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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm impressed by these tweens/teens who apparently can self-regulate. Mine would blow through the snacks, meant for a week-10 days, in a day or two.*

We do have mostly healthy stuff, but I also buy snacky, not healthy stuff meant for a once/day treat. A bag of chips with lunch, for example. I could just say, ok, well, if you eat it then it's gone, but I've got two kids, and one would eat mostly everything junky very quickly and the other would complain.

*Honestly, their dad does the same thing, and it irritates me to no end.  I have to tell him explicitly - these are for the kids' lunches, DON'T EAT THEM! Because of course, he doesn't replace or tell me when the snack bag is low, so I'm running around trying to find a replacement because I have one bag of chips and both kids want them --> bickering.

OP, I tell my kids they can have fruit whenever they want, they can make a sandwich whenever they want so long as they are done eating by 4 pm (hate cooking when people just ate two sandwiches). But other than that, snacks require permission.[/quote]
Are you teens and your DH overweight? Obese? If they are not, why do you think your kids can't self regulate? I mean, honestly? I understand if they are very overweight, but if they are not, how do you know what is meant for 10 days?
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My tweens are not obese but my DH is. He eats constantly and has never passed a 7-11 that he doesn't want to enter. I know that it is meant for 10 days because I bought it and I intended it to last for 10 days. For example, if I buy 20 of those snack bags of chips, I am intending to give each of my two kids one bag per day = 20 days. I do not expect the three of them to eat it in 1-2 days. My DH would blow through 4-5 of those at a time, because they are single-serve bags so he thinks they are just a taste.[/quote]
One single-serve bag of chips.... per tween.
Your dh aside, you meant it for 10 days, so it is supposed to be for 10 days. In other words, your meals and snacks are controlled by you, your kids see snacks as some thing to crave, you are creating obese kids, yes, not your DH, you are.[/quote]

What? This is pp you are responding to and you are reading far too much into my answer. I was answering the question of how do I know that the snacks are for a certain number of days. Yes, they get one bag of chips in their lunch box. It's a problem if they are fixing lunches and there's one bag left because both kids will want it. I am not saying that's the only snack they are allowed to have in a day, just that I can't have DH eating all the lunch snacks without letting me know because it leaves the kids short. [/quote]
Snacks require permission? Did you write that? How is anyone reading too much into that? How can that be read in any way other than you are nuts?[/quote]

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