My Kids are Bottomless Pits...

We have the same problem here in our house. DS10 was begging us to buy some honey for his toast DH caved and purcased a 1kg container of natural honey (the hard stuff) knowing we had some in the house a few days later I offered to make my kids some tea and honey and they said yes went to get the honey and half of the 1kg container was gone in less then half a week!

This was about the same time my Dh's coffee sugar bowl was getting funky we thought there was something wrong with the bowl dh would find there was moisture in his sugar he cleaned out the bowl dryied it good and the next day it was the same. We threw out that bowl pulled out the crystal bowl and that day we discovered that DS10 had gone through half a 1 kg container of honey in less then week and the truth came out.

He was going nuts on the honey and both he and dd10 were sticking their grubbly lil paws it DH's sugar bowl and more then double dipping it! DH nearly took a toilet plunger to his face to discover that he was drinking tainted dirty sugar in his coffee lol!

We told the kids that the lick in stick was gross and they can't do that its a quick way to spread germs. DH was mad that he chucked out our old sugar bowl for nothing lol!:lmao: We asked DS10 to slow down on the honey. 2 days later we ckecked and the honey was gone all gone in less then a week he ate 1 kg of honey! :sick: we have not bought any since.

We named this incident "sugar gate" and asked the kids why they had to eat so much sugar. We discovered they were mad that we sent healthy lunches to school and their friends made "fun of them" (Healthy lunch equals homemade multigrain bun with meat cheese lettuce, baby carrots or cucumbers, yougurt, and a piece of fruit and occasional a granola bar or pudding cup for a treat) We told them we don't care what their friends have for lunch we care our kids are getting the right foods to grow. Then they complained they don't get "good cereal" at breakfast (we buy cheerios, raisin bran, and life) so I went out and bought them really "good" cereal - bran flakes, plain red river, plain cream of wheat and plain oatmeal for 2 months they were very happy to go back to the old brands and learned that adding fruit to it makes it more fun.:lmao:

We too have the "I'm still hungry problem" offer fruit and hear the "im not that hungry":headache:
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Ahh, thanks for that. I never ran into it. I am not surprised at all that it is less sweet in Canada--we really noticed when we went back to the US in December how sweet everything (and I mean everything, breads and tortillas and pasta sauce) tasted now that we are used to foods that are not all filled with sweetener. We didn't really notice when we were eating it often but when we had not had it we were shocked (and it was really pretty icky tasting too).

I am from Canada, I totally noticed how everything is sooo sweet in the US I can not eat their flavored yogurt it is sooo sweet, same with sweetend tea too sweet I have to ask for half a glass of water and dilute it or just drink the water haha:lmao:
 
My kids are the same way as OP's----I've simply stopped buying the stuff they gorge on. Intead of Chef-boy-ar-dee, I make a pound of pasta, mix it with sauce, and put it in the fridge. Lots of yogurt, hummus, pretzels, string cheese, triscuits, toast, peanut butter. One of my kids refuses fruit AND vegetables; when she complains of being 'hungry' after a meal or substantial snack I offer carrots, apples, etc. Suddenly she isn't hungry anymore.:rolleyes1
 
My kids are the same way as OP's----I've simply stopped buying the stuff they gorge on. Intead of Chef-boy-ar-dee, I make a pound of pasta, mix it with sauce, and put it in the fridge. Lots of yogurt, hummus, pretzels, string cheese, triscuits, toast, peanut butter. One of my kids refuses fruit AND vegetables; when she complains of being 'hungry' after a meal or substantial snack I offer carrots, apples, etc. Suddenly she isn't hungry anymore.:rolleyes1

You know the conclusion that I have come to is that I'm the one who is lazy for just wanting my kids to get into the kitchen and feed themselves. Hahahhaa! I forgot, I have to teach them. Sigh...parenting sucks when all I want to do it read and hangout doing my stuff. How do you like them apples? :rolleyes1

Ang
 

I am from Canada, I totally noticed how everything is sooo sweet in the US I can not eat their flavored yogurt it is sooo sweet, same with sweetend tea too sweet I have to ask for half a glass of water and dilute it or just drink the water haha:lmao:
Water?? No one drinks water anymore--didn't you get the memo:lmao:
You know the conclusion that I have come to is that I'm the one who is lazy for just wanting my kids to get into the kitchen and feed themselves. Hahahhaa! I forgot, I have to teach them. Sigh...parenting sucks when all I want to do it read and hangout doing my stuff. How do you like them apples? :rolleyes1

Ang

Yeah what is with the kids wanting us to put effort into raising them and all?:rotfl2:
 
Oh i WANT that title!!!:lmao: And, ummm, where is the tag fairy????

