Snacks/Snacking

[Brightness]

What do these two words mean to you?

Have snacks & snacking changed since you were younger?

Have you passed your method of snacking on to your children and if so, do you think that is good or bad?

[Brightness]

Originally posted by Brightness+
What do these two words mean to you?

Both of these pretty much mean the same thing to me. Snacks are what you eat between the 3 daily recognized traditional meals. Snacking is the act of eating them.

Have snacks & snacking changed since you were younger?

I think that snacks/snacking have changed since I was younger. I remember snacks as being fruit, juice (NOT Koolaid. . we didn't drink that growing up), raisins (which I detest :blah: ) The content and quantity of snacks has changed, too. Snacks used to be a handful of something and about 6-8 oz of beverage. Nowadays, snacks are a mini-meal but they consist of virtually unhealthy items: cookies, pop, koolaid, chips, sweets.

Have you passed your method of snacking on to your children and if so, do you think that is good or bad?

I have basically passed my method of snacking on to my daughter. However, this clashes with what other family members consider snacking so they disrespect/disregard me and as a result, they 'sneak' her food which I absolutely hate. I believe my method is good because the principle of snacking was to not replace a meal or eat to such a degree that you hinder the consumption of your meal. . .ie "ruining your dinner". I also think, too, that the feeding of a lot of sugar is damaging the development of our children and causing unnecessary health problems in them.

[Brightness]

How many grew up with or provide their child with an AFTER DINNER snack?

[Brightness]

Originally posted by Brightness+
How many grew up with or provide their child with an AFTER DINNER snack?

Dinner was the big meal of the day. . if you didn't eat it all or ask for seconds, you were out of luck until the morning.

When I was in Miami, my friend's sister told me that my daughter needed a snack at 10 pm at night. Needless to say, I disagreed with her.

[HulaSista]

Originally posted by Brightness+
How many grew up with or provide their child with an AFTER DINNER snack?


i grew up with ice cream after dinner as the only desert option

my son gets water after dinner

anythign else, he went and snuck it when i wasn't looking

[HulaSista]

What do these two words mean to you?

snack is a noun and snacking is a verb

Have snacks & snacking changed since you were younger?

nope; i still love ice cream, candy and potatoe chips

Have you passed your method of snacking on to your children and if so, do you think that is good or bad?

i did. cause when he seen me snacking he would beg for it and if he didn't want it (90% of the time) he would ask for his own

[Brightness]

But wasn't dessert served immediately at the end of the finished meal? And not hours later like my friend's sister was suggesting?


Originally posted by HulaSista+



i grew up with ice cream after dinner as the only desert option

my son gets water after dinner

anythign else, he went and snuck it when i wasn't looking

[lovely]

Originally posted by Brightness+
But wasn't dessert served immediately at the end of the finished meal? And not hours later like my friend's sister was suggesting?




we rarely had dessert. when we did have dessert it was usually ice cream and cookies before bed.

now if we have dessert it is typically ice cream maybe an hour or so after dinner. but not with dinner.

[misha]

What do these two words mean to you?

Snacking used to mean death in my family. My parents were very much against it. To me, snacking means keeping the blood at an even level. Three meals will not do that.


Have snacks & snacking changed since you were younger?

Very much. I now incorporate regular snacks in between my meals, to the point of eating 3 meals, and 2 or sometimes 3 snacks. It was the way my mother ate to control her blood sugar, and it is recommended to keep the metabolism up.


Have you passed your method of snacking on to your children and if so, do you think that is good or bad?

I think that I have, and I am glad to pass some positive eating habits on to noodle.

[HulaSista]

Originally posted by Brightness+
But wasn't dessert served immediately at the end of the finished meal? And not hours later like my friend's sister was suggesting?




yeah it was right after dinner... sometimes right after dishes which was right after dinner

[Brightness]

. . .but some folks are resistant because they find it hard to eat in smaller quantities more frequently over the course of the day.

However, in all actuality it works well for everyone to keep your levels from unnecessarily peaking and falling throughout the day.

Another thing, that I'm fighting about over my daughter, is the downward spiral of. . .eating until you are FULL. Full being the state of stuffing yourself to where you feel your stomach expanding and tightening up to refuse more food. She actually gotten sick mimicking this behavior.

It's hard trying to keep her from falling into the pitfalls of food abuse/addiction when it's pushed upon her by grandparents and other "unhealthy eating" relatives.


Originally posted by misha+
I now incorporate regular snacks in between my meals, to the point of eating 3 meals, and 2 or sometimes 3 snacks. It was the way my mother ate to control her blood sugar, and it is recommended to keep the metabolism up.

[misha]

I used to do the same thing.....got to the point that if I felt a hunger pang, I panicked.

Once a person gets used to eating 6 times a day, the insulin level never dips to the point of causing extreme hunger. The metabolism seems to speed up to the point that you do get hungry, for the next meal, but there isn't that high peak, and crashing that a person gets from eating a few big meals.

I get that at work all the time....."well Michelle, seems like you eat all the time!!!" Humph....

[mystkev]

A snack is food that I use to tide me over to my next meal.

Snacking, is eating that food.

Yes, I would say that snacks have changed since I was younger. Snacks used to consist of graham crackers and peanut butter (y'all remember that from preschool...LOL), celery w/peanut butter, or just eating peanut butter straight out the container (y'all remember What's Happening), I probably drank milk w/that stuff (can't remember). I remember always having fruit in the house, can't say that I ate it. I have a thing about over riped fruit.

For younger people not sure what they eat. I think they have something called snackables or something (w/cheese, crackers, a cookie, and a fruit drink), right. I agree that they aren't as healthy. They eat a lot of chips too.

No kids.

My parents did not provide me w/an after dinner snack. Moms always made sure she covered all the food groups in a meal. I used to have tea before I went to bed, I guess that's not a snack.