Do you children eat you out of house and home after school? Mine do.

[SPARKLER1]

DD (6) has only been in from school for half an hour - already she has demolished:

• a hot cross bun
• TWO toasted crumpets
• packet of mini snack-a-jacks

and I'm sure there will be room for more. LOL!

Mine are the same!

So far they've had
2slices toast and jam/marmalade
apple and banana each
bag of crisps
yoghurt

DS,6 has his nose in the fridge as we speak, looking for something else!!!

yes mine do and it drives me mad

they will finish tea and be about to have their bath and dd and ds will ask for apples, bananas, chocolate, crisps etc. and they've just bloody eaten gggrrr

don't know where it all goes because they are as thin as beanpoles

oh sorry didn't see the after school bit

mine have demolished a large fruit scone each and an apple so far but I'll probably hold off on anything else as I need to do tea in a minute

Sallystraawberry they make my life hell if I don't give them a snack. Tea isn't normally until about 6pm anyway so they need to have something before.

A bit different but my dss (he's 17) has just come in from school and eaten 11, yes 11 hash brown things. However I don't mind because as I explained to him, he bought them so he can gorge on them. I would rarely, if ever buy that type of rubbish so he buys it himself from his wages. FYI I do provide him with an incredibly healthy and varied diet the rest of the time

carmenere!! he's obviously a growing lad!!

what drives me most mad is breakfast. I just cannot do enough food quick enough in the morning - I think if I let them, they'd still be eating about an hour after school had started.

DD is now drinking a large beaker full of chocolate milkshake - where do they put it all? She has got to go to rainbows tonight until about 7.30pm so we shall have tea even later tonight.

yes breakfast time can be like that here too. Make their cereals, two bowls full sometimes, and then they say I'm stiiiiiiiiiiiiill hungry.
End up giving them yoghurt and toast as well.

What will they be like when they are older? shock]

Guess, I shouldn't be grumbling. Some parents struggle to get the children to eat anything at all. I'd rather my dds eat as they are.

hopefully earning their own way for extra food like carmenere's boy!

Absolutely Sparkler, I know the trauma some parents go through trying to get their off spring to eat, we are lucky

Interesting...I used to do this as a child, because school dinners were inadequate.
My children got home dinners (village school, home for lunch), and they werent interested in food at 4pm.
I couldnt believe it!