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NP.  These are great snack ideas but what if your teen won't eat them?  My 12 year old is not overweight but if there is no junk food in the house to eat, she will find the white sugar and eat it plain (!).  Or eat slice after slice of bread with butter or cream cheese.  [b]She has started to chunk up [/b]and I would love to help her now instead of during or after puberty.  [/quote]

Ignore that aspect of it. Ask her what she likes to eat for snacks. Agree to buy some of the salt and sugar bombs, but tell her you'd also like her to be eating some things with more protein and calcium and fiber, so what else does she like? Yogurt? Stone fruit? Cheese? Baby carrots? Get some of that, too. Find out what she's eating for lunch at school -- that may be one of the reasons she's coming home so hungry (on days my son doesn't like school lunch, he gets a salad and comes home ravenous).

Her snacks suggest that she is may be about to have a growth spurt. Don't worry -- and FFS, don't talk to her -- about weight gain. Help her take good care of her body, whatever size it turns out to be. [/quote]

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