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What do your 5 year olds eat

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Zombiemama · 25/05/2020 12:34

Routine is definitely out the window to an extent with lockdown.

Dd is constantly asking for snacks even though we are keeping her occupied so im unsure if boredom is a factor

What does a typical day of eating look like for your child?

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LoisLittsLover · 25/05/2020 12:41

8:30 - breakfast. Usually cereal plus fruit and maybe a slice of toast

Midday - lunch. Cheese and ham sandwich, fruit, veg, crackers

3pm - snack such as biscuit, fruit, crisps

6pm dinner and yoghurt. This is typically her smallest meal

Optional - cereal for supper

Ricekrispie22 · 25/05/2020 12:45

Breakfast - a slice of toast with chocolate spread + smoothie
Snack - glass of milk + box of raisins
Lunch - half a bagel with cream cheese, cucumber sticks, petit filous
Snack - Choc ice
Tea - 2 sausages, a big spoon of cheesey mash + about 3 florets of broccoli
Pudding - chocolate mousse

Just realised writing this down that there’s a lot of dairy, but not quite 5 portions of fruit/veg! Whoops

Windyatthebeach · 25/05/2020 12:54

Ds 5 usually has 3 breakfasts!!
Shock
Cereal at 7, toast then porridge at 10 with me!!
Lunch 2 x tuna wraps.
Tea past bake with quorn pieces and veg.
Supper is a yogurt /fruit.
Snacks maybe 1 bag of crops of veg sticks or fruit.
He is skinny!!

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TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 · 25/05/2020 13:01

DD just turned 6 is a snacker, she only ever wants small meals but will graze all day so in the morning we put together a collection of fruit, veg, breadsticks etc and leave that where she can get to it.

Breakfast - porridge or cereal
Lunch - crackers, ham/chicken, cherry tomatoes and cucumber
Dinner - tiny amount of whatever we're having

DrKnickerbocker9 · 25/05/2020 13:04

Mine eats loads I think!!
So yesterday for example
Breakfast @ 7 - bowl of weetabix (2) and a banana followed by croissant an hour or so later
Snack @10ish - apple and a Malted milk biscuit
Lunch @ 12 - 2 cheese and bacon mini quiches, cucumber sticks, 3 cherry tomatoes and a packet of Pom bears
Snack @2ish - approx 10 blueberries and an ice lolly
Tea @ 4.30 - roast pork (which he chewed then spat out as it was chewy Confused), 2 roast potatoes, 2 pieces of roast parsnips, spoon of carrots, 2 florets of cauliflower and gravy with 3 watermelon slices for pudding.

He’s so skinny!!!!

Zombiemama · 25/05/2020 13:06

This is all very reassuring in regards to those of you who have mentioned smaller evening meals. Dd just has no interest in eating a good dinner in the evening at all even if snacks have been limited.

Toryssuck I love the idea of a snack plate that she can pick on throughout the day.

She is very fussy with fruit, apples and grapes are all we can get her to eat at the minute although this changes regularly and without warning.

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Howmanysleepsnow · 25/05/2020 13:14

Very skinny 6 year old:
8.00, first breakfast- skyr, granola, berries
8.30, second breakfast- cereal, crumpets or pancakes with berries
9.15, 10, 10.30- snacks. Typically Apple/ satsuma/ tomato/ carrots for 2 of these, biscuits/ crisps/ crackers for the third.
12- lunch- toastie/ tuna sandwich/ plate of cold meat, cheese, olives, peppers, tomatoes, houmus, carrots, crackers/ egg and soldiers/ soup and bread
1- snack- fruit and yoghurt
3.30- snack (unhealthy!)- cereal bar/ chocolate biscuit/ crisps.
5- snack: fruit (fresh or dried)or veg (pepper or carrots are popular), nuts or cheese.
6.30- dinner (pasta and salad- no lettuce though/ stir fry chicken veg and noodles/ salmon, potatoes and green veg/ enchiladas/ chilli/ mussels and crusty bread/lasagne/ whatever)
7.30-8.30 more cereal, fruit, possibly biscuits
8.30- bed and stops eating!
He may also have a small pack of sweets, the odd bit of cheese an extra yoghurt or an ice cream. He never stops! Not the healthiest diet, but it’s limited by his preferences and he’s hungry constantly!

