We've got 3 kids and my wife swears by buying bulk snacks at Costco. I say they eat it in 3 days and we end up throwing half away. She says I'm being wasteful. We're both kind of right and it drives me crazy. What's the happy medium here? Are your kids normal with portion control or is this just a us thing?
My kids eat like they're training for the Olympics so bulk snacks are survival. Real talk though - if you're throwing half away, she's also kind of wasting money? Maybe the compromise is she picks 2-3 things to buy in bulk per run instead of everything?
We've found that buying bulk snacks actually HELPS portion control because we pre-portion everything Sunday night into little bags. Takes like 20 mins and the kids grab a bag instead of going to town on the whole box. Game changer honestly.
The real move is just accepting that snacks disappear and budgeting for it as part of your grocery costs. My wife and I fought about this forever until I realized I was being weirdly controlling about food. Kids are growing. They eat. Buy the bulk snacks and let it go 😅
lol you're not wrong about the waste but honestly with 3 kids the per-item cost savings add up. We just... stopped having those snacks visible? Keep the bulk box in the garage and portion it into smaller containers in the pantry. Makes it feel less infinite to them.
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The 3-day thing is real. We bought a bulk box of goldfish crackers and they were gone in like 48 hours. But we have 4 kids so maybe that's the difference? My wife and I compromised - she can buy bulk snacks BUT only things that have a longer shelf life. Dried fruit, granola bars, that kind of stuff. Fresh stuff like chips we still do regular portions.
Okay but what snacks are actually getting thrown away? That matters. If it's fresh stuff like fruit yeah that's wasteful but shelf-stable stuff that expires in a year? You're prob fine.