RIght! Crisps, biscuits and cakes are banned from the house.

[OrmIrian]

Because whenever I buy them to go in lunchboxes they get snaffled and my older 2 DC are getting fat. They have good meals - balanced-ish and home-cooked but too much snacking on junk is causing havoc. So no more sandwiches and fruit in lunchboxes and no extras. I don't mind the off visit to the cake shop or the ice-cream van after school but nothing will be kept at home.

If they are hungry they can have cheese, ham, fruit, crackers, bread, I suspect they will find they are starving a lot less frequently than they have been.

How's that for a plan?

Thanks all.

Well they had toast last night. DS#1 made it for them all. That is quite boring no?

Plain?

Yuck no! With butter - proper butter.

You spoil those kids.

Arf

Toast with buttert is good but not if someone has a weight problem. It's still really fatty, because of the butter.

Toast with just jam would be much better, strangely.

but still, it's better than endless bags of crisps.

Well as to whether fat is better than sugar....I could argue that one. Being a low-carber of many years standing And no low-fat spread crap is being allowed in my house!

It sounds so awful to say they have a weight problem They aren't fat-fat, just carrying a little more than they were a few years ago. And I want to make sure it doesn't get worse. Am still in hope that DS#1 will shoot up like my DB did (and my DHN has just done) and lose all the fat.