Do you limit food?

[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.

[Anonymous]

I have a kid who often won't eat at all.

I would take your problem.

[Anonymous]

Oh there was a lady who posted on and on a few years ago about the small amounts of food she made for her teenage athletes! We had her triple the amount of food she prepared at each meal.

Your kids are hungry. If they snack on fruit, great. But add some protein or fat to that fruit to get it to last longer and actually fill them up. Apple with peanut butter. strawberries and a some cheese. Cheese and nuts. Plain greek yogurt, berries and granola.

My teenage swimmers can eat insane quantities of food. I just went to costco today for more bread, eggs and peanut butter.

As long as your kids are in shape, exercising and eating meals, let them have their reasonable snacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh there was a lady who posted on and on a few years ago about the small amounts of food she made for her teenage athletes! We had her triple the amount of food she prepared at each meal.

Your kids are hungry. If they snack on fruit, great. But add some protein or fat to that fruit to get it to last longer and actually fill them up. Apple with peanut butter. strawberries and a some cheese. Cheese and nuts. Plain greek yogurt, berries and granola.

My teenage swimmers can eat insane quantities of food. I just went to costco today for more bread, eggs and peanut butter.

As long as your kids are in shape, exercising and eating meals, let them have their reasonable snacks.

OP - I just cannot imagine what it will be like once they hit puberty. They already eat more than I do.

[Anonymous]

Op the fact that you had to tell us that you work out every day and only eat 1300 calories says a lot about your attitude towards food...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a kid who often won't eat at all.

I would take your problem.

Are you the same poster who responded to a thread about kids jumping on the bed with "my kid is paraplegic-- I'd love to have your problem."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh there was a lady who posted on and on a few years ago about the small amounts of food she made for her teenage athletes! We had her triple the amount of food she prepared at each meal.

Your kids are hungry. If they snack on fruit, great. But add some protein or fat to that fruit to get it to last longer and actually fill them up. Apple with peanut butter. strawberries and a some cheese. Cheese and nuts. Plain greek yogurt, berries and granola.

My teenage swimmers can eat insane quantities of food. I just went to costco today for more bread, eggs and peanut butter.

As long as your kids are in shape, exercising and eating meals, let them have their reasonable snacks.

Yes!! Here it is!!
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/465595.page

[Anonymous]

I have an open fruit and veg policy in my house. Want a snack before dinner - fruit or veg. The ONLY thing I limit is starch snacks, like crackers. My kids would graze on them all day long and not eat meals. They'd probably end up with scurvy, if I let them.

OP, as others state, just buy healthy cheaper food, like chicken, tubs of yogurt, costco cheese blocks (these are quite good), etc. We spend 150-200/wk for a family of 4, one is a teen, all athletes. We are all slim and eat healthy unlimited portions of healthy food.

[Anonymous]

They are going to end up fat. You can’t develop habits like this and keep them up forever. Metabolism will catch up and then you just have bad habits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are going to end up fat. You can’t develop habits like this and keep them up forever. Metabolism will catch up and then you just have bad habits.

OP - yes I am also very worried about this as well. I am not overweight and worry about them becoming overweigh when they get older as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are going to end up fat. You can’t develop habits like this and keep them up forever. Metabolism will catch up and then you just have bad habits.

Well isn't that what GLP-1 is for now?