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[quote=Anonymous]Nope, I don’t limit food. I also tell my kid to bring home stuff she doesn’t eat from her lunch so the school doesn’t send home nasty notes about children wasting food in the garbage as I’ve seen in the last. She is allowed to regulate when she is hungry and when she is not. She wants 3 yogurts, r
4 rice cakes and fruit at bedtime after eating a full dinner? Yep, here you go. Not hungry today and brought home a cheese stick and all her veggies in her lunch box? Also fine. She is strong, active, healthy and eats a well rounded diet. I think letting her learn about listening to her body is more important than monitoring what she eats. Yes, groceries are more expensive. We shop as much on sale as we can, which actually promotes a lot more variety in her diet. Berries expensive this week - here’s some apples and melon. Regular yogurt and cornice but drinking yogurt on sale- well, here’s a treat for the week. Nope, triscuits are double price this week so here’s some rice crackers! Let’s go to the farmers market and you can pick out your 3 favourite veggies (we live in an ag area).

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