Anonymous wrote:I don't limit food - from healthy calories. I do limit servings of expensive food like strawberries they can have. No strawberries for a snack. That can be apples and bananas and oranges etc.
buy yogurt in big tubs and have them spoon it and add home made granola etc.
I shop sales for those things.

Terrible parenting

You sound awful

Maybe you shouldn’t have three children if you can’t afford to feed them. It’s extremely poor parenting to consider giving your kids an eating disorder so you can cut back on groceries.

If the food is too expensive, buy cheaper food. Strawberries and melons are a treat. Eat a banana.

I only limit food in terms of the time of day. No all day snacking. They get breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner. Grazing all day is bad for everyone. If hungry at other times, they can just wait and eat as much as they like at mealtimes.

I agree with the other advice about buying large containers, not individuals, and buying fruit in-season. Sure, buy some strawberries if you want but when the container is gone, it's gone until next grocery trip and they can eat something else.

"Six yogurts"? Do you mean that you're buying those little individual flavored/ sweetened yogurts? Fancy! Nothing like that in my house. It's a big tub of plain whole milk yogurt. When the kids were young, I put a little decorative sugar in it. Like a quarter teaspoon. Sometimes two colors, for mixing fun.

Anyway, no, do not limit food for your healthy kids.

DO shop smarter. Larger containers instead of little individual ones. (Ideally, nothing individually wrapped. It adds to the price and is often highly processed.) In-season fruit.

Wtf. You have a family of 5 and think it’s excessive they eat 12 apples a week combined? What is wrong with you? I would buy more apples and whatnot, and move bacon to once or twice a month. But lots of chicken, fish, pork tenderloin, beans.

No, but mine also don't eat like yours. Not sure what I would do. I'd be worried they don't get the nutrients perhaps. It just all goes through them somehow.

I don't limit food, but we buy in season. We also talk about healthy choices and not taking large amounts and leaving none for the rest of the family.

Chicken should be a relatively cheap protein unless you are buying something locally grown/organic. Bacon is not terribly healthy so buy enough that everyone can enjoy some but they can't fill up on that.

Agree on buying what is in season for produce. If you can't afford berries every day, just buy what you can afford and when it is gone it's gone. Apples and oranges are your best bets right now, watermelon will be in season soon.

If yogurt prices bother you, you can buy milk and make your own.

I don't limit food - from healthy calories. I do limit servings of expensive food like strawberries they can have. No strawberries for a snack. That can be apples and bananas and oranges etc.
buy yogurt in big tubs and have them spoon it and add home made granola etc.
I shop sales for those things.

Two pieces of fruit a day you want to cut back on?

Anonymous wrote:You want to limit the food of your normal to underweight children because your food bill is expensive?

+1.

Insane.

Anonymous wrote:You want to limit the food of your normal to underweight children because your food bill is expensive?

Buy cheaper food. Strawberries are expensive and out of season.

You want to limit the food of your normal to underweight children because your food bill is expensive?

I have 3 kids (between the ages of 10-5) and they eat soooo much. We go through 6 yogurts a day. Don’t even get me started on the amount of fruit. They can finish a whole melon in one sitting. We go through a dozen bananas, 4 quarts of strawberries, a dozen apples, 2 pounds of bacon, multiple pounds of chicken etc. a week.

Do you limit how much food your kids eat? It is so expensive! Our grocery bill is probably close to $400 a week.

FWIW - none of the kids are overweight and one is on the smaller side (under 50%).