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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tea time= food in between meals. 
Gaiter= food in between meals.
Snack=food in between meals.

There's no difference. [/quote]

Missed the point. What PP was trying to get to above was that the first two are fixed times, or a 1x per day, food in between meal times. And, well, not everyone has tea anymore. The difference with American snacking is that it is more of a continuous grazing. We eat all day, every day. If the kid is not being fed a sugary popsicle (that is pure junk food) it's goldfish, crackers, yogurts, snack bars, or similar. Kids here never have a break to get hungry. We snack ALL DAMN DAY. That's the difference.

I have a neighbor who tells me that her kid doesn't have a big appetite. When he comes for meals, he barely eats anything. She says he just doesn't eat much. However, before lunch and right after lunch, he eats Pringles, goldfish or Rice Krispies. During the afternoon, he eats other chips and salties. I had him for a whole day, she sent a bag of snacks and that's all he ate. Yet she told me that he doesn't like to eat big meals. No, it's because he eats crap all day. Same thing here. Or with all of the country actually.[/quote]

OP is complaining about a snack that is given at the same time every day.  She is not complaining about someone grazing.  If OP's kid is grazing all damn day, then that's on OP, since it appears that her kid is not at camp for 21 out of 24 hours.

The snack is water and a little sugar.  It's got the number one most important nutrient for a kid playing outside in the sun, which is water, so it's definitely not pure junk food.  It's also the same, nutritionally, as a British cup of tea, minus the milk.  If you want to argue that the British only ever drink tea one time a day that is scheduled, well, I'm going to argue that you've never been to Britain.   [/quote]

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