What have your kids eaten today?

Breakfast Granola and greek yoghurt

Lunch wrap with home cooke dham, cheese and mayo

Cucumber slices, cherry Tom's, small tub of gherkins, peperorami

School tour so small chocolate bar

Snack 4 corncakes and peanut butter

Dinner beans, sausages, toast

Breakfast Granola and greek yoghurt

Lunch wrap with home cooke dham, cheese and mayo

Cucumber slices, cherry Tom's, small tub of gherkins, peperorami

School tour so small chocolate bar

Snack 4 corncakes and peanut butter

Dinner beans, sausages, toast

Peach, burrata and pistachios? That sounds delish! How exactly was it done? Ie any dressing or seasoning? I'd like to make that. ☺️

Mine are teens, so it’s harder to
quantify! But roughly I think:

Breakfast

Ds1/dd - no breakfast
ds2 - blueberries, pomegranate, honey, yoghurt

Lunch

Eggs on (homemade) sourdough toast with various bits to taste - guacamole, wasabi salt, furikake, cherry tomatoes. They each made their own to their taste.

Dinner

Chicken pesto pasta - made the pesto myself (standard pesto with basil, etc).

Apples with peanut butter

Not our best veg day!

B:
DC1: water, 1/2 banana, whole wheat seeded sourdough toast with butter and PB
DC2, 1/4 bagel w butter, 1/2 banana

L:
Both DC: grapes, strawberries, Mandarin orange, bell pepper slices, cucumber spear,1/2 chicken thigh.
DC2 also had 1/2 croissant
DC1 had 8oz homo milk

Both have had 2 Oreo's now. We're heading out to spray park. Both will have water, especially DC2 who hasn't wanted to drink anything for some reason. Dinner will be left-over chicken with brown/wild rice mix, roasted asparagus and green beans. They'll both likely get yoghourt and berries after dinner. I've also just boiled some eggs to give them when we get home while I prepare dinner.

DD13 had a bowl of cereal for breakfast.
DS6 had banana, strawberries, blueberries and Greek yoghurt.

DD then made mini pancakes for them both mid morning.

Lunch was peanut butter on rice cakes, mini cheddars, few chunks of cheese and some grapes for DS. Dd didn’t want anything.

DS and I had a cheeky McFlurry this afternoon whilst DD was out with her friend.

Dinner was cheese and beans on toast which they requested. Pudding was ice cream

Snacks: cucumber, carrot sticks, hummus, red pepper and an ice lolly. Definitely more fruit!!

On half term so looks a bit different to our usual weekly meal plans etc…..

What do you mean by that? The majority of posts on this thread are just normal food and diets? Which are you referring to?

Nearly 2 year old.

over night oats for breakfast

snack of berries and yogurt

lunch was a Spanish chicken type thing with potato, chicken and tomatoes/peppers

shared my old school sprinkle cake

tea was popcorn chicken, rice cakes, more fruit

mini milk ice lolly

cup of milk

I think you're doing pretty well OP!

We've had a less than ideal day today with 4y.o.

Breakfast - picky plate of buttered bread, cheese, pecans, grapes, dried apple, dried apricots, multivitamin gummy. Refused the bread and most of the grapes.

Lunch - we were out so a National Trust "kiddy meal deal" of cheese sandwich, raisins, crisps, small chocolate bar (oops) and some kind of masquerading as healthy juicey water stuff..

Dinner - vegetable stir fry with egg and rice noodles. Ate about 1/3rd and picked out the egg. Not convinced she took in a lot of the veg either.
A mango ice lolly.

No snacks. I don't think she's hungry in the heat.

20 month old:
Cup of whole milk and half a banana. Chocolate chip breadstick
Smoothie (banana, almond milk, Green yoghurt, Raspberry kefir)
Carrot, sweet potato and leek soup, then some chicken and rice
Another cup of milk and a sweet potato waffle
Dinner was cooked pumpkin, minced beef, spoonful of rice and sauerkraut, plus 2 kumquats
Another cup of milk before bed
At least half of this was fed to the dog under the table

8 year old:

Breakfast : Boiled egg with toast and butter with a glass of milk

Lunch: Sandwich with cream cheese and cucumbers and some grapes

Snack: Homemade smoothie with banana and frozen strawberries

Dinner : Salmon and vegetables, and 2 kiwis for dessert.

By comparison my 6 year old has had 850mls of neonate mixed with 200mls of dioralyte. He's tube fed over 20 hours of the day, that gives him 850 calories a day, he also has a supplement to make sure he gets the micronutrients he needs as his calorie intake is low.

12yo, who's in good health: porridge with honey for breakfast, an orange and some melon mid-morning, a Greggs sausage roll for lunch, cucumber, apple and an ice-pop over the course of the afternoon and a thin steak with chips, salad and onion rings for dinner.

6yo, who's really under the weather and struggling to eat at all: lots of dioralyte, a Freddo as compensation for horrible aniseedy medication, and the inside of a jacket potato mashed up with ketchup (her suggestion, not mine) for dinner, and that's been all she can manage today. Poor poppet.

It's MN

where ALL the children have the very best and balanced diet in the world

But where mums (usually mums on here) CLAIM to be overweight themselves, or a perfectly "average size 16+" and anyone eating less than 4000 calories a day is either lying, a compulsive under-eater or fat shaming 😂

I would take a lot of posts with a very big pinch of salt

Some of the replies 🤣 my dc go to a private school and there was absolute uproar in the GC a few weeks back because some of us - shock - put crisps in the snack bags!! Poor little tarquín was envious he had to settle for salmon and carrot sticks 🙄

mibe have had

Breakfast: toast/cereal
Lunch: cucumber sandwich, yoghurt, strawberries, watermelon, crisp, fruit wind up, sausage roll,
snacks: chocolate bar, plain pasta (?!), various other bits of fruit
dinner: dominos

never sick, great weights, perfect teeth 🤷‍♀️

11 and 9 year old, vegetarian. We are on holiday and walking/swimming all day so more treats than usual.

