Ending Continual Snacking

[kcnjason]

After going through a summer with a group of older kids I have realized I need to put and end to all of the snacking. They eat me out of house and home. My mom always used that phrase when I was a kid and now I know how she felt. I think that I struggle with snacks often because my own 2 girls are home and they of course are comfortable getting snacks anytime they want, which makes it hard to daycare. They do understand that I have the daycare kids and that they can't eat whenever but it seems that they are always wanting a "little more snack" and I have been too leniant. The problem is myself more so than the kids. How do you enforce only certain meals and snacks? I think when my youngest starts kindergarten this year it will be easier for me to crack down about that snacking.