To not carry about endless snacks and things for my DC?

[AwfulMaureen]

I seem to be seeing an awful lot of parents with snacks in bags....I remember that I did do that a bit when the children were tiny...as in under 3...and their meal times weren't always regular. But now they are 9 and 6 I don't...however I see that the parents of their friends have things in their bags all the time....bags of cheese or chocolate bars...cartons of juice etc. This is not for long gaps between meals whilst waiting for swimming lessons or anything...it's constantly!

Walking about town with a friend and her bag is full of bloody food! Her son is NINE...surely he can wait a couple of hours?

[ThoughtsPlease]

Awful so eggs don't fill you up, but you were pondering whether they were a good choice for breakfast for someone else to fill them up so they didn't need to snack a few hours later.

This is only a logical ponder if you accept that people have different requirements from food.

Yet this post is appears to be how you don't understand how people could possibly have different food requirements food.

[AwfulMaureen]

thoughts I was talking about children....and since when was pondering logical? By it's very nature, a ponder must not follow any set path but must meander...thinking out loud.

You do seem obsessed with the eggs though.

[MoominsYonisAreScary]

What happens when they go to school and they have to eat at set times? Or have they grown out of eating all morning or having to eat at 11 by then?

[WorraLiberty]

That's absolutely what I wonder too.

How will constantly fed children manage their hunger at school?

How will an adult who constantly feeds themselves, manage in a job where you can only eat during a tea or lunch break?

That's a genuine question btw.

[Bodicea]

Have you read French children don't throw food.
Very interesting. Compares the the endless snacks
Carried around by English and Americans to the French way of three meals a day and an afternoon scack but nothing else.

[andsmile]

my ds school served toast and bagels with jam on at 'firt playtime' for 20p

my ds doesnt bother with this.

he has sausage or egg plus toast sometimes will have a banana too.

he eats all his packed lunch inc a sandwich made with one slice the rest is fruit, veg, yoghurt. school meals shocking always pizza, wedges beans is a runnig joke as he has dinners once a week.

[andsmile]

sausages etc for breakfast

[MoominsYonisAreScary]

Worra was thinking the same, ive never had a job where i could eat at set times (carer/nurse) some days you were lucky if you got to eat once in 12 hours.

[ThoughtsPlease]

Awful so eggs don't fill you up, but you were pondering whether they were a good choice for breakfast for someone else to fill them up so they didn't need to snack a few hours later.

This is only a logical ponder if you accept that people have different requirements from food.

Yet this post is appears to be how you don't understand how people could possibly have different food requirements food.

[GertTheFlirt]

People eat through boredom, not because they are hungry.

Done to death but people eating incessantly in the pictures. Slurp. Chomp. Munch. Fuck sakes, its 90 fucking minutes!

[ThoughtsPlease]

Awful I understand pondering, but for me logic would quickly discount certain thoughts if my brain already knew I had a view on them that made my pondering illogical. Otherwise it's a waste of energy.

Oh yes I am obsessed with eggs.

[OhMerGerd]

I don't think it's got anything to do with children 'listening to their bodies and eating to satify hunger' etc. It's just the same phenomenon as leaving the TV on to keep them quiet. It's an appeasement parenting technique.
Children need to learn a little self discipline and respect for people, places and 'the moment'.
My DSis is regularly handing bits of sausage, cheese, biscuit, juice, water etc to DN in church, shops, cinema, plays (even half way through her own party while the entertainers entertained and DN kicked off about wanting a snack ...no other child hit one..shakes head).
It keeps a whining child quiet but really they should be taught the words no, be quiet, sit still etc depending on the appropriate situation.

[eurochick]

Fiscal and Leech, I'm the same. In my case it's related to PCOS. I used to struggle to make it through 3 hr exams as a teen.

Eating a lower GI diet definitely helps as it keeps the blood sugar more stable but it doesn't cure it. Insulin is a hormone so if you have an endocrine condition everything ends up out of whack.

But even I can cope with some hunger to wait for a meal if one is on the horizon. I do carry snacks with me if I am e.g. out shopping as I wouldn't feel safe to drive home if I was shaky, etc.

However I do marvel at the way some people constantly snack- kids dropping crumbs all over the train on a short journey, people standing in the station on their way home (presumably for dinner) feeding their faces with chocolate. It seems unnecessary.

[PossumPoo]

It isn't so much about the food people eat but the lack of exercise that makes people fat. If your DC needs snacks, you're happy to take them and they get plenty of exercise then that should be good enough.

[Sirzy]

DS is 4 and I have never really carried snacks around for him. He may occasionally grab some fruit mid afternoon but other than that he doesn't really snack. Certainly isn't constantly eating like some children seem to be

[georgesdino]

Surely most parents do it as its cheaper than buying it out?

[WorraLiberty]

Yes but the point is, why do you need to buy it out?

Why if your child is eating 3 meals per day, can they not go out for a couple of hours without food?

Unless like OhMerGerd said, it's an appeasement parenting technique.

And if it is, will it produce one of the thousands of adults on the weight loss threads who can't kick the habit of comfort eating?

[georgesdino]

I suppose with mine they dont always eat 3 meals a day. They just have a little snacky lunch.

[TheUnemployableLeech]

Do you mind me asking what time you eat then worra ? Because it's more than a couple of hours between meals surely?

[Catsmamma]

imo it's all to do with the fact that no one wants to say "no!" to their children anymore.

we're not grazers, and i am always amazed at the grazing and snacking that goes on

[WorraLiberty]

Of course it's more than a couple of hours between meals?

[TheBigBumTheory]

They shouldn't be hungry for say two hours after a meal, then they can be hungry for two hours until the next. They'll have a good appetite, eat well and food tastes better when you're hungry.

[TheUnemployableLeech]

And in the other two hours before the next meal?

[WorraLiberty]

Have a drink of water or get on and do something interesting?

[Sirzy]

I do think a lot of hunger comes from boredom and by just giving food it reinforces the idea they must be hungry