With the summer holidays almost upon us, I imagine you’re going to be hearing a lot of “I’m hungry, can I have a snack please?”!  

The key to reducing the demands for snacks is to think of them not as one item, such as a banana, an apple or a snack bar, but as a mini meal. A mini meal is not lots of food but just enough to fill them up and is one which contains a variety of foods to make it more sustaining – it keeps them going for longer.  

Try it when offering snacks over the next couple of weeks and let me know if this makes a difference.