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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP. your food sounds much better. By "snacks" I mean junk food like chips, sugar-packed cookies, sodas, anything that is super processed/packed with cancer causing preservatives. I am from central European country and find it hard that kids (and people in general) here don't drink tea but have these non-stop snacking habits. My kids are used to "tea-time" between meals, and we bake often. I also make crepes almost every weekend. After 3-4 hrs without food a child of any age should have a meal, and not a peanut butter sandwich (what a horrible thing to eat anyway). I am always glad when kids stop by but I do not offer snacks, they are offered to have lunch together with my child, or any part of it they want to eat. 
Just a thought, maybe kids are attracted to "hang-out house" because of those snacks that are tasty but unhealthy and they know it's the only place where they can get it, and kids of any age are known for their talents to make bad choices.[/quote]

There's nothing wrong with peanut butter sandwiches.  I live in California where our state fruit is avocado.  Handing out avocado toast to kids after school is a huge hit. Do I make banana bread and give that out too? Sure. I think you need to relax your stance on food and snacks, PP.  It's okay for kids to eat. Kids are attracted to hang-out houses for all different reasons - maybe at their house people yell a lot, or smoke, or their mother is shrill, or has a ton of rules, etc.  It's not all about the food. Growing up the friend's house I went to most had Twinkies and I never had one. [/quote]

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