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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People eat all the time now.  Nonstop.  My kid is forced to take a snack for a 2.5 hr preschool event.

Snacks snack snacks all the time.  Mostly processed food.

People don’t smoke.

All you have to do is eat three small meals a day and you won’t get fat. [/quote]

+1 snacks, snacks, snacks. [/quote]

This has to be a huge part of it. My own parents didn't have snacks at school they said they got a milk and that was it. And no snacks after sports. We are constantly shoving food at our kids and a lot of it is garbage. I hate the fact that my kids get a bag of Cheetos and a Sunny D or something like that after a soccer game from some other parent. [/quote]

My kids are getting an Honest juice box and a bag of pirate booty so it has a health halo but is still just calories they don’t need. It’s exhausting to fight back against. My kids think I’m so mean to ban all this snacking. [/quote]

We had zero snacks. I remember always being hungry before lunch and majorly hungry before dinner.
That reminds me, the family ate together at the dining room table every night.[/quote]

We rarely had snacks either. at school we had “milk break” in the afternoon and the moms took turns sending snacks in to have with it. It was usually one graham cracker square or a little cup with a few tiny crackers. Almost seems laughable. And that was in early elementary only. For snack time at my kids’ school some kids bring bags of chips, jumbo muffins, or even sandwiches etc! At home we maybe got a popsicle on a summer afternoon. That was pretty much it. [/quote]

You are forgetting that most schools now provide “free” breakfast and lunch.  So on top of whatever (hopefully healthy) you are feeding your child at home and sending to school with them they get a breakfast #2 of chocolate milk and cinnamon buns and whatever crappy lunch options they want to pick (maybe more chocolate milk, maybe a hot dog, cheesy bread stick) in addition to what you packed them or maybe they trash their lunch and just eat the crap or
Both. Either way- schools need to stop providing food beyond white milk and fresh fruit and vegetables.  They just can’t do it well.[/quote]

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