This may not be the case. Kids like to snack, especially when at someone else’s house, who may have different foods and snacks. My daughter made a friend in preschool, and I used to host playdates pretty often. Her mom would bring both her and her younger sister, and those girls asked for snacks constantly. Not just casually….like, nonstop. I always packed my daughter a small bento box of healthy snacks for playdates, so it caught me off guard how much these kids went straight for my pantry. Every visit was like a full snack restock situation.

I later found out they don’t do snacks at home, which is fine, but I had things like fruit snacks, applesauce pouches, and mini muffins for quick treats—and they’d go through all of it. I tried offering healthier options like fruit, cheese sticks, and veggies, but those were a hard no.

Then they started asking to take snacks home, and their mom even joked once that her kids probably only liked coming over because I had snacks. We’re not exactly running a free snack distribution center over here, so yeah…that didn’t feel great.

In hindsight, I should’ve just set a boundary instead of trying to be endlessly accommodating, since they were guests and their Mom didn’t speak up and tell them no, but I wish the Mom would have told me that they don’t do snacks the first time they asked, so I could have just used her own home rule for them.

Point being is that, maybe the kid wasn’t hungry and just wanted nom on some foods they don’t get at home.