What have your kids eaten today?

DS3 - no idea as he’s been at my mums most of the day.
DS7 - breakfast - brioche and strawberry’s.
snack- cherrys and a white kit kat
Lunch - cheese and salad sandwich, orange and pack of crisps.
snack - ice cream
Dinner - we had a bbq. Think he had steak and chicken wings

DS12 - breakfast - boiled eggs and toast
lunch - 2 chilli sausage rolls
snack - cookie and ice cream
dinner - steak, smash burger, chicken wings
(Was a bad day for fruit and veg for him)

2.5 year old
Wake up - satsuma x 2
Breakfast - crumpet with peanut butter & blueberries
Lunch - Tuna and cheese panini (ate about two thirds) and a few crisps.
Snack (4pm) - yoghurt and water melon
Dinner (6.30pm) - Salmon fillet (all) potato wedges (some) peas (all)
Cup of milk before bed

4yo and 1yo;
Breakfast - 4yo a yoghurt, an apple, half a pear and a little scotch pancake
1yo a shitload of rice crispies (her brother really wanted to sort her breakfast so I didn’t have any say 😂), the other half of her brothers pear and some ham (again, her brothers doing, she loves ham 😂)

Snack at toddler group - banana, grapes, rice cake, strawberries and cheese cubes (4yo also had buttered toast)

Lunch, at a cafe with my mum - cheese and ham toastie (4yo gave said ham to 1yo), cucumber, tomatoes, red pepper and 4yo had chips too

Afternoon snack (of sorts, while in the supermarket!) - 4yo sour cream and chive mini rice cakes
1yo prune pouch and a couple of the rice cakes

They shared a couple of leftover sausages from a bbq yesterday while I was cooking then tea was a sort of creamy rice ‘casserole’ of sorts, with chicken, broccoli etc. They absolutely loved it, then 4yo had a mini m&s pannacotta (fancy pants 😂) 1yo had a yoghurt

Teens aged 14-18

breakfast - cocopops
lunch - kfc meal
dinner - Pringles in the car (will make a sandwich when we get home)

This isn’t a standard day and was the first kfc 14 yos have ever had (second for 18yo). We went to a theme park.

Seems so! Mine ate an entire tub of popcorn at the cinema yesterday and had pasta for tea. But very strictly only penne with tomato puree and grated cheese. But the cheese and the pasta must be separate.

Never pursued it but he'd definitely meet the criteria for a diagnosis of ARFID!

14 and 15 year old boys
Breakfast- Yoghurt, strawberries, blueberries banana and pain au chocolat
Lunch was out- one had Mexican scrambled eggs on sourdough with a Nutella milkshake,
the other had a chilli chicken wrap and a mocha,
Dinner- peach and burrata salad with pistachios
barbecued steak, ciabatta, new potatoes, broccoli, asparagus,
hot pineapple and ice cream,
In the evening they ate half a pack of amaretti biscuits between them and probably had a chocolate biscuit, fruit, yogurt or crackers through the day. I don’t really monitor their snacks, they’re both fit and healthy.

Ds age 16
Breakfast- very large bowl of coco pops
Lunch - 2 x pork pies, ham sandwich, entire punnet of raspberries, blueberry protein yogurt
Dinner - (a bbq) 2 cheeseburgers, 1 pork skewer. Another burger but not on a bun.
Snack - chocolate chip cookie

I think we have similar 7 year olds! 😅

7 yo DD - fussy eater & has 2 uncomfortable wobbly front teeth at the mo which is affecting her diet further.

Not ‘average’ food days this week as it’s half term & 28 degree heat. She will only occasionally eat veg but usually has cucumber or pepper in sandwiches for packed school lunch & more fruit than today!

B: banana soreen bar, 2 strawberries, croissant with choc - hazelnut spread & tropical yoghurt drink

L: Minion plain pasta shapes with tomato ketchup (won’t eat homemade pasta sauce) and grated cheese, Cadbury’s mint chocolate ice cream

Snacks: popcorn, water, lemon Greek yoghurt, Ritz cheese cracker

DS 10 and DS6. On holiday atm.

Breakfast: yoghurt and fruit
After hiking: chocolate pastry from local bakery, DS6 had a few bites but didn't like it.
Lunch: Big sausage roll from the bakery, DS6 also had some wotsits.
After swimming snack: Apple
Dinner: fish and chips on the beach, DS10 had an icecream, DS6 had a couple of bites of icecream and then swapped for half my ring donut instead (DH got the icecream instead)

They also both had a couple of pieces of fudge from a souvenir shop.

Its the cereal consumption that amazes me. I also grow a lot of food, strawberries, gooseberries, black berries, raspberries, blueberries, rhubarb, apples, pears, cherries, plums and loads of veg. We have a few grape vines, but only get a few bunches per per and they can be a bit sour. It really helps.

Our 4yr twins and 5 yr

8am ish Breakfast 2 Weetabix with yogurt mixed in, slice of toast with jam and a banana each

12:30 ISH Lunch half a jacket potato for twins full for 5yr old with cheese savoury and side salad tomato,cucumber, beetroot followed by trifle and some strawberries

5ish Tea cheese and ham toasties, crisps, then a bowl with strawberries, grapes and apple and a yogurt

7:15ish just had 2 Weetabix and milk 5 yr has 3 Weetabix and now in bed done for the night

7 year old...

