If you have kids in the house, how much processed carbs do you have in your kitchen?

[Anonymous]

And how do you keep from eating them? I am fairly good at staying away from super processed snack foods, but I know it wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t have them in the house. It’s just that I have two teens so in addition to grab and go things like power bars, peanut butter crackers, etc. we also have a constant stream of cheez-its, bagged popcorn, etc. I would actually consider them to be on the healthier side of snacks, but now that I’m in my 40’s I have less room for foods with low nutritional value.

[Anonymous]

We have stuff like that. It goes in a snack bin and I pretend it’s not there. Kids grab what they need although DH raids it too. But tbh I really don’t snack. I have a latte in the am, eat the same 1/2 things for lunch every day and the only time I need a snack is if dinner is late and I’ll have a piece of cheese and a few crackers… . My downfall is wine, cheese chocolate truffles and ice cream, not goldfish.

[Anonymous]

I keep those snacks in the storage room in the basement. I try to buy the cases of individually packaged chips/snacks to try to help with portion control for whoever eats it.

Also keep popsicles, ice cream bars in the basement freezer.

[Anonymous]

Think of those items as your kids’ food and treat them like roommates or a shared work fridge. Do you steal other people’s lunch at work? Eat an snack off their desk when you walk by without asking?

[Anonymous]

I'm the dad. I hide the snacks. Just like the ICBM missile program, there are a variety of locations. Nobody in this house can be trusted.

[Anonymous]

Those big Sliced fruit trays (the pineapple, melon, strawberry, blueberry)
I buy two a week (sun and wed) and get them out every morning
Nuts-almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds
Drink a glass of milk when I crave carbs, or Greek yogurt with fruit and nuts
Apple a day
Dried fruit-mango
Oatmeal with milk

[Anonymous]

I just ate them - teen years were stressful and I had other priorities than hiding snacks and feeling guilty about food. I also didn't want my teen daughter seeing me locking "bad" foods away and counting calories after the number my mom did on me when I was a teen.

So I put on some pounds in my 40s, no regrets. I took it all off (and more) over a period of 6 to 8 months and haven't gained any back after 2 years.

[Anonymous]

We don't have them.

We mostly stick to 3 meals a day except the toddler has an afternoon snack. Snacks are fruit and plain yogurt with honey.

If we want something like a muffin or croissant, we go somewhere to buy it. We don't keep things like goldfish crackers or chips in the house and honestly don't really eat them at all.

[Anonymous]

I don't buy a lot of them. And the things I do are reasonable for snack foods; Kind bars, Rx bars, dried fruits and nuts, triscuts, pretzels, whole wheat fig bars, beef jerky, I make popcorn on the stove every few days and bag it up. I'm not really into snack type food anyhow, so I don't eat them. I don't want me kids eating Cheez-its and stuff like that daily so I don't buy those kind of snacks

[Anonymous]

So many. I have little to no interest in them but my kids looooove cereal and cereal bars for breakfast, and cheez its for snack.

Also now I've learned that the store bought sliced high fiber wheat breads and other packaged bread products we buy also count as highly processed and may give us all cancer.

But I work full time, so I don't know exactly when I'm supposed to make 4 people's worth of bread multiple times a week (bread takes timing!), and my kids are NOT interested in switching from cereal to oatmeal, or even homemade vegetable muffins. I try but I'm so bummed that even the "good" processed foods are bad now.

[Anonymous]

I eat what I want but I've never been a snacker.

[Anonymous]

I don't like sweets, for one thing. I think people either like sweets or don't. One of my kids likes them and one does not.

[Anonymous]

I don't buy them snacks that I love.

I can resist cheese its, peanut butter crackers, oreos, cereal, etc.

If there is something I can't resist, I don't buy it-- bakery cookies, chocolate, triscuts, etc

[Anonymous]

We have a TON of those snacks because my kids have friends over frequently. I keep them in the laundry room and the kids know they can grab what they want, but for me it’s out of sight/out of mind. In the kitchen we keep the things I prefer everyone eat like fruit, nuts, hard boiled eggs, protein bars etc.

[Anonymous]

My husband loves snacks. We have a lot of processed carbs in the house. He also doesn't believe that eating more protein and fat and fewer carbs will help him. As a result, he's overweight.