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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is fair to limit more expensive food.  It is fine to limit meat to a portion, but, you might want to reconsider what a portion size is if your budget allows for it.  Lots of women who restrict their own caloric intake forget that younger people need larger portions. Again, if this is mostly driven by a strict budget, it’s fine to say that is all you can afford.  I would teach your kids about the prices of food and also have a conversation about how life is not always fair.  
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I'm not serving them larger portions.  I'm giving them more portions.  Let's say I'm making burgers.  I make all the burgers the same size.  I eat one cheeseburger with no bun.  Dad eats 1 cheeseburger with a bun.  Teens eat 2 cheeseburgers with buns.  Then we have run out of burgers, and all there are are sides, including baked beans, and other foods with less protein.  Those are in unlimited portions, because I make enough to anticipate leftovers.

Also, I'll note that maybe we're eating dinner at 7:00.  But as the teens got home they each made themselves a "snack".  I put that in quotes, because what they think is a nice little snack to take the edge off from dinner is something like 2 turkey and cheese sandwiches, an apple with peanut butter, a banana, some chips and guacamole, and a large slice of baked oatmeal.  If I ate that much, I'd be full till bedtime.  So, I do recognize that their appetite is different from mine.

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I guess that’s just the fundamental difference. If I’ve “run out” of burgers and a person hasn’t had as much as they would have wanted, I’d feel like I hadn’t bought/made enough burgers. But you don’t feel this way because you feel like that person should just eat something else since there’s other food left. Maybe this is cultural. [/quote]

Which culture?  [/quote]

I’m from a culture that feeds people (think Italian, Russian, etc.). I know WASP culture is not this way. [/quote]

I am curious.  In my experience, Italian food uses carbs like pasta to stretch meals all the time.  Russians use dumplings and cabbage and other things.  Is it true that in those cultures a kid who wanted to skip the pasta and the dumplings and the vegetables and just eat meat would be able to do that?[/quote]

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