How much does your kid snack? J has a set snack time at 4:30 and gets a bowl of fruit and a bowl of some sort of snack carb (today is strawberries and cinnamon rice cakes).
I try to avoid snacking too much outside of snack time (though obviously he does sometimes, especially on long subway rides or today in the park he found a bag of teddy grahams in the stroller) I've had to work so hard not to use food as an appeasement tool, but definitely do sometimes.
On a normal day, he has a snack between breakfast and lunch and a snack between lunch and dinner. If we're busy or on the go, he sometimes skips one of those. It can be anything from rice cakes, crackers, cheese, fruit, beans, whatever we have around. I always keep a bag of banana chips in my purse as an emergency snack.
She gets a pouch every afternoon when she wakes up from her nap. And apparently, she gets part of my breakfast on weekends now (like an hour or so after her own breakfast). lol
Yeah, J gets part of my breakfast too. Otherwise he's climbing all over me. Unless it's yogurt. Then he's like "no thanks."
On a normal day, he has a snack between breakfast and lunch and a snack between lunch and dinner. If we're busy or on the go, he sometimes skips one of those. It can be anything from rice cakes, crackers, cheese, fruit, beans, whatever we have around. I always keep a bag of banana chips in my purse as an emergency snack.
Same. Yogurt snack in the morning and fruit/veggie pouch in the afternoon. On the go snacks are usually crackers or yogurt melts if we need to keep her happy somewhere.
Post by TrudyCampbell on Jun 4, 2013 15:52:57 GMT -5
It depends on the day. Sometimes when she has really good naps she doesn't have time for any snacks (but she does get milk before naps). She right now just had some crackers and pears.
Two snacks a day. At DC, snacks are something carby (scone, crackers and jam, cheerios). On the weekends, we give him something along the lines of applesauce, a cheese stick, yogurt or a fruit pouch.
It seems like she snacks a lot. 9am snack, 2:45 snack, 4:45 snack. I usually give her a snack of fruit or cheese when she gets home from DC before dinner. All those are set snacks at DC. The 9am is like yogurt, fruit, oatmeal, French toast, more like breakfast but they call it a snack. The other 2 are animal cookies, fruit, goldfish, bread (sweet potato bread this week), apple sauce.
Probably too much, she knows where the pouches are kept and she'll get one out and bring it back to me to open for her. We also snack a lot ourselves so she's getting bites here and there a lot.
Evie doesn't eat much at a time. I've held back on snacking wondering if I was offering food too often but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I offer meals the same time we eat for big meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then she has 3 other snack times (or more) a day. When she eats, it's a few bites and she throws it away from her and refuses more. She is the pickiest eater ever! She loves puffs though, she would eat those all day if I let her.
DD wakes up at 6am and has a bottle and a little yogurt or oatmeal. 3x a week she's at DC and has oatmeal and a banana at 9. She sleeps 9-11am, then has lunch. I pick her up at 3 and give her a snack at home- yogurt, cheese stick, cottage cheese, cheerios. Dinner for her at 5, bottle at bed at 7pm.
My kids graze all morning, they have long naps in the afternoon, and then usually nothing until dinner. J usually gets a snack before bed since he stays up for a few hours after dinner. Snacks consist of pouches, fruit bars, fruit, carby snacks (Annie's bunnies), cheese for Anna, smoothies, fruit gummies, etc.