Astrophe bodies comes in many shapes and body wise, life is extremely unfair.
I have two sons, they eat exactly the same thing, DS2 is extremely muscly , DS1 is soft. DS2 excels at sports because he has this body, not that he has this body because of the sport, DS1 does boxing, running, surfing and still is soft (if he reads this he will kill me). DS1 does tons of abs and you cannot see them, DS2 had a huge 6 packs since he was 3. DS1 is 12, and I can see some of the softness slowly turning into muscles with the puberty kicking in, but it had nothing to do with diet or sport.
I repeat they eat exactly the same thing, or if I really wanted to be fair, I would say DS2 likes to eat my baking chocolate. I only buy full fat milk, DS2 has almost a liter per day.
Eating breakfast or not eating breakfast is one of the many myths. Eating early, eating late is another. We eat between 7.30 - 8, and before moving here in Australia, we were living in Barcelona and dinner was around 8.30 - 9 .
Having said that, here are some other snack ideas.
(( But can I just say one last word about the snacks? I am French, DH is Italian and we have lived in many countries, but never have I seen people eating all the time, while walking, driving, playing, at the pool, beach, library.... . And if it is not eating it is drinking liquid breakfast, smoothies, milkshakes, flavored sweet milk, ....
In my house, you only eat at the dinning table or in the kitchen. Not in the rooms, lounges, definitely not in my car, walking, shops, ...... This snacking thing is non-sense to me. The kids have a snack after school, but it will never come out of a wrapping paper. Arrive home, wash hands, sit down, eat , wash hands again and start homework or get changed for the activity. ))
So, try to limit the snack to one per day, mid afternoon. I understand, it is an habit you get, such as my habit of sipping coffee while MNetting .On weekends, my kids have breakfast and then nothing till lunch. At school DS1 has nothing for what is called here morning tea, DS2 has an apple. After school snack is usually fruit (berries, strawberries, banana, mango, watermelon, pear, grapes....) sometimes put on a skewer, sometimes just cut. From time to time, if I go to the French bakery they will have a petit pain au chocolat. If they have a playdate, there will be crepes, cake or focaccia.
Then, nothing. Just water after sport . Even if they were to open cupboard and fridge, they would´t find much to eat as it is. Plenty of cheese, tomatoes in all shapes and sizes, salmon, and whatever cooked veg there is . Cold cauliflower, green beans, spinach...
I have cut all processed meats since the WHO announcement about the cancerogenicity level, so I only have some Italian Prosciutto I use from time to time in recipes, but I used to have turkey breast slices and my kids just loved a slice with mustard, salad and rolled such as a sushi roll.
What about having some cold roast chicken.
Change the bread you are using. I buy a ciabatta kind, you can´t really gorge on that one. And I keep it frozen. We don´t put bread at the dinning table any more. When we first arrived here, I used to buy this toast bread, and my kid would just go wild and could easily eat 4 slices each.
The only cereals I have are weetabix. Not something very tasty out of a box.
Every evening we have a couple of salads. Their favorite right now, is 8 sliced tomatoes, half a big brown onion or a whole small one sliced, 12 - 15 basil leaves, crystal salt, plenty of pepper , olive oil. Leave 5 minutes for the tomatoes to juice, add some chopped parsley, hand the salad bowl and watch them devour it. Sometimes, to this I add 3 tins of high quality tuna and that´s their lunch .
Very finely cut fennel and slices of cucumber with two table spoons of parsley is another favorite here. Or finely cut celery with the juice of a fat orange, salt, pepper, olive oil , sometimes I add cooked prawns and pieces of pineapple to this one.
Green beans are a very nice snack. Sometimes they dip them oil and salt, or mustard vinaigrette or even some home made caesar sauce. They quite love spinach salad too. Cook them, drain it very well with a fork in a mesh strainer, put in fridge, when cold, sparkle salt and pepper, oil, mix, they love it.
I also buy these spices from Germany www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dgrocery&field-keywords=Knorr+Salat+Kronung for when I don´t have basil, parsley (I buy the curly one and the very same day I buy it, I chop it and put in the freezer. When I need it, I just use a pointed knife to "stab" the pot, and use the amount I want and back in the freezer.)
They quite like the taste of radicchio and I do red radicchio nests . Carefully remove the radicchio leaves one at the time without breaking them. Cut small dices of fennel, cucumber, celery and tomatoes, mix them with spices, salt , pepper, olive oil and fill each slice of radicchio. I very often serve them with cold boiled cod (the frozen kind from the supermarket) or mix the cod straight away with the veg.
Enough, You must have fallen asleep by now bored to death.
The point is there is no trick and the big food company have invested millions to have our kids hooked on crappy snack and processed meals. It takes a lot of work and energy to break this. And you are now pregnant. When DS2 was born with the most horrendous reflux and the only thing he did was crying , vomiting, chocking, DS1 had several bread+nutella dinner. Oh gosh I just realized, his softness is my fault I guess!!!!
No need of drastic measures or revolution OP. One small change per week. And make them for the whole family, skinny not skinny. In the long run it is about health not weight.