How many snacks?

[Anonymous]

I don't restrict food and especially not after school because often they really are just very hungry. But my rule with snacks is that it's fruit/veggie and/or protein only. So a fruit packet, blueberries, apple slices with peanut butter, carrots and hummus... all good. No crackers or foods that are primarily carbs. We have those with meals and I know she gets crackers as snacks at school, which is fine. But if she's asking for snack after snack but just wants crackers, Pirate's booty, etc., I take this to mean that she isn't hungry but bored. So I offer the fruit/veggie/protein and if she won't take it, I say she must not be that hungry.

But if she wanted blueberries and carrots and yogurt? I'd be fine with that even if it meant a smaller dinner. It's all good food, and if she's hungry, she's hungry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding him in the car on the way home. He can wait 25 min it takes to drive home. Bad habit. He is just bored in the car. Bring a coloring book.

We do t give out snacks in the car unless it is a road trip

That's what this sounds like. 25 minutes is not a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't restrict food and especially not after school because often they really are just very hungry. But my rule with snacks is that it's fruit/veggie and/or protein only. So a fruit packet, blueberries, apple slices with peanut butter, carrots and hummus... all good. No crackers or foods that are primarily carbs. We have those with meals and I know she gets crackers as snacks at school, which is fine. But if she's asking for snack after snack but just wants crackers, Pirate's booty, etc., I take this to mean that she isn't hungry but bored. So I offer the fruit/veggie/protein and if she won't take it, I say she must not be that hungry.

But if she wanted blueberries and carrots and yogurt? I'd be fine with that even if it meant a smaller dinner. It's all good food, and if she's hungry, she's hungry.

The women is DRIVING home. He is wanting all these snacks on the 25 min car ride it takes from school to home. Just no. He can wait. Really, he will live, your car will cleaner, and you will stop the expectation of getting to eat in the car all the time. Super annoying and unsafe for the driver to be rooting for snacks, he dropped something and wants it, he spilled something and cries, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a limit on snacks on the way home? My 2.5 year old is forward facing and I have started offering a snack on our 25 minute drive home. Nothing too exciting, apple sauce, pirates booty, etc. Last week he wanted 2 snacks (an upgrade from the prior weeks). This week he has wanted 3 snacks on the way home. I’m not someone who really “polices” eating and it doesn’t seem to effect his appetite for dinner. I feel like this is a dumb question, but do other people limit snacks? He is definitely a creature of habit and I feel like the number I give is the number he will then expect going forward. I would think it’s boredom and he isn’t actually hungry except for the fact that he still eats dinner.

Pirates booty is air of course he's still hungry