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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm impressed by these tweens/teens who apparently can self-regulate. Mine would blow through the snacks, meant for a week-10 days, in a day or two.*

We do have mostly healthy stuff, but I also buy snacky, not healthy stuff meant for a once/day treat. A bag of chips with lunch, for example. I could just say, ok, well, if you eat it then it's gone, but I've got two kids, and one would eat mostly everything junky very quickly and the other would complain.

*Honestly, their dad does the same thing, and it irritates me to no end.  I have to tell him explicitly - these are for the kids' lunches, DON'T EAT THEM! Because of course, he doesn't replace or tell me when the snack bag is low, so I'm running around trying to find a replacement because I have one bag of chips and both kids want them --> bickering.

OP, I tell my kids they can have fruit whenever they want, they can make a sandwich whenever they want so long as they are done eating by 4 pm (hate cooking when people just ate two sandwiches). But other than that, snacks require permission.[/quote]

So, I'm a parent whose kids do a decent job of self regulating, I think, but that doesn't mean that they eat the food the way I think it should be eaten.  If I had snack bags of chips, and I hadn't declared them off limits for a specific purpose, then they'd eat them on the first day or two, and then make do with other things.  They wouldn't be replaced, until I was at the store anyway.  That's kind of how they learned.

If I bought something in a limited quantity that was specifically for lunches, then i'd label that as for lunches, but my kids were packing their own lunches pretty early.  If my kids were fighting over a bag of chips, I'd probably eat them myself, and then let them know they needed a new plan before I bought more.  I can absolutely see my kids labeling each bag of chips with a sharpie, or something for a while, and then one kid eating them on day one and watching his brother's chips last.  And then he'd learn to self regulate, whether by eating his over time, or by being OK with them being out.

Having said that, my kids pack their own lunches.  I give them guidance and provide options, but they make the decisions and assemble.  So, if something ran out, they'd need to problem solve.  [/quote]

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