I'm guessing that since you are picking up close to dinner time your child is in daycare a full day. If that's the case he probably has a different teacher in the afternoon then he does in the morning. I actually kind of smiled reading your problem because I use to be a preschool teacher in a daycare. I had a teacher's aide in the afternoon that was young (19) and she liked to bring in extra "treats". When you talked about marshmellows being on top of the fruit cup... well, that was just the kind of thing she would do. As far as freeze pops go, we did give them to the kids in the summer. It was a nice cool treat to give them after we came inside from running around. I know that there is sugar in them,(they do make sugar free ones now) but they are very low in calories. In the afternoon, things were different. I'm not saying it's right but especially come Thurs/ Fri, kids that are in daycare care 10 hours a day, everyday, are done. Think about how you feel on Friday (I can say this now) aren't you just done by Friday between work and picking/dropping off at daycare and doing everything else? Sometimes it was all we could do to get the kids to do a project, promise a treat. I'm not saying it's right, not saying it's wrong either. I do get (now that I am a mom) that it's hard to have them eating snacks right before dinner. Maybe that's one of the things you can talk to the teacher/director about. See if she can move snack time? We use to have snack right after they got up from nap,(around 2pm) before we started any afternoon activites. If he has a different afternoon teacher, start with her. You might not need to go to the director. There are some great snacks out there (I'm sure his teacher knows plenty of them if she went to school for Early Childhood Development :)) that they can make at school and eat. Just wanted to give you another side....good luck.