Tips on stopping snacking

[YearningForAWinteryWinter]

My meals are healthy but I'm overweight because I can't stop snacking. It's not often on junk but on things like cheese and crackers, homemade cake, bread or cereal.
All high carb stuff.
I can't seem to stop though and need to lose 2 stone.
Any tips please?

I found two things helped not having it in the house (tend to choose snacks dc will like), we make less frequenly than we did, smaller quantities of cakes /flapjack as a treat. Also intermittent fasting which was difficult the first two weeks until I got into it and now I'm just not hungry (I think this depends when you snack though).

Make sure your meals are sufficiently high in fat and protein and low in carbs, so you don’t get hungry between meals. I did Atkins a long time ago, and it was quite amazing how the urge to snack just disappeared.

Have you you tried writing down and calorie counting everything you eat? Not saying you have to do this for ever but it would be good to see in black and white exactly what those snacks add in terms of calories and then on an ongoing basis the act of writing it all down helps to give some accountability and makes you more mindful of what you are eating.
Agree also that your main meals need to be filling - plenty of protein and packed with veg.

Write down WHY you are eating when you are not actually hungry. What's the emotion or the trigger that's telling you to seek comfort?

Noting it down would definitely help. I think I'd be quite embarrassed if someone showed me in writing what I'd eaten that day.
I have quite a lot of demands on my time including some caring for an elderly relative so I tend to grab things that are easy so I guess, meals are filling and ok (things like pitta bread with cheese and salad) they're not that high in protein.
Dinners are always pretty healthy with lots of protein and veg.
I think I relate eating with comfort and taking a break.

I would make sure your meals are big enough. I used to have a small breakfast, bigger lunch and even bigger tea but it resulted in lots of snacks. I then split my cals equally across all meals and the snacking stopped. You could also make some big protein lower calorie snacks for when you need them.

I think I relate eating with comfort and taking a break.

That's very common. In your formative years food was comfort, pleasure, reward, a distraction and always part of special occasions. That message is (almost) hardwired into your being.

The first problem is that when you were little someone else was in charge of what and how much you could eat, now it's up to you so it's you who decides. The second problem is that food (especially sweet food) DID do the job when you were a child - unhappy, bored, sad, angry? A biscuit will magically make it all better. Now, as a adult that same biscuit just adds another problem to your life.

It is possible to change this mindset at a subconscious level once you break the emotional connection between food and comfort.

I agree with @Eyesopenwideawake about the triggers.
You say "I think I relate eating with comfort and taking a break" so try and think of something else, apart from food, that you might get that comforting feeling from. And what else could you do to punctuate your day, to highlight a break?