Do you limit food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the food is too expensive, buy cheaper food. Strawberries and melons are a treat. Eat a banana.

This is absurd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Six yogurts"? Do you mean that you're buying those little individual flavored/ sweetened yogurts? Fancy! Nothing like that in my house. It's a big tub of plain whole milk yogurt. When the kids were young, I put a little decorative sugar in it. Like a quarter teaspoon. Sometimes two colors, for mixing fun.

Anyway, no, do not limit food for your healthy kids.

DO shop smarter. Larger containers instead of little individual ones. (Ideally, nothing individually wrapped. It adds to the price and is often highly processed.) In-season fruit.

OP - I tend to buy individual containers (0% sugar greek yogurt) because when I buy large containers they take WAY more than a serving size. This way I can try and monitor how many servings they are eating.

My 5 year old boy is actually the worst offender. He just eats ALL DAY. He doesn't ever stop. His general meal:

Breakfast: yogurt, toast and pancakes
Snack: fruit and some pretzels (or something like that)
Lunch: At daycare thankfully
Snack: Fruit or string cheese or both or some more yogurt
Dinner: Some sort of protein, carb, veggie and fruit - example salmon, rice, broccoli and cut up strawberries or chicken rice bowl with veggies
Snack before bed: Protein shake, banana with peanut butter

He eats dinner early due to his older siblings sports practices (around 5pm) so by 8pm he is usually hungry again before bed. He is 55 pounds and just turned 5 years old and is in the 99th percentile for height. The eating never ends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you shouldn’t have three children if you can’t afford to feed them. It’s extremely poor parenting to consider giving your kids an eating disorder so you can cut back on groceries.

OP - I just don't understand how kids eat so much. I don't think I ever did as a kid. I probably eat around 1300 calories now as an adult and I work out every day. I have to consciously work to eat 1500 calories.

[Anonymous]

Your grocery bill is insanely cheap for 5 people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy cheaper food. Strawberries are expensive and out of season.

Actually they are in season. I just picked some yesterday out of my own yard.

OP- try shopping at Aldi. They also have local food banks you can use if you are actually in need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your grocery bill is insanely cheap for 5 people.

Ok - I was just guesstimating. It is probably higher than that. Which seems insane. And doesn’t count take out or lunches bought at school (which we don’t do often by maybe a couple of times a month).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Six yogurts"? Do you mean that you're buying those little individual flavored/ sweetened yogurts? Fancy! Nothing like that in my house. It's a big tub of plain whole milk yogurt. When the kids were young, I put a little decorative sugar in it. Like a quarter teaspoon. Sometimes two colors, for mixing fun.

Anyway, no, do not limit food for your healthy kids.

DO shop smarter. Larger containers instead of little individual ones. (Ideally, nothing individually wrapped. It adds to the price and is often highly processed.) In-season fruit.

OP - I tend to buy individual containers (0% sugar greek yogurt) because when I buy large containers they take WAY more than a serving size. This way I can try and monitor how many servings they are eating.

My 5 year old boy is actually the worst offender. He just eats ALL DAY. He doesn't ever stop. His general meal:

Breakfast: yogurt, toast and pancakes
Snack: fruit and some pretzels (or something like that)
Lunch: At daycare thankfully
Snack: Fruit or string cheese or both or some more yogurt
Dinner: Some sort of protein, carb, veggie and fruit - example salmon, rice, broccoli and cut up strawberries or chicken rice bowl with veggies
Snack before bed: Protein shake, banana with peanut butter

He eats dinner early due to his older siblings sports practices (around 5pm) so by 8pm he is usually hungry again before bed. He is 55 pounds and just turned 5 years old and is in the 99th percentile for height. The eating never ends.

Just wait. If I told you what my 99th percentile 14 year old son eats in a day, you'd faint.

I would add some protein and fat to the snacks and meals to fill the kid up. Full fat yogurt, not 0%. Fruit and a pbj, instead of fruit and pretzels. Guacamole to dip those pretzels in, etc . . . .

There's nothing wrong with limiting the more expensive food, as long as there's plenty of healthy variety. "That's all the strawberries for today, you can have an apple or a banana", or "I'm sorry, that's all the salmon, if you're still hungry, I can make you a sandwich".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you shouldn’t have three children if you can’t afford to feed them. It’s extremely poor parenting to consider giving your kids an eating disorder so you can cut back on groceries.

OP - I just don't understand how kids eat so much. I don't think I ever did as a kid. I probably eat around 1300 calories now as an adult and I work out every day. I have to consciously work to eat 1500 calories.

Are you growing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't limit food - from healthy calories. I do limit servings of expensive food like strawberries they can have. No strawberries for a snack. That can be apples and bananas and oranges etc.
buy yogurt in big tubs and have them spoon it and add home made granola etc.
I shop sales for those things.

Terrible parenting

You sound awful

You ok? You're not even trying to troll well.

[Anonymous]

If you have an instant pot you can make your own yogurt, and yes it’s cheaper.

Give them more protein and fat at breakfast. No toast and pancakes, yes to eggs cooked in olive oil with avocado on top. Making it into a frittata means you can add fiber and volume of food with vegetables. Pretzels and fruit is not a filling snack. Make muffins filled with shredded carrots or zucchini, coconut oil, and nut butter for protein. Put out veggie sticks and hummus before dinner. Make sure they are hydrated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Six yogurts"? Do you mean that you're buying those little individual flavored/ sweetened yogurts? Fancy! Nothing like that in my house. It's a big tub of plain whole milk yogurt. When the kids were young, I put a little decorative sugar in it. Like a quarter teaspoon. Sometimes two colors, for mixing fun.

Anyway, no, do not limit food for your healthy kids.

DO shop smarter. Larger containers instead of little individual ones. (Ideally, nothing individually wrapped. It adds to the price and is often highly processed.) In-season fruit.

OP - I tend to buy individual containers (0% sugar greek yogurt) because when I buy large containers they take WAY more than a serving size. This way I can try and monitor how many servings they are eating.

But then they take more than one small container, so the only difference is increased cost and increased plastic waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Six yogurts"? Do you mean that you're buying those little individual flavored/ sweetened yogurts? Fancy! Nothing like that in my house. It's a big tub of plain whole milk yogurt. When the kids were young, I put a little decorative sugar in it. Like a quarter teaspoon. Sometimes two colors, for mixing fun.

Anyway, no, do not limit food for your healthy kids.

DO shop smarter. Larger containers instead of little individual ones. (Ideally, nothing individually wrapped. It adds to the price and is often highly processed.) In-season fruit.

OP - I tend to buy individual containers (0% sugar greek yogurt) because when I buy large containers they take WAY more than a serving size. This way I can try and monitor how many servings they are eating.

But then they take more than one small container, so the only difference is increased cost and increased plastic waste.

buy yogurt in bulk. Then limit to one per day. When the yogurts out, it's out. I'm not running back to Costco until the next month.

[Anonymous]

What if you served dinner food at breakfast? Casseroles and such. See if that helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy cheaper food. Strawberries are expensive and out of season.

Depends where you live. Where I live, berry season just started, and stone fruit season is coming in right behind it.

[Anonymous]

$400 a week for a family of five is reasonable.