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

Shock, horror! Some people, in the UK, don't have dinner at 5 or 6pm or go to bed at 9! And there is, as unbelievable as that may be to many of small mind, nothing wrong with this.

Peanut butter is full of good fat, fibre, and other micronutrients and is a very sensible snack - "healthy" even

Also high in protein and low in sugar. I don't know why it's being vilified!

To all the —illiterate— posters who are moaning about Gryffen’s child going to bed at SHOCK HORROR 10 pm. He doesn’t go to school, he is THREE. 10 is not too late, and he gets up at 9.

To all the —illiterate— posters who are moaning about Gryffen’s child going to bed at SHOCK HORROR 10 pm. He doesn’t go to school, he is THREE. 10 is not too late, and he gets up at 9.

Cheeky so and so. Maybe we aren't illiterate at all. Maybe we know that 10pm is too late for a 3 yr old.

How can parents have any quality adult time with a 3 yr old around all evening? Is he watching Love Island as well? Or is the poster a single mum who likes company with her toddler?

How is he going to adjust to earlier bedtimes in a year?

Peanut butter is full of good fat, fibre, and other micronutrients and is a very sensible snack - "healthy" even

Peanut butter is usually made with palm oil which is not healthy. Or sunflower oil which is not healthy (too much Omega 6.)

There is no 'good fat' in peanuts. They are legumes , not nuts.

QueenoftheNights - you can buy 100% peanuts only peanut butter. Not all peanut butters are made equally!

Um, because people get up and go to bed at different times. It’s not too fucking late if you get up late and have a lovely long nap. And not all of us want to watch shite on the TV. —was that really too hard to think for yourself? —

Maybe the toddler's parents are planning to homeschool him in a year or two so don't need the child to go to bed at 7pm and wake at 5. It's not too late for a child if that child wakes later in the morning.

Our kids don't even get back from school until 7pm (France). English kids eat really really early in comparison with a lot of places. French kids are always stunned by English meal times.

As a kid growing up in the UK at 12 I ate with my parents at 8.30pm. It's always been my normal.

We generally don't have dinner until 7.30-8pm. 2 nights a week not home from work until around 6.30pm and 3 nights a week cricket or cricket training so not home until after 8. Both kids will have a snack at grandparents (youngest) or at home after school (13yo). The 13yo will usually make a sandwich or a pasta n sauce to keep him going and still manage a full tea. They are growing so fast at this age and he is by no means overweight, just go by his appetite!

There is no 'good fat' in peanuts. They are legumes , not nuts

Legumes or nuts they contain protein, micronutrients and poly/mono unsaturated fats. What on earth is wrong with peanuts?

How can parents have any quality adult time with a 3 yr old around all evening? Is he watching Love Island as well?

We managed. Sometimes they were up later, sometimes they were tired and went to bed earlier. We were also late eaters.

None had any trouble adjusting routines at different stages in life - like the clocks you do it gradually.

Love Island wasn't around then, I can't speak as to its scarring properties on 3 yr olds.

“So that might explain Bertrand's question about the difference and why some families eat dinner early and then a snack or supper later.”

I understand why people do it different ways round. I don’t understand why people think one way round is better than the other.

massive- I wasn’t questioning you- it was speakout’s post of 12.06 yesterday which said that early dinner late snack was preferable.

Wow CandyFlip there really is no need for your attitude tbh!

The difference is bertrand is that my kids are ready for a large meal when they come in from school at 4.30 pm.
Not a snack.

It suits their appetites to eat their main mean of the day at that time, and they scoff a big plateful.
I could fob them off with some snacks but they would continue to graze until dinner time because they are seriously hungry when they come in from school.

Snacks don't cut it at 4.30pm.

So when they have their supper at nine, it is not to stave off raging hunger, it's just a light intake before bed- that's all they want and need.

The difference is I am giving them a meal when they are ready for one not fobbing them off until some arbitrary time many hours away.

If I am ready and hungry enough to eat a meal I don't want to be fobbed off with a banana or a piece of toast.

Wow, candyflip you sound a peach. Either that or you need a nap or an earlier bedtime
Everyone's different, but good grief if either of mine had gone to bed at 10 pm at the age of 3 they would have been absolute nightmares! Far too late here.

And this thread has really put me in the mood for peanut butter.

I have just eaten a peanut butter and banana toastie.

Yum.

Legumes or nuts they contain protein, micronutrients and poly/mono unsaturated fats. What on earth is wrong with peanuts?

There is nothing wrong with peanut butter in moderation. I know you can buy peanut butter that is 100% peanuts. But most people won't because it's more expensive. All I am saying is that peanuts are not the best if you are wanting a healthy nut because they do have a high fat content that is mainly mono, saturated and poly. And many of the brands of peanut butter contain palm oil, sugar and salt.

That is all.

I have a 17 year old gym goer !!! Enjoy this while you can OP .. he regularly drinks 4 pints of milk in a day and a snack could be a 6 egg omlette !! ..

QueenoftheNights

I have just checked my jar of peanut butter.

98% peanuts, 2% sunflower oil. Zero sugar, Zero fat.

I think I must live on a different planet if people think that peanut butter cannot form part of a healthy diet.

Yabu, we often didn't eat until 8 (or sometimes even 9pm) and I was absolutely ravenous as a teen, so I would have a snack of a similar size (and still be hungry)

When we had dinner at five or six I was fine. It got to the point when I was around 12 that I started making my own tea as soon as I got home from school because I couldn't wait so long to eat.

Then I'd have to clean up the kitchen and then do my homework. By that time it could be 9pm if I'd been in after school club and I'd be shattered and nearly ready for bed.

I was 8 stone at 13 btw, so not exactly overweight.

What are you doing eating so late? No wonder he's hungry.

To all the —illiterate— posters who are moaning about Gryffen’s child going to bed at SHOCK HORROR 10 pm. He doesn’t go to school, he is THREE. 10 is not too late, and he gets up at 9.

Think you'll find Gryffen's DC is a girl. Ha ha, illiterate indeed.