How many snacks do your older kids eat

[Foodie731]

I have 2 kids age 7 and 10. My eldest is obsessed with unhealthy snacks. I understand he's a growing boy, although he's very small at the moment, but he wants junk food all of the time.
How many uhealthy snacks do you allow your kids to eat each day? I want to restrict him but don't know whether I should be prohibiting it completely or allowing one a day or just at weekends?
I don't have a good relationship with food and I don't want my son to follow my path.

One 'treat' snack after school.

Maybe a couple each day on the weekend.

We don't really have it in the house though so it's easy to not have it iyswim?

It's not a hard and fast rule though, relatively flexible as long as.most of what they eat is healthy.

DD has a snack a day.
She won't eat fruit but has lots of vegetables with every meal, she loves them!!

I should say, they snack constantly, but it's fruit/toast/cereal the rest of the time. Only one 'treat' a day.

I'd say they were younger children rather than older children.

At that age my dc took one fruit to school as did everyone. They had their dinner at between five and six and if they had an activity after school they would have a snack after that but otherwise they didn't have snacks.

Now they are starving teenagers and both take two snacks to school every day. One fruit and something else. A biscuit, piece of cake, packet of crisps. One of those not all of them.

Then when they get home from school they have a cup of tea and a biscuit and we have dinner about seven.

Make up a basket at the start of the week...when it's gone it's gone...

I've just made up a basket each with 7 things in to last a week. Will see if that works.

I don't buy in extra snacks but what happens is he eats the things I've bought for my daughters school lunch, so a bag or Crisps or a Cereal bar. I will buy 5 items for her school week and by Tuesday he's eaten them all

None at all (depending on definition). A biscuit occasionally or home made cake. Sweets on a Sunday.
What do you mean by " unhealthy snacks" though? People have different definitions.

@Foodie731

I've just made up a basket each with 7 things in to last a week. Will see if that works.

I don't buy in extra snacks but what happens is he eats the things I've bought for my daughters school lunch, so a bag or Crisps or a Cereal bar. I will buy 5 items for her school week and by Tuesday he's eaten them all

I think the problem with that is more lack of respect for other people's things than how many snacks he is eating.

What are the consequences for taking her lunch things?

In the week she gets fruit at morning break and a healthy snack at after-school club.

At the weekend she might have two unhealthy snacks a day, sometimes one is healthy or some days she just has her meals.

We made sure she had two snacks a day till she was 5 but now she's older she can sometimes go longer without food and just eats bigger portions at mealtimes. She's 7.

My daughter did go through a phase of constantly asking for more food after big meals and snacks so we had a of raw vegetable sticks (carrots etc) in the fridge she could help herself to anytime.

We have a similar problem. My kids are on two snacks a day, one can be a treat item. They also have freedom to eat as much fruit as they like from the fruit bowl.
If my eldest is still hungry after healthy meals, I tell her she can have fruit or yoghurt, sometimes breadsticks or a supper of cereal. She has a very sweet tooth but I’ve explained that it’s not healthy to eat too much sugar and snacks. However, if she’s genuinely hungry then I want her to be able to carry on eating rather than saying no (after all she may be having a growth spurt!)… hence the offer of further healthy food.
It’s working so far

It all depends, they’re allowed as much fruit and veg as they please but sweet treats are limited as we don’t want them to to get unhealthy. We are a bit more relaxed over the weekend but still have to keep an eye on the pork pies or the youngest will guzzle them

Fresh fruit is limited to 2 pieces after tea, they have a pudding and yogurt after too.
I no longer allow grazing throughout the day as it's not great for their teeth so it's all packed in around 3 feed times. If we go out for the day we will allow treats between meals but that's not often.

I eat a lot less fruit these days too, not had a negative impact.