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07/21/2024 09:00

Subject: Snacks before bed

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Anonymous wrote:Op here- growing up I was always told to not eat right before bed because food can’t be digested. I am new to this!

I know he is hungry so that’s why I am looking for something healthy and fills him up.

Love all of these ideas! Thank you.

PP with the carrots... one of my strategies with veggies and fruit (and I know this is not unique) is basically to have a bottomless veggie and fruit option. So, I may say, well, you can have two girl scout cookies, OR as many carrots as you can carry to your room (so long as you don't leave them in there for weeks). And being a dumb (but beloved) boy, he always goes for the bottomless carrots. Now he loves carrots. With my daughter it's cherries. She whines for candy and as she starts to get very upset, I say, "Well, don't tell mom, but you can have as many cherries as you want, but just today." Both kids have sweet tooths but both eat insane amounts of fruits and vegetables.

You want your almost teenage son to eat nothing but carrots when he is hungry after dinner? That’s cool for a 5yo who is stalling bedtime, but it’s bot nearly enough calories for a teenager who is about to shoot up in height! How about carrots and pita and hummus or something?

I don't want my teenage son to eat anything! He helps himself to it!

And it's not his only meal of the day! With his sports schedule, he'll typically have a hearty snack, go to practice, come home, shower, have dinner, watch some TV, eat a dessert, chug some glasses of milk, and then fix himself his bedtime snack and head upstairs to read.

I tell him he can't have candy, cookies or cake, but he can have anything fruit, vegetable or nuts (so long as he pays attention to the serving size) he wants. He sometimes will create a fruit bowl or maybe celery and peanut butter. But carrots are his favorite. We buy baby carrots in bulk. If I buy whole carrots, he'll eat them, skin on, before I can clean them up for him. He wouldn't eat hummus if you held a gun to his head.

My biggest concern is nothing that leaves crumbs everywhere in his room and I don't love the peanut butter because he finds a way to smear it everywhere.

Okay. OP, firstly, just make a rule that there's no food allowed in kids bedrooms, ever. They can have water overnight and that's it. The produce or nuts he's eating after dessert is not going to fill him up. He needs heartier food than that. Or, try giving him a heartier dessert- chocolate ice cream, but add peanut butter, banana and nuts to it. See if that helps.

No, everything is going great. He’s happy, we’re happy and his doctor is very happy and encouraged us. Doesn’t love all the milk but it’s skim.

Am I in cuckoo land? Whole milk is bad for a growing boy?

It’s very bad for your teeth; according to our dentist.

Doctor prefers he drinks water, but if he’s going to drink milk, recommends skim because of the fat content. DS drinks skim anyway because both my wife and I grew up on it and it’s what has always been in the fridge.

He drinks at least half a gallon a day, so at that rate I don’t think the doctor is wrong.

Actually your dr is wrong. And your son would benefit from whole milk, especially if he isn’t feeling full at night. Whole milk is far more satiating that skim, the vitamins in the milk absorb much better, and the impact on tooth decay is no different that skim. They both have the same amount of natural sugars, it’s the fat content that differs. Fat does not contribute to tooth decay.