I do not understand snacks

[Yellowdaffodila]

So I'm not from the UK and I hear and read about the snack thing all the time.
What is a snack? When I take my children out I'm asked to bring snacks. They will be home for food after our trip. They eat breakfast. Why a snack?

Well sometimes some people get hungry between meals and like to eat a little something to keep the hunger at bay.
Children tend to burn a lot of energy and need to refuel more often.
It's also thought to be better to eat smaller meals more frequently rather than not eating for several hours and then eating heavily 3 times a day. Although some people do prefer 3 Square meals a day.
I hope this thread has helped you to gain the understanding you need for this most important matter.

Aye right

What's pathetic is faux naivety.

@ChristmasKraken yep. Good point. I wouldn't have called a banana after the gym a snack but it is. I'm not sure what I would've called it tbh.

My DD will eat a salmon fillet, rice and veg and then say 'can I have something else' until she goes to bed. She doesn't stop. But is tiny.

At 11 months he absolutely should be having snacks - the gaps between meals will be too long at that age with a small stomach, and the dependence on milk should be reducing at this age.

Not for my son he's a boobie monster 🤣

It's part of the instant gratification culture really isn't it?

We rarely had snack between meals as kids. We waited until meal times.

We didn't have so many obese kids back then either, funnily enough.

Quite insidious really because kids, used to getting what they want whenever they want it, tend to carry that attitude over to other aspects of their lives.

Maybe they were stoned?

Course you don’t hunny 🙄 Let me guess, you’re 5 stone wet through and exist on a teeny tiny kidney bean garnished with a single herb from the mixed spices. This is enough to sustain you all day. Anything else would be positively piggy.

A snack is a small amount of food eaten between meals. A cereal bar for example. Or a piece of fruit. Something small and eaten with the hand rather than eaten off a plate or with cutlery.

It's not mandatory. If your children don't have snacks that's fine. Don't worry about it.

Maybe it’s a money thing as well? Or maybe it’s just a fat fucker thing? Just say it OP, go on you know you want to - why are all you fat bastards out there with your fat fucker kids feeding them every hour, on the hour? 😆😂🤣

What is it with all the food obsession threads on here lately?
‘I’m 6 foot 4 and 6 stone and look sooooo fat’. ‘I’m 4 foot 2 and 20 stone but I look amazing’. ‘It’s all about your BMI you know’. ‘BMI doesn’t work when you’re a rugby player’ Blah blah blah…

I had a snaccident earlier and ate a whole pack of biscuits with my tea

I blame MN as I was scrolling mindlessly reading crap that people write on here

Get away, I see plenty kids coming out of school in Sri Lanka and hanging around the local small shops buying the 'snack' size packets of sweets/savoury treats then walking home.

Or those sitting along Galle Face green eating the short eats or fried seafood from the vendors.

I live to eat so I snack every day. I'd be in a heap on the floor if I didn't. I'm also underweight but do exercise a lot

It’s not tied into that for me at all.

It’s tied into the fact that I was brought up typical 80s/ 90s style with being made to eat three square meals a day and finish my plate. I struggled to do that and would frequently be at the table hours and hours later staring with resentment at the quarter of the meal I couldn’t bring myself to finish. I dreaded meals.

As an adult I am happier and enjoy food a lot more eating whenever I feel like it in whatever quantity. So if I’m doing that for me wouldn’t it be weird to deny my DC a sandwich at 3 or 4pm and insist that they wait until 6pm and then eat everything in one go? Why would I do this when I don’t do it myself? And why would I do it myself when I’ve always been slim?

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Problem with "each to their own" is that if your kids aren't snackers, used to being offered nothing but boring toast or apples between meals at home, and you're out and about with other people who are constantly bringing out bagfuls of exciting stuff like biscuits and crisps, which they then offer to your kids, who wolf them down with glee, is that a) your kids won't then eat their nutritious dinner, and b) you look like the tight one who never brings the snacks 🤦‍♀️. It's so bloody normalised, and the processed food companies are laughing all the way to the bank.

I'm baaaaack.just asked my Sri Lankan friend.
He said fuck off with you.we eat snacks and are food lovers. Usually called short eats. Which actually is way cuter so I might adopt it.
Will I be less of a greedy,fat fucker, over weight,murdering my child penguin or kit kat, abusive, bmi boulder if I call it short eat?
Or can people just eat.
Like food.
Not make food a fucking morality issue.
Maaaaaybe this is why we have a "problem with obedity" wah wah fucking wah.