Zombiemama · 25/05/2020 13:21

Howmanysleeps I can only dream of DD eating such a varied diet of fruit and veg that's amazing. She will always try something new but it's usually met with a disgusted facial expression!!

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justanotherneighinparadise · 25/05/2020 13:27

Breakfast - weetabix, little bit of banana, honey and whole milk
Snack - orange, apple and a banana.
Lunch - cheese roll and quaver crisis with cucumber and tomato. Then a yogurt
Snack - chocolate biscuit
Dinner - small amount of whatever we’re having. So last night it was pie, mash, peas and gravy. Pudding was ice cream.

dodolally · 25/05/2020 13:30

Yesterday
Breakfast- porridge with raspberries blueberries and seed mix

Lunch- spaghetti and meatballs / strawberries and ice cream

Dinner/supper- ham and cheese toastie, chopped carrot, cucumber and tomatoes with hummus /fruit and yogurt

Both my dc eat anything and everything I'm lucky they are not picky

jess3817 · 25/05/2020 13:51

Half a large bowl of over night oats with strawberries. 2 slices of toast.
Vegan cheese toastie/ rice cakes salad olives raisins etc/ bagel with pnb and banana - you get the idea.
Large portion of pasta bake with salad/ 2 vegan sausages sweet potato mash loads of veg/ chickpea lentil curry with rice/ stir fry and noodles - etc etc
Dessert - fruit and custard/ jely fruit pots/ fruit/ alpro dessert pots/ yoghurt and fruit/ ice cream with choc sauce.

Doesnt snack really as his portions are huge and he rarely asks for snacks.

Howmanysleepsnow · 25/05/2020 14:59

@Zombiemama he’s good with fruit, veg, carbs and unhealthy stuff, less keen on protein unfortunately!

Dinosauratemydaffodils · 25/05/2020 15:13

Breakfast usually pancakes with some sort of fruit, today was raspberries. Some times cereal
Lunch - variations on snack platter with raw carrots, cucumber, tomato, ham, hard boiled egg/scrambled eggs on toast/beans on toast/soup/savoury muffins with ham and cheese and spring onions. Today was bacon sandwiches.
Evening meal - whatever we eat. Last night was chicken jalfrezi with rice and salad followed by yogurt. Tonight is going to be a pasta bake followed by angel delight.

Depending on what we're doing he might have a small snack, half a bag of crisps or a biscuit or an apple mid afternoon.

I keep oranges, apples, bananas accessible on the table and cherry tomatoes, sliced carrots and cucumber in the fridge for emergency snacking. He's very good though and will try most things. He loves fish and prawns for example. We've been pretty lucky in that regard.

WoollyMammouth · 25/05/2020 15:22

Breakfast is sometimes porridge or scrambled egg or Cheerios with no milk.

Snacks tend to be apples or a banana although currently asking for crisps a lot.

Lunch tends to be a sandwich of some description.

Tea is always a hot dinner. Tonight we are having a BBQ so the sausages will be popular. Always has a yoghurt for after. We’ve also had an ice cream today as it’s hot. Drinks water all day.

user3274826 · 25/05/2020 15:48

6 year old has:
Breakfast: cereal or toast and fruit. Once or twice a week she doesn't really want breakfast and she has a brunch later when DH cooks his breakfast of scrambled eggs/bacon/hashbrowns.

