Before we moved home to Florida, my girls and I took a quick trip over to London to visit a dear friend.\u00a0 While we were there we stayed extremely busy and had a great time but or schedule left little need or time for snacking and you know what I noticed?\u00a0 My girls were eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, all of it, every time!\u00a0 When we returned to Dublin I adjusted our daily schedule and took out our usual morning snack.\u00a0 We had breakfast, an earlier lunch (usually around 11) then after nap we had a small afternoon snack before hubby came home for dinner.\u00a0 The girls continued to eat well at meals and even stopped asking for snacks.<\/p>\n
We continued the newly adopted schedule when we moved back to Florida, that is until Honeybun\u00a0started Pre-K.\u00a0 They do a snack time at 9:15 (!!!) in the morning.\u00a0 As school starts at 9, many parents just bring in the child\u2019s breakfast to have during that snack time but we are up by 7:30 and hubby usually drops Honeybun\u00a0at school on his way into work, around 8:15 so she would be way to hungry to wait.\u00a0 We also now don\u2019t eat lunch until she\u2019s home which is usually between 12:15 and 12:30 so Sugarplum and I require a morning snack also.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been very strict with only sending healthy snacks to school with Honeybun\u00a0, usually fresh fruit or veggies so long as I have it.\u00a0 The first few days Honeybun\u00a0would come home saying \u201cMommy, so-and-so had goldfish.\u00a0 She told me my snack was gross.\u201d \u00a0Honeybun’s\u00a0favorites are bell pepper, grapes, clementines, apples or banana though she has in the past taken mushrooms, salad, tomatoes and green beans.\u00a0 She even went through a seaweed phase where she was taking dried seaweed sheets (unfortunately we ran out and I can\u2019t find more locally\u2026will have to wait until we\u2019re on the road near a Trader Joe\u2019s again!).<\/p>\n
Her school also does ice cream for snack every Wednesday which parents can pre-order at an extraordinary cost.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never done it due to the cost and my \u201chealthy only\u201d decision.\u00a0 The first week Honeybun\u00a0was upset and the 2nd<\/sup> week the teacher actually asked me if I knew it was available because there was only one other boy that didn\u2019t have it.\u00a0 The 3rd<\/sup> week I talked to Honeybun\u00a0before school, explaining it was an ice cream day but she wasn\u2019t going to have it again because she got her ice cream after dinner.\u00a0 Her unusual-for-kids snack choices I think gave her a label as \u201cthe weird one\u201d which bothered her at first, but now I think she likes the attention she gets from having strange things and she hasn\u2019t even brought up the ice cream since the first month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before we moved home to Florida, my girls and I took a quick trip over to London to visit a dear friend.\u00a0 While we were there we stayed extremely busy and had a great time but or schedule left little need or time for snacking and you know what I noticed?\u00a0 My girls were eating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}