How much does your two year old eat?

[SinkGirl]

My twins turned two in September and it seems to me like they eat a lot but I have no frame of reference and they always finish everything. Just wondering what other two year olds eat really!

They are dairy free and at the moment they still have some dairy free formula, but will be changing that to oat milk when it runs out. One has a condition that affects his blood sugar so he needs to snack often, I just don’t want to feed them too much.

At the moment they have:
Morning: 120ml dairy free formula

Breakfast: 1.5 weetabix with half a mug of oat milk each

Mid-morning: Small snack (eg a couple of breadsticks, melty puffs, carrot and cucumber sticks or some fruit)

Lunch: a crumpet or half a ham / tuna sandwich and some fruit (share a big banana, or melon, mango grapes etc)

Mid-afternoon: Another snack (as above)

Dinner: Favourite is gnocchi (they each get 1/4 of a bag which is allegedly an adult portion according to the pack) with homemade tomato and veg sauce. If we are in a rush and having something quick, they’d have 3 fish fingers or chicken goujons, 1.5 potato waffles or a small handful of sweet potato chips and some veg. Or if they had beans on toast, they’d have a piece of toast and half a tin of beans each

Bedtime: 150ml dairy free formula

They drink plenty of water through the day and don’t have any juice or squash or any cakes, chocolate, biscuits etc. They always finish their meals which makes me worry it’s not enough, but honestly they eat more than I do.

They’ve always had a higher weight centile than height as they are tiny - one was born 0.4th for weight and not even near the chart for height. They’re now both 12th for height and 25th for weight.

Just want to make sure they’re getting the right amount. I know how lucky I am that they eat well, especially with the smaller one’s medical issues. They’ll eat most things at the moment which is fortunate.

My 19mo would eat that plus a banana with breakfast, a yoghurt with lunch, some rice pudding after dinner.

Doesn’t look that much to me

My 2.5 year old would eat more than that. He's bang on average for height and weight.

Yesterday he had:

Cup of milk
Bowl of shreddies
An apple
Slice of toast
Bag of mini cheddars after swimming
Cheese and turkey sandwich (2 slices bread)
Grapes
4 cocktail sausages
Couple of carrot sticks
Yogurt
Flapjack
Whole banana
Spaghetti Bolognaise (child ikea bowl full)
Yogurt

On nursery days he usually has toast before we leave, shreddies for breakfast, crumpets and fruit for snack, 2 course lunch, afternoon tea (beans on toast, tuna toasties etc) then lots between getting home and going to bed - crumpets, cheese, fruit, yogurt, couple of biscuits on an average day!

They are all different though and so long as they are growing I wouldn't worry!

Hmmm, mine eats less than that (not for lack of trying) but I give her more milk than you seem to so maybe that's why? Now I'm worried mines not getting enough! 

Hmm, maybe I should offer them more - they have been growing fine but want that to continue. I think maybe my view is impacted by the fact I don’t have much of an appetite so it seems like a lot! Think I’ll start giving them more at lunch and see how they go!

DD (nearly 2) varies a lot. Typically

Breakfast - 2 pieces of toast and marmite, small bowl of fruit and fibre (about one third an adult portion), sometimes a banana

Snack - bit of cheese, dates, oatcakes, satsuma

Lunch - peanut butter sandwich or pesto pasta, piece of fruit, handful of nuts

Snack - Maybe a small piece of cake, piece of crispbread, handful of sultanas

Dinner - pasta pesto, some bits of raw pepper or cucumber, maybe yoghurt with nuts and sultanas after

I think she eats too much fruit but it's not such a bad diet. Veg consumption is very hit and miss. Sometimes she doesn't touch her dinner, just the way it goes. She's always hungriest at breakfast.