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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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".  [/quote]

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