Is this too much for a snack?

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My 12 years old gets home from school and has 3/4 Krisprolls with lots of honey and peanut butter and 2 small glasses of milk. This is around 4 pm. We have dinner around 8. Is this too much? I know he is growing and his weight is fine but I am a bit concerned. Can mums of teens on Mumsnet give me some perspective? Told him off today for having a second glass of milk and hated myself after. Don't like controlling what he eats but it seems excessive for a snack

Sounds fine to me, he probably needs more rather than less OP, I certainly wouldn't worry.

To be fair to @gryffen we don't know the portion sizes of the 3 year old. If it's like, 2 pieces of pineapple, 2 apple slices.. 4 chips, 2 cucumber sticks, etc. then it's hardly more than a much older child would eat as some people have said.

@LovingLola
Your 3 yr old is having far, far too much sugar.

Squash, orange juice, gingerbread, all that fruit (i'ts high in sugar) and goodness knows what else.
Raw veg is better than all the fruit and she doesn't seem to have much 'proper food' it's all snacks.

What's wrong with 3 meals a day and a tiny snack in between breakfast and teatime?

I'm going to weigh 10g of peanut butter when I get home...

sorry that was @gyrffen

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My 5 year old eats more than that when he gets in !! It's fine OP really .

This is a great contrast to the threads where fully grown adult women have a sniff of coffee for breakfast, a salad for lunch and can’t possibly manage dinner cos they’re still stuffed.

That's a pre snack snack for my teen, and I don't ration milk. I think YABU sorry.

Unless he has a weight issue surely you shouldn't be trying to micromanage what he eats. Just provide healthy food and he should decide how much he eats - when he's in a growth spurt or has been more active he'll need loads other times less.

I think you should offer something like wholemeal bread, plain scones, fruit buns, sandwich with some meat or cheese, etc instead of Krispywhatsit- never heard of them.

8pm is far too late for a 12 yr old. If he is doing homework before then he will need feeding for brain energy and ideally not gallons of sugary honey.

I don't think I am controlling. At meal time he helps himself to however much he wants. I tend to keep an eye on food that I think is not very healthy as I know if I've let them they would happily fill up on sugary foods and bread. And I don't think people should eat peanut butter by the spoonful. And I tell him that eating too much fatty or sugary food is not good for him. I think we need to teach kids to make better choices. But I get that he needs more calories than me so I will try to encourage him to add a banana to his snack or other fruit instead of piling up on honey and peanut butter.

You sound very very controlling with food, policing what he eats, rationing peanut butter and milk. That is seriously warped.

To be fair if he loves peanut butter I’d stop having honey in the house. There is no need to have both. If he likes easy portable food then even swapping the Krisprolls with Melba toasts might reduce his intake.

Queen, the Krisprolls are wholemeal bread. Toasted so they are like Italian biscotti. But sweet. He sometimes has wholemeal toast. But he likes a sweet snack and I don't have a problem. It's the squirting honey on top of loads of peanut butter that worry me.

You sound very very controlling with food, policing what he eats, rationing peanut butter and milk. That is seriously warped

Agree with this

• not sweet instead of but sweet.

"It's the squirting honey on top of loads of peanut butter that worry me." What's your specific worry?

Teen and a pre teen here, both boys.
They'd literally whine they were being starved if I did tea at 8, that seems late to to me so the snack sounds fine.
When you say roll, do you mean like a bread roll? Not heard of that name before.
Honestly don't know where they put half their food, but if they're active and growing and not overweight they need their grub.

I buy huge bags for grated cheeses for them to sprinkle on wraps, over baked beans before popping under the grill, on baked potatoes (I buy the frozen ones). There's fruit, nut butters, tuna, deli meats, those 'fridge raider' type meats, pepperami sticks, cream cheese, yoghurts and bready stuff like crumpets and bagels. DD is underweight but she does make herself a smoothie with banana, chocolate protein powder, and MILK if she fancies it in her smoothie maker.

My worry? Diabetes, heart disease, etc. Eating habits start early.
But I see that my boy is growing up into a hungry teenager and I need to adapt to this new phase. And appetite

gryffen 10pm bed? Seems very late for any child let alone a toddler

OP genuinely asking, what’s the problem with drinking lots of milk?

I'm going to weigh 10g of peanut butter when I get home... surely peanut butter is measured by the spoonful. Well it is when I’m eating it anyway

I haven't even had my dinner yet! Haven't even started cooking!

I just don't get home til 7.30 lol

10pm bed? Seems very late for any child let alone a toddler

Mine are primary school age and wouldn't be able to get up for school if they went to bed at 10pm!

Krisprolls just look like a biscotti.

So he had 2 biscotti with spread and a glass of milk and then more milk, in between his lunch at around 1 and dinner at 8?

I'd have eaten more than that at his age, though can you not provide him with more protein rich/vitamin rich snacks like eggs w veg?