Snacks

Love this idea! Question: do you find they open and eat only some of everything or are they good to pick one and eat just that? Do you have rules around it? I love it and will definitely steal this idea just wondering how it works for you!! 😁

My son would open and pour out all of it for fun 🤣✨ but I love the idea

@Emily typically they are good about picking one and eating it. I’ve found they are more likely to eat something they pick and bring to me to open than if I open and give them the snack. The only “rules” we have is 1 snack at a time. If they want a new snack they gotta finish the other one first. Sometimes the dogs finish it tho. lol.

I do this, but in my pantry so I see what my son takes. Currently he will take more than one snack and i ask him which one he wants to start with and usually put the others back bc he loses interest pretty quickly once he has the snack he wants. Plus he can't open most snacks on his own, he is only 16 months.

@Stephanie I used to keep my bucket in my pantry but we would have meltdowns that they couldn’t open the pantry door when they wanted to get a snack.

I’d love to do this! But I know my kids they would eat snacks all day and then won’t be able to eat dinner or lunch meals. 😫

That looks like ADHD in a bucket. Boys are known to be more sensitive to all the preservatives in these snacks. I would recommend fresh fruit. Pack a kiddie charcuterie box & give them the bottom shelf in the fridge. They will love it!

@Liz This. I’ve had to do this with my son. I keep snacks like fruit, nuts, veggies they like, precut on a divided tray I got from Dollar Tree with the exact same bin flipped over on top to keep any bugs that may be in the house off (because no one likes closing doors apparently 😂). :)

@Liz I would rather my kiddo eat some pretzels over a banana or apple. As a gestational diabetic you would be surprised how much sugar really is in fruit. Fruit is a great treat but definitely shouldn’t eat that much of it.

@Justice yes, gestational diabetes. The sugar a fruit has is not the same as the sugar in packaged goods. Bananas and apples are known to be higher in natural sugars, but there are other fruits available. Guava, watermelon, oranges, prickly pear, pears.. all great with high water content. But to each their own.

Not worked for us my son just opens all! I do have a box of treats some sweet some healthy and he gets to choose one of each at any time. He ends up eating the fruit or veg more than the sweet stuff!

I do this but with salt free lentil crisps and fresh veggie sticks, and some fresh fruit. As its fresh I can't really leave it out all day though. I tend to give my boy preservative free snacks too and no/very little salt.

We have an organizer hanging on the back of a door in our house, snacks that adults want to eat go at the top, snacks for toddler go towards the bottom. He grabs what he’d like and brings it to an adult to open, then he’ll take a handful/piece and come back when he needs more, Anything we fear being opened and wasted we keep up higher.