What sort of snacks do you keep in the house?

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I'm asking because my DC aged 14 and 10 are always complaining there's nothing to eat.

We have three meals a day and there is always a variety of fruit, crackers and cheese, bread, peanut butter and jam and usually some nuts.

About once a week I will buy a tub of icecream and I bake about twice a week. That means there's muffins or cake on 2 out of 7 days on average.

I buy biscuits very occasionally and same with crisps...probably about twice a month and it will be two normal packets.

Any things like biscuits/crisps/icecream is eaten within 2 days and I don't see why I should buy it all the bloody time if they're going to scoff it at that rate.

AIBU to only provide things like fruit and the odd peanut butter sandwich or toast? They're both slim to skinny but if I bought them icecream and biscuits at the rate they eat them they wouldn't be.

I don't tend to buy anything unless I specifically want something sweet/savoury that day, except for things like cherry tomatoes, celery, peanut butter, etc.

DP has

Crisps
Nuts
Biscuits
Cakey things
Pastry things
Cheese slices
Cocktail sausages, sausage rolls, mini pork pies
Haribo

It's sooo unfair that I'm the lardarse when, if he had his way, he'd exist almost entirely upon those rather than proper meals - and yes, I will grumble that there's nothing to eat when I go to the fridge/cupboards only to find utter shit, rather than Food.

I do think that your DCs' complaint is more that 'there is no junk we want to eat right now', rather than there not being more than enough food and snacks available, although what you have does tend towards the carby side and they might be craving more protein, such as cold meats/hummus/hard boiled eggs and veg.

You could try finding out exactly what it is that they want and see whether it could be more protein or just general crap that they're after and then make a final decision.

I have two DC nearly 8 and 2 I buy the 2 for £3 snacks they do in Morrisons, usually mini cheese and onion rolls and scotch eggs. I usually make a little plate up each of 2 of each one and a chopped apple or orange segments for them to have when we get in from school run.

That’s usually the extent of snacks really, they both have porridge, cereal or toast for breakfast oldest has packed lunch of sandwich, crisps, yogurt, fruit and raisins and youngest will eat some of whatever I’m having for lunch at home.

They have the snack as soon as we get in from school and then tea for 5.30pm. I usually do a supper of glass of milk and one of whatever I’ve baked that week (I usually make my own peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookies to keep costs down) they have that before bed.

If they want anything else then they can have fruit or piece of toast, raisins etc. I don’t buy anything else as they have big meal portions of healthy food and there’s always a full fruit bowl, bread in the freezer or breadsticks in the cupboard.

School holidays are a nightmare though lol! My eldest just wants to eat crap every minute of every day, the nagging drives me nuts and if I’d let him he’d just eat the whole packet of things in one go! So therefore crisps are only for packed lunch or with lunch at home.

None whatsoever.. I'm a compulsive over eater: I absolutely cannot be around snacks

Fruit yoyo's
Nakd bars
Mini Cheddar's
Yogurts
Wafer thin ham
Usually buy couple of baguettes a week to have a chunk off in passing.

To be honest my kids aren’t big snackers. We have a one biscuit a day rule and unlimited fruit. If anyone is particlarly hungry they can knock themselves out with toast, peanut butter, crackers, cheese, hummus and the like. If we are having a movie night we might have some sharing crisps or some nuts or a chocolate orange.

DH is the biggest snacker in our house because he trains a lot and struggles to get enough calories in at mealtimes but his snacks are relatively healthy.

We always have chocolate and crisps in the house.we have crisps with sandwiches for lunch in the week anyway.

Sometimes there's biscuits, always bread for toast and cereal etc.

