What snacks do you buy for your kids weekly?

[heartbroken22]

?? I think we're snacking too much and need to cut down

Mini cheddars
kallo mini choc rice cakes
fruit yo-yos
custard creams/bourbons
fruit
cereal
toast/wraps
homemade smoothie

I try to buy a variety of things, healthy and not so healthy. I had a parent with a severe eating disorder and banned foods (some of which I still can't bring myself to eat years later) so am trying to teach DC that everything is fine in moderation. A usual week is;

Raspberries
Strawberries
Bananas
Ice lollies
Popcorn
Salt & vinegar crisps
Cucumber with houmous
A cake or biscuits
Jelly sweets

For us all to share.

We have to buy something useful for the children, sometimes we buy rice chips

I buy a tub of icecream for my 16 year old. There are also nuts, greek yogurt, fruit.

Mine doesn't eat much snack, but he has dessert after dinner every day. So we always have cups of chocolate mousse, cheese cakes etc, several kinds of ice creams in the fridge/freezer. I also make cakes etc often, so he eats them if I made any.

Snacks for my adult children for when they pop in -

Eldest likes there to be Walnut whips or a chocolate orange
Next one likes there to be a tub of homemade hummus always available so she can always have poached eggs and hummus on toast
Next one likes a selection of Markies biscuits
Next one likes dim sum I buy frozen and quickly sort out for her
Last one is severely disabled and lives with me and he likes a wee tin of soft drink and a biscuit.

My many grandchildren when at my house like to chose between the following.

Sushi
Popcorn
Crisps/Nacho things
Fruit
Ice cream
Biscuits
Cake
Guacamole
Salsa
Dates

Fruit
Mini babybels
Dairylea or Aldi equivalent dunkers
Apple covered in chocolate - they are always in stock lately
Nuts
DD likes banana bread also so I make that a fair bit but put pistachios and dark chocolate chips in
Yoghurts

Crisps, pickled onion monster munch are his favourite at the moment, his breath smells wonderful after those. Oreos, popcorn, dairy free digestives, chocolate ones obviously.

@JellyBellyNelly

Your snacks sound amazing

Well they’re cheaper than seaweed. 😂

My dd loves seaweed from the Chinese. I got her the m and s one in a little red pot. Omg it's vile. Just tastes like bad fish. And it's in squares not shredded

Yogurts
Strawberries
Raspberries
Grapes
Mini cheddars biscuit dupes
Pepperoni stick dupes
Baby bel
A couple of bags of crisps
All weekly

I'm the snack bit*h in this house

I swear they're all asking for a snack every 15 mins & they also eat 3 meals a day asking for seconds 🥲 my 3 yo has 2 breakfasts every morning then asks for snacks 1 hour later Luckily for them they inherited their dad's metabolism and not mine 😂

1yo/ 3yo/ 5 yo

They eat anything from chopped fruit- hummus &veg - yogurts to crisps/ biscuits/ and all the naughty stuff 😵

Thank you. I think it’s only because there’s so many of the blighters there’s quite a long list so they all have something.

I still make myself laugh though when I go round to see my children and the first thing I do is open their fridge door and kind of hang on it with one hand and rummage around (their full fridge ) with the other whilst saying - have you not been shopping yet. 😂

Crisps, biscuits, yogurts, cakes, popcorn, cheese strings, chicken fridge raider things, pepperamis, Babybels, cheese dippers. When they've had enough crap and are still asking for food I make them have a banana or chop up some grapes, strawberries, raspberries etc.

Every week I buy a bunch of bananas, a bag of apples (or occasionally, pears), bread, cheese, yoghurt and some cereal bars.
Often I buy crumpets or bagels.
I buy a lot of ice lollies or ice cream in hot weather.

We always have peanut butter, marmite and and jam in the cupboard, and often honey and chocolate spread too.

dc1 likes granola or muesli as a snack, sometimes cheese, nuts or pumpkin seeds, occasionally a mug of hot chocolate.

dc2 will usually choose a flavoured yoghurt or bread and jam, or an ice lolly if available.

If you choose to have a sweet snack between meals, you can then have fruit or cheese and biscuits for pudding after dinner, but not another sweet thing.

Carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, baby plum tomatoes, satsumas, plums, apricots, grapes, strawberries.

They get enough fat and protein from their meals.

I posted on another post what we do to help with the constant asking so I've just copied and pasted it below. It works for us

"A good solution I used last summer and will again this year is at the beginning of every day let them choose their daily snacks. They choose one fruit, one crunchy (crisps, popcorn, mini cheddars etc) and one sweet (little packet of biscuits) and fill up a water bottle for them.

Then they can have those at any time in the day without asking.

At first they will eat it all straight away and the you have to listen to them asking all day for more, but if you stick to it and don't give them more then after a few days mine saved bits for the afternoon without being told to.

This year I'm going to let them have 1 icelolly a day too without having to ask.

It gives them some control and power and I found it really helped them to regulate themselves."

There’s some really unhealthy things on here which no one (and rightly so!) has issue with. The post is asking what snacks your DC have.

A seaweed cracker and a cup of soup however attracts attacks.

How is that different to having things like gyozas etc?

Also, the ‘I’m a normal parent’ comments are so petty.

Where are the attacks? Bit dramatic 😂

Oh for goodness sake, lighten up!! It wasn't an attack, have you got no sense of humour?! I just thought it sounded funny. Seaweed and bullion are not 'normal' snacks are they? It made me chuckle that's all!

I wasn’t referencing your post, although I can’t understand why several posters seized on the cracker - it’s not literal seaweed (there’s seaweed in the cracker) and a cup of broth/soup.

I agree I’d find it funny if my DC asked me for a cup of soup/broth/bouillon but I don’t judge for it even in a ‘jokey’ way.

Far better than a sugary snack imo!

Three teenage boys here. One has spinach smoothies 🤢 and the rest eat all the bananas, rice cakes, popcorn, chocolate crepes, strawberries, chunks of cucumber, toasted sandwiches, like variations of the very hungry caterpillar.

This is why the seaweed was picked up on, the poster didn't write 'seaweed cracker'.

Sweets, chocolate, crisps they live fruit with greek yoghurt and honey. As well as all the crap.
Oh love cucumber and tomatoes but yeah mainly the crap