I agree. I am not just worried about HFCS--it is all of it together that gets me. I do think processed fats and sugars also have a different (and worse) effect on the body than the regular stuff. I base this somewhat on how high fat food from the 50s was (or food in Germany and France IS) but how much thinner populations were in the 50s (and are in Germany and France today). Lack of exercise and portion control issues are clearly a part of the issue too--but I do think it is all of these together (and probably other stuff as well).


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and here I am celebrating because the kids' new school requires that everyone eats school lunch (it is organic and vegetarian so I can't complain, but they do come up with odd combinations at times:rolleyes:). I still pack them a good sized snack (because half the time DS--who also can barely keep weight on) will not eat the lunches--sigh. DS is also not fond of meat (he'l eat some chicken). Will your DD take a hard boiled egg or some nuts to school as another source of protein to break up the peanut butter and soy? Those work well for DS.

The way it works here is, in K-8, there's a school lunch menu sent out, and you can have that choice, or maybe soup and sandwich, or bring your own. Usually, my middle two pick a few hot lunches each month, and bring a sandwich the remaining days. For HS, they have a much wider selection--the main entree, pizza and salad bar available every day, and several other choices. The entire district's lunch progrm is on a PIN system where the kids have money in an account--DD15 gets $50 a month, if she wants more, she pays. It's worked fine for her, but I'm not sure how DS13 will do--I found out he'd cleaned out his lunch account buying ice cream daily last year.

DD15 does occasionally bring dinner to her dance studio. Usually PB&J with fruit and crackers. She does like dairy, though--mostly cheddar cheese and yogurt. And she knows she needs more protein, so she does have some meat with dinner and all, it's just not her favorite thing. None of my gang cares much for hard-boiled eggs--she will cook hereself an egg or two fro breakfast sometimes, though. I try not to get too overbearing on keeping tabs, but you know moms--we worry.
 
That is pretty much how it has worked in every school in the US I have had experience with and in typical German schools too. The kids now attend a semi private, kind of granola school that we all adore:hippie: Lunch together as a class, served family style is a part of the philosophy. Even on their short days (DS gets out early twice a week and DD once) they have lunch together before dismissal. They may not bring their own food for lunch (but can bring snacks for mid morning break). I think it is a bargain at 32 Euro a month for organic veggie food and it is encouraging my picky eater to try more:goodvibes
 
Yeah what is with the kids wanting us to put effort into raising them and all?:rotfl2:

D*mn kids!!! LOL!

Yep - Canada. I thought the world ate "Kraft Dinner" and it was called that everywhere. Gosh there are enough commercials for it!

I've travelled to the southern states Louisiana, Texas, Florida, California... and yeah - sweet. :) The first time I had Sweet Tea (thinking it was more like Iced Tea here in Canada) - I thought I was CHEWING IT! LOL... No offense meant by that - but I had no idea one drink could literally suspend that much sugar in it. Now I just get the unsweet when we visit.

I found it really interesting that most of the banquet style meals I had there had pitchers of Unsweet tea on the table and no water. When I asked for milk for my tea - I was brought a 12 oz glass of milk. I love eating in other countries - but I often forget even Canadian/US can vary widely.

Mind you, TRY to find deep-fried dill pickles here - it's a challenge... LOVE those!!!!! :) (yeah, I know, I KNOW...)

That said, it's one of the reasons our family is going with the DxDP... I find so much is fried when I travel to the southern states. I might eat it a couple of times a week ON VACATION. But at home - it's maybe once a month.... a few days of that and I'm ready to trade myself in. That said, we were at Sea World recently and I was surprised I was able to get some healthier choices than I expected and we only ran in to CS there ---- mind you nearly EVERY food stop there has the EXACT same menu! (Give or take an item) LOL.

I think this might be just turning into a food discussing/kid-raising thread - but it's fun.
 
