Snacks!

[bumblebee39]

To think they are basically unneeded and a modern invention to make us spend money?

I rarely snack, but my older DC "expects" snacks between meals, especially when she comes out of school, and these are often basically an extra meal.

I think I spend half our food budget on snacks for the kids. Both are fairly slim and quite tall but are they actually hungry or am I just being duped?

Tia xx

My doesn’t have snacks at all, unless lunch/dinner is late for some reason. She’s on 25th centile which she has been since birth. Snack are 100% not necessary. Feeling hunger isn’t going to harm your child, giving them an unhealthy relationship with food and an inability to go for longer than a couple of hours without food is.

*My dd

No worries I think you meant me too! It's a tough one as you're trying to balance out healthy nutrition when she obv just wants what everyone else is having.

I think that's it at @adaline

She comes out actually hungry, but is also obsessed with "snack foods" which have been advertised very effectively to her age group so she wants those foods but the hunger is real.

I'm going to try taking a sandwich from now on.

It does seem like those lunches must be really small but I'm sure they were meant to be extra satiating for kids who were not being fed well out of school? I'm sure that was the argument for universal school meals..

A couple of years ago I saw the portion size of her nursery cooked lunch and was baffled... It made sense of her hunger! Those portions were tiny compared To what she gets at home, she'll eat an adult sized roast dinner for example X