If my girls eat a good dinner they get to have a bedtime snack. Sometimes it's a treat but most of the time I like it to be something with not a ton of sugar.
What do you typically give your LO as a bedtime snack?
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Usually fruit right after dinner but they can something special 1-2 a week. They usually pick popcorn, ice cream or a Popsicle.
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We've been doing popcorn lately with an air popper.
Or an apple or banana. Sometimes a popsicle. In the summer when DH worked late DS and I would each have a popsicle while walking around the neighbourhood. It was fun.
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We eat dinner early now that I work from home so after dinner they can have a treat but if they want a snack before bed they can choose btwn oatmeal, yogurt or a bowl of cereal
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We do fruit after dinner if she still wants something more, it's either yogurt or cheese.
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Usually a cheese stick or cottage cheese, sometimes fruit.
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DS gets a Yakult or two in the bath - keeps him regular and he really loves the taste. Sometimes I'll give him an ice cream cone instead (like 3 tablespoons of ice cream and sprinkles in a cake cone). No mess and it makes him happy.
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usually a banana and /or a string cheese.
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Drinkable yogurt or dry cheerios. But I'm trying to get out of this habit.
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Apple
Pop corn
Peas and carrots in a bag....lol
She is a weirdo -
We've never done bedtime snacks. LO2 drinks her milk while we read stories and sometimes LO1 will ask for a pouch for during stories so she doesn't feel left out. But otherwise, no real foods.
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Am I the only parent who doesn't give late night snacks? I feel like my child uses snacks as an excuse to stay up later and also to eat less dinner so I tell her no.
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Never - we head for bed not long after eating. (Dinner usually 530/6 and they are usually really slow eaters.)
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@caterw: I dunno, I guess we don't have that problem, but my son isn't super food motivated. We eat dinner at 530pm and my son really only gets snacks (other than his probiotic drink) if he's eaten well. We usually indulge him because it means he's going through a growth spurt. Tonight he ate a huge dinner and then by 630pm he asked for a banana. He ate a massive 12 inch banana, then asked for his yogurt drink, and then he got a tiny ice cream cone in the bath because he pooped on the potty (usually he only gets like a few fruit snacks but he asked for ice cream today and I thought why not). He was in bed with no complaints by 730pm.
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If he eats all his dinner and wants a snack (which is 90%) of the time then he can have one. If he doesn't finish his dinner or a good portion of it at least then it stays on the table for him if he's hungry later.
Most of the time his snack are healthy but sometimes it will be fruitsnacks or a bearpaw.
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@caterw: laughing at these being late night. I know what you mean but probably most of these kids are eating their bedtime snacks by 7 pm.
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No snacks. We start the bedtime routine right after dinner though.
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@caterw: it probably just depends on when people eat dinner in relation to when they go to bed. My kids eat from 6-6:30 usually, and are in bed at 7:30. So there isn't much time to be hungry in between those things, and also I just don't want a snack after dinner to be a thing, because I prefer for them to just eat their real dinner. And I am not willing to prepare healthier snacks like cooked vegetables and cut/wash fresh fruits after I've already prepared a dinner. I'm too lazy and I feel like I personally would resort to packaged carb like snacks or sweets if after dinner snacks were a thing.
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It's just another component of the daily food consumed, but if my son is hungry, I do not deny him food. He can have an applesauce pouch, a smoothie, cereal bar, cheerios with milk, that kind of thing.
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No bedtime snacks for us - We do dessert after dinner though if we had time and if he had a really good dinner. Bath follows right after dinner, then teeth brushing and reading and bed....so there is really no time. DS also seldom complains he's hungry. If he does complain because he didn't have a good dinner, then too bad he should have eaten and there is no more food until breakfast. If there was indeed a growth spurt and he was hungry after he ate everything at dinner, I would consider giving him some milk before brushing teeth.
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My LO is 22 months, eats dinner around 5:45/6 and is in bed by 7pm so I don't see why she'd need a snack.
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