Funny thing is my family is from Texas but I NEVER had sweet tea growing up. Just plain with lemon (we would go through 2 or more pitchers in a day though--I actually didn't drink water as a kid; I remember being shocked to learn other people did when I was in 4th grade having dinner at Carol's house:rotfl:). DH loves the stuff, but it is generally too sweet for me as well. I get your comment about chewing it;)

I agree the thread is fun and I don't *think* Ang minds us taking it off topicish since she is diverting right along with the rest of us:upsidedow
 
To the OP: Just stop buying the junk food. It's convenient, but it's gone in a flash and the kids are still complaining they are hungry. It doesn't sound like it's what they need. I understand about wanting to make food accessible to them that is quick to fix on their own, but honestly, it's not that much more time consuming to make a meal that is a little more filling, healthy, etc. In the time and energy you spend on shopping, labeling baggies with kids' names for particular foods (as was suggested), etc., the kids could learn to throw a prepared dish in the oven and have a filling meal. Personally, I buy the veggies and fruits and tell them that is a great snack for the afternoon when they are hungry (if it's all they have, perhaps they will eat it if they are truly hungry).
 
I don't have a problem with sweets when it comes to DS. He never wants cake or ice cream or candy and never has. He usually rejects chocolate too so he's definitely not like me. ;)

My problem is that he loves the empty calorie food like mac & cheese and ravioli and so on and it's a chore to get him to eat veggies. In retrospect I should have never allowed such food but he's 17 now and he can basically get it for himself if he wants it. I'm glad that he at least eats fruit and drinks low fat milk and so on.

I shouldn't worry I guess. My diet when I was an older teen and young adult was horrible. Now I'm so much better it's crazy.
 
I've travelled to the southern states Louisiana, Texas, Florida, California... and yeah - sweet. :) The first time I had Sweet Tea (thinking it was more like Iced Tea here in Canada) - I thought I was CHEWING IT! LOL... No offense meant by that - but I had no idea one drink could literally suspend that much sugar in it. Now I just get the unsweet when we visit.

I find so much is fried when I travel to the southern states...

I'm from Texas, born and raised. I think sweet tea is disgusting. I like my tea sweetened but I'd rather do it myself.

As for fried foods. I do love a good chicken fried steak and some fried okra, but we like barbeque and grill LOTS of stuff too. Plenty of other non-fried stuff you can eat. :)

Ang
 
Are you making the healthy stuff easily available to them?? Every weekend now when I get home from the farmer's market. I have bags and bags of fruit plus a box of strawberries. I immediately cut them all up. strawberries get the tops cut off and sliced in half, melons get cut up into bite size pieces. Veggies, like string beans get cut into portion sized, bagged and put into the freezer.

For the past three weeks I haven't really eaten anything out of a box, except for cereal. So when I get hungry I don't have to worry about "making" anything for myself. I just grab a baggy of fruit and start munching. Although I can eat a quart size bag of fruit in just one sitting too. So you might want to portion it out into smaller bags. Because you generally will eat more if you have more in front of you. You can be satisfied with a individual bag of chips, but you can eat the whole family size bag of chips if you're not paying attention. Why do you think nabisco is marketing the 100 calorie bags??

And by the time I was in like 7th grade, I was able to prepare my own food for myself, by high school I could make dinner no problem. I remember in high school, at midnight I would be in the kitchen make a full meal. Usually pasta and grilled chicken. And this was after eating a full dinner earlier.

I think it's about time you start teaching them how to prepare their own foods. Rather than relying on quick fixes.
 
I'm from Texas, born and raised. I think sweet tea is disgusting. I like my tea sweetened but I'd rather do it myself.

As for fried foods. I do love a good chicken fried steak and some fried okra, but we like barbeque and grill LOTS of stuff too. Plenty of other non-fried stuff you can eat. :)

Ang
Brisket and sausage will kill you. ;)

I don't like sweet tea either. I use that nasty pink stuff and it's the only time I use it!
 
Are you making the healthy stuff easily available to them??...

Of course! It's just that when I do bring in the fun stuff for them, they eat it all first.

I think it's about time you start teaching them how to prepare their own foods. Rather than relying on quick fixes.

Yes, I agree. Last night I had my daughter make meatballs for our dinner tonight and made my son, who love's his granny's tacos, fry up everyone's tacos.

Oops, Duckidee! We had fried tacos last night! :lmao: Just the outer shells get fried. Lean gbeef, freshly made pintos, and rice side...

Ang
 
Brisket and sausage will kill you. ;)

I don't like sweet tea either. I use that nasty pink stuff and it's the only time I use it!

Ooooh, I loves me some brisket!! LOVE it. :) But I only buy it trimmed. Hey Planogirl, I'M in Plano! :)

ETA: My motto is everything in moderation, my friend!
 


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