Tuesday, September 15, 2026

🌿 Wellness

The Gouter and Nothing Else

French children eat at four in the afternoon, properly and sitting down, and then nothing until dinner. It is a real meal with bread and chocolate rather than a bag of something.

If there are children in your house, make the afternoon snack a fixed sit-down event at a fixed time. It removes the grazing that follows an unstructured afternoon.

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