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To ask what your primary kids eat in a typical week?

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Wildflowers99 · 17/04/2025 17:36

In terms of breakfast and dinner (not school dinners - nowt I can do about those outside of the menu!). I thought I was doing ok with mine but another thread has made me think twice; so interested to see what the norm is. Thanks!

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UsernameShmusername2024 · 17/04/2025 20:39

Kids aged 7 and 9

Breakfast usually cereal - always have a few options- shredded wheat, cheerios, shreddies, weetabix. Sometimes toast or a crumpet. Often a piece of fruit too. Porridge and berries at weekends sometimes.

Lunches at weekends- cheese toasties, ham/peanut butter/tuna sandwiches, avocado on toast, eggs, beans on toast, hummus and veg and toast to dip, usually involve tomatoes, cucumber, raw carrot and raw pepper with all those options. Dessert will be fruit, yogurt, biscuits, chocolate/ cake if we have some.

Snacks - fruit, cereal bars, crisps, babybels etc

Dinners - feel like we have a small and shrinking rotation of meals! Roasts, spaghetti bolognese, chilli / burritos, prawn/chicken stir fry with noodles/rice, omelettes, curry, lasagne, tuna pasta bake, easy oven dinners (pizza/chicken dippers/quorn nuggets/chips) with carrots/sweetcorn/broccoli/green beans/ beans. Desserts same as lunch

LondonFox · 17/04/2025 20:35

Breakfast: cereals few times a week as they eat in nursery/school
Lunch: whatever place they go to provides
Snack: shitton of fruit
Dinner: roast chicken, fish, mince with pasta, chicken soup, some sort of meat in cream sauce, seafood mix, some sort of junk food.
Basically above rotates every week with slightly different spices so I can call it "italian/greek/asian".
During weekend we have at least one lunch that is egg based.
Thry drink yogurt and milk, somwttimes juice when unwell just to get something in them.
And I do feed ice cream, chocolate, cookies etc. almost every day in a small amount.

BuzzYourGirlfriendWoof · 17/04/2025 20:32

9 and 11 year olds:

B on a school day: 2 egg omelette followed by cereal of choice or sourdough toast. In the holidays, I might do lean bacon medallions, scrambled egg and sourdough. Daughter will have Greek yoghurt, homemade granola (takes 5 mins in air fryer) & fruit

Dinners: creamy garlic chicken, paprika chicken, chicken sausage stroganoff, fry up, curries, stir fry, salmon, chicken pizza (just flattened chicken breast with pizza type toppings), pork schnitzel, roast dinners, fajitas, steak & homemade chips.

I aim for high protein dinners, lots of veg and a usually potatoes for carb or homemade flat bread. We rarely have pasta or rice as neither are huge fans

SkeletonBatsflyatnight · 17/04/2025 20:29

10 (ds) and 6 (almost 7 dd)

Breakfast is one of the following: small bowl of cereal or porridge, slice of toast with jam, Greek yogurt with honey, 2 homemade pancakes with fruit with either a glass of milk or water.

Dinner is trickier due to likes/dislikes. Tonight we had roast chicken with new potatoes and salad. Tomorrow it will be chicken noodle soup made from the leftovers with a soft boiled egg and brocolini. Other stables include bolognese, chicken or fishfinger burgers with chips and salad. The night (tues) we're super busy after school is soup and a toasted sandwich. Friday is often make your own pizza with various toppings. Dippy eggs and omelettes always go down well.

Ds will eat most things. Dd is harder but loves prawns and smoked salmon so can usually give her those instead if we're having a protein she doesn't like.

We eat dessert maybe twice a week but I often offer fruit with dinner. That started as a "picky" plate thing when ds was tiny and far more picky and has stuck.

rainbowsandraspberrygin · 17/04/2025 20:24

10 and 8 year old here:

b - porridge, w/bix, various cereals - sometimes fruit or some toast. Sometimes scrambled egg or crumpets. Variety really!

L - usually sandwich or bagel with ham, tuna, peanut butter, marmite, smoked salmon (try to only have ham twice per week). Then add 2x fruits/veg, sometimes crisps, yogurt (vary frubes or plain), sometimes a baby bel, or a small biscuit. That’s for packed lunch. At home it could be beans on toast, scrambled egg , soup, pasta….

D - at after school club is limited and often pixza/pasta etc. at home it will be a chilli, spaghetti bol, sausage and mash, salmon and rice, roast, curry, jacket potatoes, meatballs, homemade chicken burgers, not homemade beef burgers, fajita type wraps and salads.

snacks - fruits, veg, biscuits, cake if we have it, ice cream. Try to do healthy first. Rice cake and peanut butter is a good one.

ETA - drinks: water, squash, milk and fizzy for a special occasion or a Saturday sometimes.

Prepositional · 17/04/2025 20:20

B - Weetabix, Shredded Wheat or porridge, sometimes followed by toast, cornflakes or rice crispies.

D - very often have: pasta with a smooth but veg heavy sauce, bean chilli and rice, homemade pizza, fish fingers and homemade wedges, stir fry, curry or roast dinner. Nearly always have a pudding of something like a couple of chocolate fingers or a scoop of ice cream.

They drink water maybe 95% of the time. Occasionally milk or fresh apple/orange.

Bushmillsbabe · 17/04/2025 20:14

5 and 9 year old

B - cereal - usually weetabix or similar, and a banana/apple or a smoothie
L - sandwich, raw veg (cucumber/pepper/tomato), crisps and fruit
D - roasts, curry, pasta, sausages, fish etc, with veg, and a yogurt
Snacks - cereal bars, dried fruit, Ice lollies, flapjack etc

Luckily mine are pretty good eaters, but one is coeliac which makes it a bit harder, and more expensive

hazelnutvanillalatte · 17/04/2025 20:06

Some have porridge with seeds most mornings, some toast or cereal. For dinner I aim for a protein, a carb and a vegetable. So chicken, pasta, and salad, or tofu, rice, and broccoli, or chicken soup with orzo, or meatball and vegetable soup with garlic bread, or beef casserole with dumplings. Just mix and match

troppibambini6 · 17/04/2025 18:02

I have three I’m still responsible for feeding. The older three have flown the nest but actually do turn up now and then and expect food!

The 14 year old isn’t a big breakfast eater and eats lunch at school. She eats her evening meal with us though.
The 11 and 10 year old usually have something like:

B- bake in the oven croissants with fruit and apple juice
L- sandwich or pitta, crisps, yogurt, fruit, a little chocolate bar (packed lunch)
S- fruit and a biscuit or small chocolate bar.
D- roast/ curry/ pasta/ fajitas typical family meal
S- crumpets or toast before bed

They are all very sporty and train 4/5 times a week.

rainbowunicorn · 17/04/2025 17:56

Might be better if you give an example menu over a few days and people can give you advice based on that.

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