Breakfast- fried mushroom, courgette, onion and pepper in olive oil with salt and pepper. Scrambled egg. Hash brown. Baked beans Half a piece of white bread toast and half a piece of wholemeal toast (as requested) 9 year old just ate the fried veg and some beans, refused everything else even toast, looked at eggs as if they were literal excrement.

Picnic Lunch- 11 year old didn't want a sandwich. Ate leftover butternut squash, canellini bean, tomato, red onion, coriander salad. Piece of cherry cake. Crisps. Grapes. Extra mini tomatoes. 9 year old didn't eat the salad but had a coleslaw and lettuce sandwich instead. Yes, just coleslaw and lettuce. On crap white bread.

Snacks ice cream. 2 Oreos. Banana for 11 year old, apple for 9 year old. 9 year old also didn't eat the cone on the ice cream (nice waffle cone too crunchy apparently)

Dinner- chick pea vegetable stew. Rice. Full fat Greek yoghurt. 9 year old refused rice.

Cocoa and 2 Oreos for pudding.

Older kid isn't fussy, is slim and runs around all day/does a lot of sport but we don't usually have this much sugar!! Younger seems to hate most carbs apart from mashed potato, chips or flatbread, is skinny as a rake and very tall, especially hates toast and calls it "hard bread"

5 year old dd (ds in nursery so gets his meals there).
Breakfast - porridge with raspberries
Lunch - smoked salmon sandwiches with cucumber sticks followed by yoghurt and mango slices
Dinner - Noodle stir fry with stir fry veg and chicken, followed by jelly
Snacks - ice lolly, strawberry and banana smoothie (homemade), melon, bread sticks

Fairly typical menu for us when it’s not a school day.

Honestly I fear for the teenage years because my 4 year old and 7 month old eat me out of house and home.

breakfast
4 year old: 2 homemade banana pancakes, 2 bowl or cornflakes, toast and butter
7 month old: ready brek with blueberries and 1 banana pancake

lunch
leftover pasta bolognaise for both. 4 year old also ate mine and I had to make something else 🙃. Ice cream sandwhich after for the 4 year old.

snack
7 month old: melty stick
4 year old: 6 chocolate covered rice cakes, grapes, strawberries, raspberries and 2 bananas

dinner
lentil Dahl and Nan bread for both

Supper
4 year old: 3 crackers and butter, a whole orange, chocolate buttons, blueberries and 2 glasses of milk.

We call time on food and hour before bed and he tells us he is hungry at least 10 times during that hour.

7 month old also still breastfeeds 3-4 times a day.

I have spoke to multiple health professionals about the fact my 4 year old can’t be filled, they just laugh at me because he’s so thin. To be fair he sleeps all night so he can’t actually be that hungry still.

5 year old -

Homemade banana pancake with chocolate spread

Sausage roll

Half an apple, a few blueberries

Tuna with spaghetti and grated cheese, an olive, a cherry tomato, a carrot stick.

A vanilla ice-cream cone.

We're on holiday so slightly different food to normal for our 5 year old.

Breakfast - pain au choc. Apple.

Snack - choc chip brioche.

Lunch - Baguette with butter, cheese, crisps. Cherries.

Snack - mini muffin, handful of peanuts.

Tea - Cheese and tomato crepe with sausage. Olives on side. Peach. Smarties ice cream. Demanded an apricot as well but I said no!

Also have 6 and 3 year olds.

breakfast - cereal and milk
snack - 6yo had a barney bear (healthy I know!), 3yo was at nursery and didn’t tell me a straight answer on whether she ate snack or not
lunch - 6yo had a school dinner (quorn dog… but with salad she was insistent on telling me!)
3yo had a packed lunch (ham sandwich, grapes, strawberries and a packet of hula hoops)
snack - banana
tea - tomato pasta, followed by a yoghurt
“supper” - apple

So my fussy children have eaten a decent amount… taking it as a win

Been out for the day so took a packed lunch. 10 and 8 year old:

Breakfast - both had shreddies
Snack - 10 Yr old had a packet of belvita breakfast biscuits
Lunch- 8 year old - tuna sandwich, wotsits, apple, banana, ginger nut biscuit.
10 Yr old - cheese and carrot sandwich, hula hoops, apple, banana, ginger nut biscuit.
Snack - mango sorbet
Dinner- should've been homemade chicken, veg and lentil curry with rice but we were back late so wanted something quick and easy. Frozen battered cod (8 year old), chicken Kiev (10 year old), both with new potatoes, broccoli, corn on the cob, choc biscuit for dessert.
8 year old was then hungry and had a slice of bread with peanut butter before bed

11 year old -

Toast with chocolate spread
Tuna, cucumber and red pepper wrap
Banana
1/4 quiche with peas, broccoli, carrots and new potatoes
Rhubarb crumble and custard

9 year old -
same apart from honey on toast and wrap was ham and cheese with cucumber

3 YO and 6 YO.

approx. 50 ice lollies and very little else.

it’s 28 degrees and we are all clinging on for dear life ✌️

Not that bad … my 10 year old pretty much eats this, probably smaller portions!