Is food a massive issue in your house because it seems to be this huge deal in ours. My boys are food crazy. They just want to eat all day long and go balisitic if food is denied to them. Currently ds2 is in a half an hour long temper tantrum because I won't let him have biccies so close to lunch time. I am not super strict on food times for the kids, they have there snacks between meals but I do like to leave an hour or so before their major meals so they are not full up on snacks when the time comes but that hour tends to be fraught with screaming and tantrums from both boys. The first words I hear out of ds1 at any time is I am hungry. Last night after eating a full dinner and desert he had a meltdown because I wouldn't let him have chocky biccies before bed. He couldn't have been hungry and yet these kids buzz around me all day looking for food. I feel like I am raising vultures instead of children... anytime anyone has anything to eat they are buzzing around even if they have just eaten. Whenever we visit anyone, even if it is someone they don't know the first thing they ask for as they enter the house is for food. It seems all our battles are over food. It drives me completely crazy... is this normal or are my children just vultures.