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Anonymous wrote:why dont you focus on eating three good meals a day and limit snacks? who cares about a few crackers here and there? Learning moderation is important.

I agree that people eat way too many snacks, but boating is a social occasion. Where I'm from, social occasions call for food.

ok so it is a special occasion, let the kids eat goldfish. What will happen if they eat a "bad" snack on a social outing??

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Anonymous wrote:why dont you focus on eating three good meals a day and limit snacks? who cares about a few crackers here and there? Learning moderation is important.

Of course but this only works in a perfect world. We make good meals for our kids but the salty high sugar snacks are everywhere and often we aren't there to try to limit them and even if we are it is a losing battle that would need to take place in front of our kids friends and their parents.

So if we go for a hike I can pack sliced apples and pistacios. But that morning after the soccer game the snack was juice boxes and muffins and at the pool the next day someone will be passing out pretzels and kool-aid and we won't even be there.

I guess it takes a village?

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Anonymous wrote:why dont you focus on eating three good meals a day and limit snacks? who cares about a few crackers here and there? Learning moderation is important.

I agree that people eat way too many snacks, but boating is a social occasion. Where I'm from, social occasions call for food.

Anonymous wrote:why dont you focus on eating three good meals a day and limit snacks? who cares about a few crackers here and there? Learning moderation is important.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so challenged by my desire not to givi ey kids crap to eat yet wanting life to be easy. Example - yesterday, they went on a boat with friends. I filled the cooler with cut fruit and veggies, string cheese, and some homemade granola bars. And water. Of course they wanted to eat the other kids' Goldfish and CheezIts and juice boxes. So did I! My food went basically uneaten, and they ate the crap. What do you all buy that is still appealing and 'fun' for fun times like a boat ride but isn't junk? I feel like just giving up sometimes and buying the junk bc it's certainly easier and cheaper than buying and preparing fruits and veggies and other non-processed stuff.

String cheese and granola bares aren't healthy.

But it's a boat day, so I would just let it go unless they're boating every day.

really? why not the cheese doesn't have anytying in it but normal cheese ingredients (milk, rennet, salt), and the granola bars are super low sugar, made with quinoa/oats/etc - def not the nasty Quaker variety.

so - if you have to pack something besides fruit and veggies, what do you pack?? that you consider healthy?

If I wanted cheese, I wouldn't pick string cheese. I would pick some good cheese, and it would be a small portion. Americans eat too much dairy.

Your granola bars sound healthier than normal granola bars, but carbs still turn into glucose when processed.

Other than fruit and veges, I would pack good beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, avocado, good yogurt and healthier dips like hummus or baba ganoush.

How does one eat avocado on a boat? Not guac, but avocado?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so challenged by my desire not to givi ey kids crap to eat yet wanting life to be easy. Example - yesterday, they went on a boat with friends. I filled the cooler with cut fruit and veggies, string cheese, and some homemade granola bars. And water. Of course they wanted to eat the other kids' Goldfish and CheezIts and juice boxes. So did I! My food went basically uneaten, and they ate the crap. What do you all buy that is still appealing and 'fun' for fun times like a boat ride but isn't junk? I feel like just giving up sometimes and buying the junk bc it's certainly easier and cheaper than buying and preparing fruits and veggies and other non-processed stuff.

String cheese and granola bares aren't healthy.

But it's a boat day, so I would just let it go unless they're boating every day.

really? why not the cheese doesn't have anytying in it but normal cheese ingredients (milk, rennet, salt), and the granola bars are super low sugar, made with quinoa/oats/etc - def not the nasty Quaker variety.

so - if you have to pack something besides fruit and veggies, what do you pack?? that you consider healthy?

If I wanted cheese, I wouldn't pick string cheese. I would pick some good cheese, and it would be a small portion. Americans eat too much dairy.

Your granola bars sound healthier than normal granola bars, but carbs still turn into glucose when processed.

Other than fruit and veges, I would pack good beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, avocado, good yogurt and healthier dips like hummus or baba ganoush.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for all the replies. I don't think I expressed myself well. I'm not looking for a fight - I totally agree that everythign in moderation. I didn't fight them eating the crap food on the boat and wouldn't, especially in front of the family who gave it to them.

My question is what do you all pack that can compete with crap food? If anything? Is it even possible? I agree that Annie's snacks are junk food too, so I'm not really sure they are worth the extra cost, in my mind. And I also agree that it takes a village, and crap food is everywhere, which is why it is hard to let it go every single time it appears because it appears all the time.

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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.

Had to google this. They look crazy. Will try tomorrow. With my 12 y.o.

Intrigued. Off to Google

Back again - no way! DS would like them but too spicy for me.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for all the replies. I don't think I expressed myself well. I'm not looking for a fight - I totally agree that everythign in moderation. I didn't fight them eating the crap food on the boat and wouldn't, especially in front of the family who gave it to them.

My question is what do you all pack that can compete with crap food? If anything? Is it even possible? I agree that Annie's snacks are junk food too, so I'm not really sure they are worth the extra cost, in my mind. And I also agree that it takes a village, and crap food is everywhere, which is why it is hard to let it go every single time it appears because it appears all the time.

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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.

Had to google this. They look crazy. Will try tomorrow. With my 12 y.o.

Intrigued. Off to Google

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Had to google this. They look crazy. Will try tomorrow. With my 12 y.o.