To only buy crisps and biscuits occasionally?

[JudithOnHolidayAgain]

I have two hungry teens at home and there is always fruit and a range of snacks available.
Dd is a sprinter, she has a healthy diet and rarely eats crisps or biscuits. Ds has autism and learning difficulties, he would eat a multipack of crisps in one sitting if he could but if there aren't any he eats fruit.....we go through a lot of apples and bananas!!!
If you have teens / kids do you always buy crisps and biscuits. I've heard people talk about a snack drawer or cupboard but it's never been something I've done.

I do buy crisps (posh ones obviously 😉) but the rule with biscuits is that if you want them you have to bake them. My teenagers complain that we live in an 'ingredients household'.

There is no rule that you have to buy junk food for teenagers and I can completely understand why you don't want to. I'm sure they both have plenty opportunity to get snacks elsewhere.

OMG if you want biscuits you have to make them is an amazing rule!!!! and I hope clear up after baking them is included here too.

I'm going to use this one!

Our pre-teen has his own snack basket in the cupboard with his favourite garbage in - Oreos, Haribo etc. He makes himself a pudding pot most evenings. He gets a small glass ramekin and fills it with what he fancies. He is remarkably good at moderating himself (I could take a lesson from him and his father). Otherwise, we are the sort of household that cooks from scratch every meal.

I think it’s fine to be a no junk food house. It would be my own preference, however we share my eldest with my husband’s ex and his eating habits are slightly different. Since he is good at self moderation, I don’t impose the restriction on him as it would feel like a punishment. He models healthy eating to our toddler during the day and is a lovely, active example to our youngest.

i limit my self on biscuits or chrips, as when im peckish then its omg

Why are you asking? Do you think there’s an issue with what you provide?

Ultra-processed foods ‘contribute to 18,000 early deaths a year’

https://www.thetimes.com/article/07bc898c-2408-4426-a08e-05a66af44bf6?shareToken=fa7ece3fecfbf7bddb59c61d64b624b2

For us, default snacks are fruit, nuts or yoghurt (unsweetened). Anything else is a treat.

I'm not allowed crisps or biscuits to be continually in the cupboards because I'll eat them all. I'm in my 40s so I wouldn't expect a teenager to have better willpower than me. So I agree with getting none or very few in.

Why would you be unreasonable for doing what works for your family? It’s irrelevant what other households do

We buy crisps at Christmas and maybe for birthdays. No reason to always have them around. Nuts are a healthier snack.

We have a snack drawer but it’s not crisps and biscuits. It’s stuff like crackers, breadsticks, dried fruit, rice cakes, that sort of stuff. Sometimes we will bake muffins etc to have as well.

Not sure why it would ever be unreasonable not to have biscuits and crisps in! The only time I have biscuits is when someone is coming over and I will buy some specially. If someone comes round unexpectedly they have to manage with no biscuits!

Both kids eat a tonne of fruit and other healthy snacks but are allowed one 'unheathly' thing a day (usually a biscuit or up to 5 haribo). My DS is autistic and left to his own devices would happily devour the whole box but responds well to rules and boundaries. Once he has had his one 'treat' he knows his other snacks need to be fruit or veggies and houmous etc

We’ve never been a snacking family so crisps and biscuits have always been occasion buys. I did bake more when the kids were at school though so they usually had a muffin or flapjack or something in their lunchbox. Fruit bowl was there if you really couldn’t last until the next meal. Not an especially deliberate thing but I didn’t grow up eating between meals so I guess I didn’t see the necessity of encouraging snacks that are often unhealthy anyway.

I buy one multipack of 6 packs of crisps both DC have to last the week
I stopped buying biscuits weekly ages ago for them. I buy them once every 6 weeks maybe
I do make cookies or brownies though once a month or so
as teens they can buy what they want if they want snacks though

Crisps or biscuits are a treat here. We don't buy it often.

Why do you think it might be unreasonable?

Come on, you really need advice from MN or what snacks you buy?

I buy a packet of 6 crisps and 1 packet of biscuits a week. When there gone there gone. If we are having a movie night then will buy some extra treats.

@Flossflower I seen a snippet of this on the news the other night. Do you happen to know if there's a thread on this topic?

I’m not even sure what you’re asking.
So you have a system that works well and ?

I didn't buy crisps and biscuits when I had a teen, she could have toast or cereal. She now operates the same way with her own teens although they also bake cookies or banana bread etc.

Ds is an only child and yes biscuits and crisps are available.

I was brought up having all my favourites top. In hindsight I wish I had been more strict.

Because ds now pays for his food I have very little say now he is aged 20.

We buy crisps occasionally eg at Christmas or if guests over or something. Never buy biscuits.
My kids are free to bake if they want to. They make snacks like apple and peanut butter, protein bowls with chia/yoghurt/cocoa/honey, fruit, nuts, toast, banana pancakes etc. They also do buy snacks with pocket money sometimes now that they are teenagers

Teen DC1 is autistic and food stims; unbearably hot flavours on something savoury, generally, but I have to make sure we don't buy any junk such as crisps because I don't want them to develop a taste for it.

"If you want it, bake it" wins the thread.

We always have biscuits in, crisps we don't buy all of the time.

Edited to say my baking attempt at a bournon was not pretty! 😂

We always have crisps and biscuits in. We hardly ever have to top them up though. Our kids moderate themselves (luckily). I think the fact that they’re always available means they’re just not that bothered by them. They’re not special because they’re not forbidden.