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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t allow snacks, I find they eat more at meals if no snacks.[/quote]

Why is it important to you that they eat more meals? What a peculiar thought process.[/quote]

Are you joking? Snacks are often processed. I plan their meals so they have 5 veg a day, adequate fiber, protein. If they don’t eat at mealtime their diet isn’t balanced. Anyway I don’t like to waste food. [/quote]

Different poster, but this response seems peculiar to me.

While snacks are, indeed, often processed, it is not intrinsic to the definition of a snack.  Moreover, meals are not necessarily nutritious.  If the meal offered is McDonald’s and the kid only eats the fries and ignores the burger, vs. a snack of carrot sticks, a hard-boiled egg, and apple slices, maybe the child should be snacking more frequently.  I admit that this hypothetical is atypical, but it illustrates that feeding a child between meals is only unhealthy because of the food being offered, not the timing.[/quote]

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