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Mama Knows Nutrition: The Podcast

53: Should You Use a Kids Snack Drawer?

Mama Knows Nutrition: The Podcast

Kacie Barnes, MCN, RDN

Parenting, Self-improvement, Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family

5657 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Should you have a snack drawer for your young kids and should they be able to access snacks freely on their own? Pantry and cabinet organization is awesome, and the idea of your kids not bothering you every time they want a snack is definitely appealing. But the kids' snack drawer can lead to even bigger problems that you don’t want to deal with (ugh, no more problems please!). Listen in to hear why I don’t love this solution, and what I’d recommend you do instead. This episode was s...

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0:00.0

Should you have a snack drawer for your young kids and should they be able to access snacks freely on their own?

0:14.3

I'm Casey Barnes, a registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of two.

0:18.5

This is feeding toddlers made easy.

0:20.7

And this is the place where I really

0:22.3

aim to empower you as a parent, as a caregiver, so that you feel like you are in charge and your

0:29.3

toddler is not in charge of you. Who's in charge? You are. Anyway, you can grab any of the

0:37.1

resources we mentioned in the show notes.

0:39.2

Just go to mama knowsnutrition.com forward slash podcast.

0:43.6

You can also submit a question there to be featured on a future episode as well, and I would just love to hear from you.

0:50.2

So again, that's momanosnutrition.com forward slash podcast.

0:55.9

I saw this post by The Home Edit that inspired me to do this episode.

1:01.0

I love the Home Edit.

1:02.2

If you're not familiar with them, they do organization.

1:05.2

And I love a good organized drawer, a good organized pantry, closet.

1:10.0

Seriously, I love it. Like, you'll see my pantry

1:13.2

is super organized if you ever watch my Instagram stories or my reels and I'm in there all the time.

1:18.6

Operation Organizations who did it. Side note, Katrina here in Dallas, she turned it into this

1:24.0

organized wonderland in my pantry. It was at least a year ago. And honestly, one of the

1:30.5

main reasons that I felt sad when we bought our new house that we're moving into soon, we don't

1:35.5

have a pantry there. And I'm like, I'm going to lose my beautiful pantry. Our new house was built

1:41.7

like 40 years ago and it has no pantry and I'm irrationally sad about that.

1:49.0

So I am all in for the organization.

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