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[quote=Anonymous][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]

And I agree with OP - this would bother me too. Breakfast, a 10:30 snack, a popsicle at noon, then lunch? That’s absurd, and definitely counts as constant grazing. My kid wouldn’t eat lunch after that either. The cult of snacks is crazy and unhealthy.

Everyone on this board is always talking about Ellyn Satter, but she talks about how parents control the what, where and when of food, and a popsicle because otherwise you might have to entertain yourself waiting for your parent to pick you up at noon is for sure not what I would choose!

I probably wouldn’t say anything, but it’d bug me for sure. [/quote]

Totally agree. [/quote]

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