I got the errands run and the car back in the garage just as the rain started. At that point it wasn't freezing rain but now my living room window is covered in ice so I'm glad I got home when I did.
I had a long time at the bulk food store. I had a coupon for $3 off if I bought $10 but I had used another one of those earlier this week so was having trouble thinking what to buy. I remembered the cereal bars that our NZ friend made, that dh loved so I phoned him and had him send me the recipe. Those ingredients (nothing fancy but I didn't have 1/2 of them in my pantry) plus dried apple chips for dgs and popcorn for me brought me to $19.
I knew I could put the apple chips back but am interested in trying them myself. He loves apples and loves 'crackas' (chips, crackers or cookies, plus he thinks the yellow circles in his books are crackers and not the sun!) so I'm hoping this is a healthy treat he can have at my place from time to time or if I'm out with him. He's allowed raisins as well, so I'm keeping those on hand and I'll let him have goldfish crackers sometime soon. Dd and dsil are weird about what he's allowed to have so I have the impression he can't have baked goods or junk food from me, but he does get it on occasion at home.
I fed my kids differently, putting out only healthy items almost all the time and letting the kids eat when they felt like it. If they came to me asking for food while I was making dinner, I'd put out a snack for them. If they 'ruined' their dinner, it was just because they had carrot sticks, cheese and maybe a cracker or two while I was cooking and the dinner would appear as a snack later or lunch the next day. My goal was to let them decide when they were hungry and how much they'd eat.
Dd instead is strict about meal and treat times, and chooses from foods she knows he likes plus those she's introducing, but then he can eat as much or little as he wants (so she controls items and time but he controls volume.) If he indicates he wants food, I can't give it to him unless we are at a snack time (which is determined by the time since the last eating, not time on the clock since his sleep has no patterns at all so he can start the day anywhere between 6 and 9 in the morning.)
This difference isn't a big deal except at big family meals where I may put out veggies and dip and cheese and crackers for people to have as an appetizer while the big meal is being prepared (since a turkey dinner seldom arrives at the table when I think it will.) That interferes with dd controlling snack time.
My watch timer is about to go off and I think the house cleaner will appear then. The vacuuming should be done while there's daylight even if it is a dull day.