Breakfast approx 8am: small bowl of weetos (ate half)
Hungry at about 9:30am: grapes and 2 small/kids size bananas
Lunch at 12: bagel with a slice of cheese in it, yoghurt pouch, packet of quavers, soreen fruit loaf thing
1:30pm ish: ice cream - one scoop vanilla with sprinkles, ate about 1/4 (after I paid nearly 4 quid for it...!)
Snack about 3:30pm: quarter of a packet of pom bears
Snack at about 4:30pm: about half a pot of houmous and breadsticks
Dinner at 6: the other half a pot of houmous, ritz crackers, 2x yoghurts, quavers, pear

Sadly a standard day!

6 and 8 year old, half term.
breakfast - porridge with (frozen) cherries stirred through
lunch - homemade sausage roll (shop bought pastry), apple, yoghurt
tea - chilli con carne with rice, melon.
both had some millions sweets and the eldest had a tin of Aldi knock off Pepsi max.

BF - Son - multi grain cereal and milk, Daughter - Two nutella sandwiches

10 am Snack - Apple and pom bear( same for both) & water

12 pm Lunch - Son - Cucumber sandwiches, pick up , fruitshoot
Daughter - Chicken and bacon sandwiches, pick up, fruitshoot

2pm - Orange and wotsits ( same for both)

3.30 pm- Cereal bars for both

4.30 pm - Son - Toast -2 with butter, raisins
Daughter - toast - 4 with butter

6.30pm - Son/Daughter - Rice, lentils, fish fry and yoghurt, ice lollies

Both were at all day holiday club and played tennis all morning followed by football, dodgeball etc so this is what I packed and sent for them.

We can't! 💵

Breakfast cereal
Lunch barbecue meat sandwich
Tea pog soup
Snacks are ice cream and ice pops because its hot over here

Thank you for the compliment, Twister. The two I had today are the youngest of eight — the eldest is almost 21. I’m lucky that I’m given free rein with all of my brood, and it’s just as well I am because I could never get to grips with baby-led weaning. It scared the bejesus out of me, despite me trying to take it in my stride, and I was told very early on, “Just feed them the way you fed us.” So I did, and still do.

I have managed to adopt a lot of the new ways of doing things/ideas and I have the greatest respect for young parents today who have to know so much.

Would you believe that I breastfed 5 children, one of them for almost 3 years, but it was only when I became a granny for the first time that I learned how breast feeding actually worked. My daughter explained it to me. I’m in awe of the things my daughters and daughters in law know.

Oats/almonds/milk/banana for breakfast.

Packed lunch with brown rye bread sandwiches. 1 with ham & cheese and 1 with chicken & salad, cucumber, apple slices, 2 boiled eggs, nuts (yes, nuts are allowed). School dinners are cancelled by school this week. Secondary school.

Carrots + pizza slice (homemade pizza from yesterday's dinner) snack 10 am.

A sourdough bun with cheese and jam - after school snack.

Bread, tomato & smoked salmon and a fruit salad for dinner. Cold dinner ln Thursdays because of sport and late home.

DD - 13
No breakfast
Lunch - medium fries and shake at McDonald’s
Dinner - huge jacket with seafood cocktail / prawns and salad, beetroot

DS - 11
Breakfast - Fruit n fibre with semi skimmed milk
Lunch - Tuna, sweetcorn mayo sandwich, pepperami and a choc chip cereal bar
Snack - Magnum
Dinner - I think Chinese (sleepover at friends)

DS - 8
Breakfast - 2 x peanut butter on toast, glass of milk
Lunch - cheese & ham wrap, pepperami and grapes
Snack - magnum
Dinner - huge jacket with cheese, ham, spring onion & sour cream, loads of salad
Now just having some biscuits!

They’ve not been overly hungry this week with this heat and normally do eat more!

2 year old and 6 year old

Cereal with milk
Banana
Tuna sandwich with cucumber and tomatoes
An orange
A biscuit
Some chicken pieces
Beef stir fry
An ice lolly

They both eat almost equal amounts despite the age difference. Two year old ate slightly less of the stir fry.

Kids can eat an incredible amount of food. 4 year old today has had egg and soldiers for breakfast, usually has porridge. Lunch at nursery was a pasta dish with garlic bread. At home he’s had a plate of curry, rice and poppadoms followed by a bowl of strawberries and blueberries. He’s in the bath now, planning what his supper will be! He usually has something like a banana, yoghurt, oatcakes and cheese, peanut butter sandwich etc for supper. There have been evenings where he’s had all of these even after a big plate of dinner!

ALLLLL the ice lollies 😀

All kids -14, 11, 10 and 6 for breakfast:

Porridge with seeds/dried fruit and honey/banana or blueberries.
Juice
Toast with peanut butter

Packed lunch for the 11 year old at cricket camp

Boursin and cucumber sandwich (homemade bread, white)
Nature valley bar
A carrot
Satsuma
Banana
Melon and grapes
Plain yoghurt and honey
Mini cheddars

When he got in:

Cuppa soup (left over from D ofE!)
Penguin bar
Elderflower.lolly

Everyone else for lunch :

Indian carrot fritters /onion bajhis on pitta with yoghurt /green salad /mango chutney..

All.kids for supper

Omelette with cheddar, spinach and sweetcorn, chips, salad.and baguette
More melon.

They will have more snacks before bed, probably crumpets/fruit/nuts.
We are ALWAYS cooking or food shopping!