Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't win if someone else is also bringing snacks.
Next time offer to bring snacks for everyone. Your snacks were fine and kids would have eaten them if not for the "better snacks"

You can also get some organic things that are fun like peanut butter crackers. We get these from MOMs (http://shop.latejuly.com/Mini-Peanut-Butter-Sandwich-Crackers/p/LJS-000700&c=LateJuly@Crackers) or you can get the Annie's version of fruit bythe foot. (http://www.annies.com/products/fruit-snacks). Or honest kids juice boxes (less sugar(

And most importantly once in a while just let it go and let the kids eat the goldfish like you did yesterday.

+1 We eat mostly unprocessed snacks at home and when I send their lunch/snack at school, but for "fun" times, like parties, boats, etc, I just let it go. I will send healthy and non healthy snacks and if they come back having eaten only chips, whatever. 85% of their diet is healthy and I don't want food to become "forbidden". In our house, I talk about a clear cut separation between party food, and home food. For example, juice boxes are only at parties. I had major food issues growing up and was overweight (am a healthy/skinny weight now) and I don't want food to be a struggle, and want the kids to learn moderation themselves, which they will only get by being exposed to unhealthy snacks as well. my 5 year old, who was Ms. chips/cookies herself, now only has a few chips and naturally gravitates toward the fruit option. BUT she still eats chips/cookies, just doesn't gorge herself on them.

This.

My kids are older now but it took me years to realize that fun times = fun snacks. I kept the unprocessed stuff for home. I also found that if I didn't bring fun snacks, we ended eating out more.

That's a reasonable and probably smart position but in our case still leaves our kids eating a lot of processed foods. All of the school and camp provided snacks seem to be processed foods (or at least offer a processed food option and my kids will skip the apple and grab the pretzels or goldfish) and then on top of that they are at friends houses and again processed snacks and then after weekend soccer/baseball games again processed snacks.

So I agree with the sentiment that a smart parent needs to pick their battles and that a reasonable quantity of this stuff isn't a problem but we are losing the war badly and won't be turning the tide without a lot of cooperation from other parents.

Anonymous wrote:Goldfish? This is a non-event on the shitty junk food scale. I thought you were going to say Takis and Mt Dew.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nuts
Dried banana chips (not the kind fried in nasty vegetable oil)
Rice rolled up in those crunchy salty seaweed sheets
Apples/oranges/bananas
Rice cakes and peanut butter
Pork rinds from pastured pigs

No advice on the other kids bringing crap snacks, that sucks and not sure id want to fight that battle all damn day if it's supposed to be a nice break for me too

aka sushi?

Anonymous wrote:Nuts
Dried banana chips (not the kind fried in nasty vegetable oil)
Rice rolled up in those crunchy salty seaweed sheets
Apples/oranges/bananas
Rice cakes and peanut butter
Pork rinds from pastured pigs

No advice on the other kids bringing crap snacks, that sucks and not sure id want to fight that battle all damn day if it's supposed to be a nice break for me too

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't win if someone else is also bringing snacks.
Next time offer to bring snacks for everyone. Your snacks were fine and kids would have eaten them if not for the "better snacks"

You can also get some organic things that are fun like peanut butter crackers. We get these from MOMs (http://shop.latejuly.com/Mini-Peanut-Butter-Sandwich-Crackers/p/LJS-000700&c=LateJuly@Crackers) or you can get the Annie's version of fruit bythe foot. (http://www.annies.com/products/fruit-snacks). Or honest kids juice boxes (less sugar(

And most importantly once in a while just let it go and let the kids eat the goldfish like you did yesterday.

+1 We eat mostly unprocessed snacks at home and when I send their lunch/snack at school, but for "fun" times, like parties, boats, etc, I just let it go. I will send healthy and non healthy snacks and if they come back having eaten only chips, whatever. 85% of their diet is healthy and I don't want food to become "forbidden". In our house, I talk about a clear cut separation between party food, and home food. For example, juice boxes are only at parties. I had major food issues growing up and was overweight (am a healthy/skinny weight now) and I don't want food to be a struggle, and want the kids to learn moderation themselves, which they will only get by being exposed to unhealthy snacks as well. my 5 year old, who was Ms. chips/cookies herself, now only has a few chips and naturally gravitates toward the fruit option. BUT she still eats chips/cookies, just doesn't gorge herself on them.

This.

My kids are older now but it took me years to realize that fun times = fun snacks. I kept the unprocessed stuff for home. I also found that if I didn't bring fun snacks, we ended eating out more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't win if someone else is also bringing snacks.
Next time offer to bring snacks for everyone. Your snacks were fine and kids would have eaten them if not for the "better snacks"

You can also get some organic things that are fun like peanut butter crackers. We get these from MOMs (http://shop.latejuly.com/Mini-Peanut-Butter-Sandwich-Crackers/p/LJS-000700&c=LateJuly@Crackers) or you can get the Annie's version of fruit bythe foot. (http://www.annies.com/products/fruit-snacks). Or honest kids juice boxes (less sugar(

And most importantly once in a while just let it go and let the kids eat the goldfish like you did yesterday.

+1 We eat mostly unprocessed snacks at home and when I send their lunch/snack at school, but for "fun" times, like parties, boats, etc, I just let it go. I will send healthy and non healthy snacks and if they come back having eaten only chips, whatever. 85% of their diet is healthy and I don't want food to become "forbidden". In our house, I talk about a clear cut separation between party food, and home food. For example, juice boxes are only at parties. I had major food issues growing up and was overweight (am a healthy/skinny weight now) and I don't want food to be a struggle, and want the kids to learn moderation themselves, which they will only get by being exposed to unhealthy snacks as well. my 5 year old, who was Ms. chips/cookies herself, now only has a few chips and naturally gravitates toward the fruit option. BUT she still eats chips/cookies, just doesn't gorge herself on them.

Anonymous wrote:Referring to food as "crap" is intellectually lazy. Describe more accurately what foods you approve of and what you don't. Because there are no agreed upon "good" and "bad" foods. Actual crap=feces. Goldfish crackers are made primarily of wheat flour, oil, and salt.

Anonymous wrote:You can't win if someone else is also bringing snacks.
Next time offer to bring snacks for everyone. Your snacks were fine and kids would have eaten them if not for the "better snacks"

You can also get some organic things that are fun like peanut butter crackers. We get these from MOMs (http://shop.latejuly.com/Mini-Peanut-Butter-Sandwich-Crackers/p/LJS-000700&c=LateJuly@Crackers) or you can get the Annie's version of fruit bythe foot. (http://www.annies.com/products/fruit-snacks). Or honest kids juice boxes (less sugar(

And most importantly once in a while just let it go and let the kids eat the goldfish like you did yesterday.