What have your kids eaten today?

Mine are 4 and 6 are are on holiday,so they've had
Breakfast - chocolate cereal. The eldest also had half an almond pastry with me
Lunch - ham and cheese sandwich, crisps, an apple
Dinner - a steak hache (beef burger), new potatoes and a ton of green beans.
Snacks - 2 ice lollies and grapes

A normal day would look a lot more like -
Porridge with honey and chia seeds (or shreddies)
Lunch - half a packet of crisps, cucumber or carrot, apple or pear, ham, cheese
Dinner - sausage and lentils casserole, mince with a blended veggie sauce and rice, pork with wedges, corn, broccoli, etc. chocolate mousse for pudding. They dont massively snack, maybe an ice lolly or a lollipop from the shop..and fruit. Lots of fruit

Ds1 a 6’2” teen has eaten:

overnight oats, blueberries and banana. Bagel and peanut butter.

yoghurt and strawberries.

egg and avocado salad, apple, kiwi, pear.

Homemade protein shake

salmon, sweet potato and broccoli for dinner..

no doubt will have fruit toast later or a tea cake.

drinks black tea and water.

My other younger ones have all eaten roughly the same but less and minus the snacks.

I think it is pretty much ok OP.

If you were really wanting to tweak, I'd try to slip in at least one portion of greens each day, and I am not a fan of jar sauce as it is truly so easy to simmer your own cherry tomatoes (or even a tin of chopped tomatoes) and just blitz it to avoid all the stabilisers, salt and often sugar in a jar sauce! DC won't know the difference.

68 year old granny and 2 grandchildren aged 4 and 6 for the day.

Breakfast - vegetable omelette with sourdough toast and butter

Snack - yoghurt

Lunch - pan fried salmon, baked potato, avacado salad and homemade dressing.

snack - mini sized bounty each plus mango slices

Dinner - roast chicken thighs, carrots, broccoli, mashed potato and gravy.

Breakfast: Jordans country crisp with oat milk.

Lunch: Sausage, beans and chips.

Snack: Handful of chocolate chips

Dinner: Vegan aubergine and courgette mousaka and salad.

He's 14

The last few days he's pretty much lived off salad and cereal because it's been so hot.

10 year old dd:
fruit salad with Greek yogurt
chicken and lettuce baguette
carrot Batons and grapes
Turkey burger (home made) with salad
lemonade ice lolly

11 year old
I think he had some Pokemon cereal for breakfast. Beyond that…I don’t think he’s had anything else.
8 year old
He had some strawberries this morning and I think he had a go ahead bar around lunch time. Again, beyond that he hasn’t had anything.
Ive only had a cold bacon sandwich all day. Husband had a slice of quiche and some bread and butter.
It’s not like everyone’s starving either. And they all know they can get food. But no one seems to want to eat in the holidays.

Teenager revising for A levels:

Breakfast 9am: Smoked salmon, cream cheese bagel thin.

Lunch 12pm: Rana mushroom tortellini with tomato mascarpone sauce.

Snack 2pm: M&s cream cheese stuffed red peppers.
(I don’t think there were any other snacks but she might have things in her bedroom).

Supper: 5pm: Steak on the bbq, watermelon, mint, cucumber feta salad, mangetout, carrots.

I guarantee she will want another full meal or a lot of snacks before bed but she’ll make it herself. We eat early as we intermittent fast most days.

Breakfast - granola with milk

Snack - pomegranate seeds and garibaldi biscuits

Lunch - ham sandwiches

Snack - popcorn

Dinner - not decided

7 year old-
Weetabix (2) with milk and a big cup of milk

Lunch - cheese sandwich, apple, pineapple juice

Snack- 2 chocolate almonds and another cup of milk

Dinner- she's having rice and peas with fish
Sponge cake after.

breakfast: chocolate crepes and a compote

snack: apple and breadstick

lunch: carrot sticks, tomato + tuna + mozarella and some crisps
yogurt and grapes

afternoon snack: an ice lolly, and a couple of chocolate biscuits

diner:
cucumber then omelette, slice of toast
yogurt

that sounds fine OP but I think kids sometimes are just like bottomless pits aren’t they!

My 7 year old DSS is AuDHD so sometimes can be very weird with and around food but today has been a good day. He generally is more of a snacker than a meal eater but does eat quite healthy snacks and eats A LOT of cucumber.

B - cinnamon cereal
L - cheese and ham toastie with grapes, strawberries and 2 satsumas
D - ham and vegetable tart with potatoes and cucumber
S - cucumber, some crisps, a couple of ice poles

Holy moly, how can people afford teenage boys!!

Four year old, solo parenting, day 4 of half term, not a great eater 😵‍💫

Breakfast - cereal and brioche (homemade brioche but brioche nonetheless!!!)

Morning snack - carrot cake (met a friend for coffee,they stole some of mine)

Lunch - Broccoli and green vegetable soup, ham wrap, cucumber and carrot batons (cucumber and carrot firmly rejected)

Afternoon snack - Apple and peanut butter

Dinner - Roast chicken with mash, peas (maybe eaten 4??), tenderstem broccoli (inhaled broccoli soup, refused to eat this broccoli) and gravy

After dinner - Natural yogurt with honey and frozen berries

I’d say yours are doing absolutely fine OP!! I’m a year 1 teacher and I’ve seen kids thrive on plain baked potatoes and literally nothing else 🤦🏻‍♀️ I give mine vitamin drops and trust they’ll get less fussy as they get older - I eat everything now and was SUCH a poor eater when younger!

My teen, currently in the middle of his GCSE:

Breakfast - museli, with pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, flax seed, bee pollen, semi skimmed milk and berries. Followed an hour later with 2 scramlbed eggs on 1 slice of toast.

Snack - apple

Lunch - ham and lettuce sandwich on a wholemeal roll, satsuma and yellow pepper on the side

Snack - 3 weetabix, handful of mixed nuts with semi skimmed milk

Dinner - will be steak, home made sweet potato fries, mushroom, and purple brocoli

He will likely have peanut butter on toast for supper.

For context he is 6ft 1, plays sports and bike rides and is very slim. I think i should have bought shares in cereal when he was younger.