[blueknitter]

Mine are 3 and 10 and they seem to want something all the time. We have the "if you don't eat your meal, you don't get snacks" rule at our house, which takes care of a lot of the problems. As for snacks when they meet that one criteria, we have carrot sticks, raisins, prunes, saltines, dried apples, mini marshmellos, peanut butter with graham crackers, occassionally we'll have snacks like chips or cookies, or little debbies or something along those lines. When they eay those, though, it's like they are eating air. 10 minutes later they are back wanting something else, and that burns my cookies big time. What's the point of eating something to tide them over until the next meal, if it doesn't tide them over to the next meal? I usually don't even mess with those, it's just not worth it to me financially or nutritionally.