We usually always have nuts,seeds,hummus,baby peppers,baby cuecumbers,celery,melons,bananas,apples,red and green grapes,satsumas,nectarines,blackberries or strawberries,bagels,croissants,toasting muffins,crumpets,brown and white bread,things like jam,marmalade,marmite,honey,peanut butter,nutella,several types of cereal,yogurts,babybel cheeses,cheese spread,boursin,mature cheese,cream crackers and seeded ryvita,all of those get used as snacks/parts of meals(breakfasts,lunches,packed lunches)treat bits we have are crisps,biscuit bars,pink n whites,biscuits(some of those get used for packed lunches now and again)and anything I make(today it was macaroni cheese followed by banana and chocolate cake)scones,cheese scones,cheese straws,sausage rolls,fairy cakes,butterfly cakes,shortbread,flapjacks.I love baking but it is alot harder than buying it ready made because the homemade stuff tends to be gone within one day.

My parents never policed snacks for me or my 2 brothers and neither did my DH's parents with him and none of us go mad when it comes to sweet treats or junk food.

You’ve made an issue with there being Good and bad foods, there is no such thing, everything in moderation.

I don't buy snacks because I work from home and it's too easy to eat them.

If my 16 year old wants a snack he eats bread with Nutella or jam, or breakfast cereal, or plain yoghurt with honey. He sometimes makes pancakes for himself, or I'll make them for us.

We always had unhealthy snacks in as a kid and portions were moderated (a cake, a certain amount of sweets, never ever more than one small bag of crisps a day, two biscuits, that kind of thing) but because they were always available we never went mad. Nor did we spend all our pocket money on sweets on the way home like our friends with stricter parents. Tbh my siblings and I were just as likely to have a handful of nuts, a slice of cheese, or a bowl or cereal. Novelty is what makes the things disappear so quickly!

Rice cakes, crackers, oatcakes, raisins
Bananas, grapes, berries
Cooked chicken, ham, cheese, peanut butter, tuna

no bread cakes or biscuits me and dp dont tend to eat many snacks but if we do its fruit yoghurt or if very hungry have a bowl of cereal usually porridge

I have to have loads of snacks in the house due to my DS2 (age 11) having type 1 diabetes. But my eldest is 12 and is growing at a rate of knots, so he eats a lot and I also have a less bothered 8 year old. We have in the house:
Bread
Bagels
Hot cross buns
Jam/chocolate spread/peanut butter/marmite
Cheese
Hummus
Breadsticks and veg to make crudités (very popular with the hummus)
Crackers
Crisps (2 flavours)
Multigrain snacks (like crisps but not)
Rice cakes
Biscuits
Healthy cereal bars (they disappear too quickly though)
Fruit
A couple of packets plain biscuits.

My kids are all fairly sensible though. Most of them have a snack when they get in, and another snack before bed (as well as one to take to school). I have a lot of stuff, but I’ve found with a bigger choice the kids mainly eat the healthy stuff, as they are all sensible.

I’ve put biscuits twice by mistake. We do usually have 2 packets though...

You’ve made an issue with there being Good and bad foods, there is no such thing, everything in moderation

No I haven't. I've never called them "treats" or naughty or any of that crap. I just point out that these things are expensive (which they are in Australia where we live) and that they're not every day items.

We are currently keeping Fibre One in business, we have loads of their cake bars in the pantry along with Alpen Light bars, crisps, cheese triangles, ham, flakes, 10 kcal jellies. I follow slimming world as do my 2 eldest so they’re things we can have as well

I don't buy any shit food in weekly shopping at all. There is fruit, natural yogurt, crackers, cheese, bread sticks. I might bake scones it cheese muffins they mostly eat fruit.
Treats are for actual treats imo and not to be had every day.

I have a cupboards full of all types of snacks, chocolate and sweets are never policed.
I also keep ice cream, fruit, crackers, bread, noodles, cliced bread, jams, peanut butter etc.
My kids almost always head for the fruitbowl.
he last tub of vanilla ice cream was only have eaten and I threw it out after a couple of months.

My kids ( older now) hardly eat sweet foods, I think policing them can make them more attractive.

I do the same as you op. We have things like oat cakes, peanut butter, fruit, sometimes dried mango, nuts. I will occasionally buy a tub of ice cream or some nice cake at the weekend.