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These little ones are something else. For snacks, we try to give pepperoni, cheese, fruit, yogurt/smoothies, rolls (and even leftovers) over packaged chips/crackers/cookies if possible. But since their appetites/likes/dislikes/preferences seem to change daily…it’s often a toss up 🙃
We do that as well and probably I need to keep bananas or grapes out (fully washed ofcourse) incase he gets hungry at weird times. He woke up at 5 AM and I am not even kidding, he finished 6 pancakes and 2 muffins! And ofcourse then decided not to have the lovely breakfast that I had planned for the weekend! I just don't get it at all...
No. My kids have ok to wake clocks and they’re welcome to lay in bed until yellow light and then at yellow light they can get up and play quietly. And then green light they can come out. They’d never be offered food at non meal or snack times. Imo that’s an invitation for grazing and that’s my biggest pet peeve
Do you keep some snacks easy to reach incase the kid wakes up really early and hungry? We don't keep snacks open access because my kid will eat snacks for meals but now I am thinking maybe my approach is wrong
We let them have fruits or veggies any time except when we are literally about to eat a meal together. We try to steer them away from highly processed snacks.
We had cereal and milk in kid friendly containers and once they could open the fridge, they ate breakfast when they got up.
This definitely annoying, but the alternative is also annoying! My kid wakes me up early sometimes and complains about wanting to eat. I guess at least yours takes care of himself!
I meal prep on Sundays anyway, but I travel twice a month for work and generally go to a lot more effort then.
- some form of crockpot stew for my spouse and youngest to eat - anything that can easily be microwaved with losing quality.
- pasta sauce of some form for spouse and youngest.
- full box of spaghetti cooked to go with the sauce or with Italian protein powder for my oldest who only eats 5 things.
- large batch of banana pancakes which are breakfast on Sunday morning with leftovers for the rest of the week (warmed through in the air fryer on the reheat setting at 320).
- loaf of home made bread.
As for kids snacking - I’ve never experienced either of mine waking up that hungry nor do they help themselves to food (if you ignore my oldest’s propensity to sneak chocolate chips out of the baking stocks in the pantry that have now been moved), but if they do need something (or if we’re just lazy on a weekend morning), we leave Cheerios and Chex accessible for them to help themselves (and the dog as the rarely get it all in the bowls…)
Sounds like my kids. lol. I have three growing boys. It's impossible to tell when the next growth spurt is starting that demands them to eat more. Some days they'll barely touch food, other days (and sometimes for weeks at a time), they're insatiable. They're all active and their weights trend with their heights. My oldest put on a few extra pounds as a tween and then shot up 8 inches in the past year and a half...he's nearing 6ft now and so skinny. Just saying, as long as kids are active and not just eating entire gallons of ice cream (or have an actual weight problem), let them eat, let them snack. Sometimes they really need it. And at least it sounds like he had a good mix of protein in there!