During the pandemic, most of us were caught up at home, bored and munching on snacks. But unhealthy munching could only lead to obesity.
Mom-of-three and parenting blogger Jen Hallstrom shared fascinating tricks to put an end to unnecessary munching.
It worked!
She saw a viral trick on Pinterest and decided to implement it. “My two girls are complete bored snackers,” Hallstrom told Hiptoro. “I am also guilty of this! So this really helped us in the weird downtime we were in! My son is a fairly decent eater but ‘wants’ 4 snacks at a time. We loved how this eliminated that over the top snacking.”
“It worked really well,” Hallstrom said. “We are now back into a normal routine so there is not really a need for it now. But long breaks and summer break next year I will bring them back for sure!”
An added rule, ‘no stealing from the siblings’ baskets, but substitutes were allowed. “An example being ‘I don’t want an apple today, can I trade for a banana?’”
Hallstrom had usually put 3-4 snacks in there for the whole day and often found that they wouldn’t even eat all of those. “If it was a refrigerated snack like yogurt or veggies, it was stored in a certain bin in the fridge. They also only got one cup a day which really, really helped with my constant dishes problem.”
People absolutely adored the simple yet brilliant hack
Since everyone loved it so much, the mom decided to share more quarantine hacks as well:
