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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours.  Of course the kitchen is closed!  Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon.  Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.[/quote]
Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy. [/quote]

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic.  Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food.  If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack.  They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.[/quote]

OMG shut it! Poster said she went to Panera. Know what my kids eat at Panera? Black bean soup and an apple. Or turkey sandwich on wheat - with an apple.

But no, better keep my preschooler starving for 9 hours so we have room for Mimi’s mayo drenched potato salad and a Pinterest inspired red white and blue dessert!!! What are you serving at your BBQ? Grilled tofu and veggies? [/quote]

No need to be dramatic. Your preschooler will be fine eating some fruit as a light snack.  My spread is full of healthy choices and doesn’t involve heavy or oily foods.  We eat mostly a Mediterranean diet that is healthy and filling.  [/quote]

So, if you actually look up feeding a toddler or pre-schooler, you're completely off base. They should eat every 2-3 hours and not just fruit. Also, you apparently don't realize that small children typically aren't able to "fill themselves up" on a big bowl of cereal in anticipation of a barbeque 9 hours later. Most little kids eat tiny amounts of food at a time.

What, by the way, is the arrangement for fluid intake? I understand that they are probably restricted to water. Do you have a drinking fountain in your well-appointed garden? Or is that the idea with the fruit--they'll get their liquids from the apples? [/quote]

Young children do just fine on fruit as a snack.  A banana is quite filling actually.

As far as drinks between meals go, I have a water cooler located in the basement, as well as, some liters of sparkling water in the garage fridge.  I provide a stack of paper cone cups to drink out of. [/quote]

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