Do you allow unlimited fruit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I generally don't mind the kids eating fruit, but a bag of clementines a day per teen/tween is hard to keep up with.

What are your rules?

Omg just let them eat the fruit

If you don’t want them to don’t buy more but limiting is absurd

[Anonymous]

I don't limit anything for any of my kids.

[Anonymous]

It's OK to eat the whole bag of clementines once a week, or the whole clamshell of berries, and it's also ok to not have the high demand fruit available 7 days a week. Just make sure the less bingeable apples and oranges make it through the week, and someone can eat a bag of clementines once a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's OK to eat the whole bag of clementines once a week, or the whole clamshell of berries, and it's also ok to not have the high demand fruit available 7 days a week. Just make sure the less bingeable apples and oranges make it through the week, and someone can eat a bag of clementines once a week.

+1
DC just went through the clamshells of jumbo blueberries and strawberries and is working their way through the apples. This is just today.

[Anonymous]

In general I let them have as much fruit as they want but yes I will restrict it in sensible ways to conserve food, So like I will take the container berries away and say we need some for breakfast tomorrow or your oatmeal will be plain. My kids are smaller so I am also trying to help them understand we don’t have everything unlimited quantities.

[Anonymous]

Weight watchers allows unlimited fruit.

[Anonymous]

Uhoh, diarreah!

[Anonymous]

An entire bag of clementines is too much acid on their teeth. I hope they brushed or rinsed with water afterwards.

[Anonymous]

We have been serving fruit with almost every meal since the kids were babies, so I'm glad now that they are teens they see fruit as a good thing to choose. There is so much crap they eat outside our house, so if they are willing to eat the food I buy I keep buying it to make sure I don't run out. And a bag of clementines is cheaper than say a small container of strawberries, so I look at it like yeah, I would keep buying those clementines and be glad they eat them. They will eventually tire of them and move on anyway.

[Anonymous]

I have to limit my tween on berries. They would eat a pint of blueberries in one sitting if allowed. I usually have to hide the berries in another refrigerator and ration them out to the main refrigerator so that other kids can have some. Yes we've tried everything to keep the berry consumption to a reasonable amount but I still have to go back to the grocery store multiple times a week for berries.

[Anonymous]

I don’t limit except for one kid with frozen mango. It’s irritating because the rest of us want smoothies and he’s eaten all the frozen mango. He eats it out of the bag like chips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't limit anything for any of my kids.

+1

[Anonymous]

Yes because I am not poor or mean

[Anonymous]

I don’t limit fruit. My now 11yo has never eaten a whole container or bag though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Diversify and offer protein.

What protein snacks do you offer?

This is op. Family will eat whatever snack I put out, but if they're left to their own devices it's mainly fruit since that's the only thing that lives on the counter. We had a mouse problem years ago and I'm paranoid about leaving out nuts out other snacks.

I might try buying more clementines but only putting one bag with one the fruit bowl at a time and hiding the other bags somewhere.

I'm happy because they could be making much worse food choices, but it is a lot.

My rule is that if you’re old enough to be a tween, you’re old enough to know that you need to vary your snacks, that some snacks should be protein (nuts, nut butter, yogurt, cheese, crispy chickpeas, hummus, etc), and certainly old enough to get these yourself without me getting them for you.