Lunch: 'packed lunch' (she has school dinners and has always found the idea of packed lunch bizarrely exciting and a huge treat. Most days of lockdown I've given her and her brother lunch in a packed lunch box and the novelty hasn't worn off. I often get it made early then it's ready when they want it. She has a cheese, ham, tuna, cream cheese or dairylea sandwich, a salad item carrot/cucumber/pepper/olives/tomatoes/baby spinach. fruit (she likes all fruit so whatever we have) and then a wrapped item like biscuits, crisps, bear yo-yo, cereal bar.

Dinner, she's pretty good. She will turn her nose up at something on her plate maybe once a week but never all of it. She likes all curries, casseroles, Dahl's, Bolognese, chilli, lasagne, pie, roast dinner, jacket potatoes, fish finger type meals.

Snacks don't have a set time, she asks for fruit several times a day and I always say yes unless I'm cooking a meal. I let them have crisps/ice lolly or biscuits probably once or twice a day depending on what else they've eaten.

Now DS 3, is a different matter.

He generally asks for ice lollies and chocolate and biscuits from as soon as he wakes up, but obviously I don't give him that and consistently saying no makes bollocks all difference to his whining. He has cereal (dry of course) or toast and fruit for breakfast. Then asks for more and more dry cereal.

For his packed lunch, he has crackers or a sandwich. He will generally only have peanut butter or just butter on them, but on a good day he will have cheese or tuna. It's a daily battle I hate. The only other protein I can get him to eat at lunch is houmous, or halloumi. The only vegetable he will eat at lunch is peppers, or olives. He will eat a good variety of fruit but god forbid his satsuma has too much pith or he finds a pip in something. Naturally he will eat any biscuit/crisp type thing. He will have yoghurt if I buy them.

Dinner: haha. What dinner? The only dinner he will consistently eat is fish cakes, Quorn nuggets/chicken dippers, occasionally sausages, plain fried tofu, plain pasta, plain noodles, plain rice, potato smileys (not even chips) frozen peas on the side (not cooked) sweetcorn, green beans. We won't usually make him an alternative if there is plain rice or noodles he can have, but often he even refuses that.

Snacks for the 3 year old are driving me insane. He asks about 1000 times a day for snacks. After probably being too lax the first couple of weeks on lockdown we don't let him fill up on snacks now. He still hasn't slowed down the asking and if he IS allowed a snack, it actually increases the asking ten fold. So if we give him a couple of biscuits or an ice lolly because his siblings are having one he will cry for more for at least half an hour.

It's tough because I want to go cold turkey on all snacks and treat food but I have two older kids who are pretty good eaters and that doesn't seem fair on them. Plus withholding doesn't seem to improve his appetite for other things.

Zombiemama · 25/05/2020 20:34

I love the packed lunch idea user3274826 I might bring out a little lunch box and juice bottle tomorrow and see what she thinks of that.

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Morgan12 · 25/05/2020 20:40

Fuck all!

raspberryk · 25/05/2020 20:50

Cereal and or toast and or fruit and or yoghurt. Or cooked breakfast. Apple juice or milk.
Sometimes something snacky - cheese and grapes or Apple, or something cakey they've baked. Maybe a smoothie.
Lunch - pitta with some filling with stuff on the side like cucumber and dips , tuna pasta, jacket potato, soup, or a ploughmans/leftovers, something on toast. Fruit and yoghurt.
Something snacky maybe later, could be anything, popcorn or crisps maybe.
Dinner, any family meal, rejecting the veg generally unless diced and mixed in some sauce. Except nothing with gravy. Huge portions normally. Tomorrow they have chosen fish pie.
If they haven't snacked and we have had early dinner they might have cereal and or banana and milk before bed. Occasionally hot chocolate and marshmallows.

DelurkingAJ · 25/05/2020 21:09

DS2 (4), it all depends...if he’s hungry then he will eat for England. On an average day.

7:30ish half a bagel with Nutella, two cups of full fat milk
10 snack (half an apple, half a banana (other halves to DS1))
12:30 ham wrap, cucumber sticks and carrot sticks, slice of cheese
3:30 couple of biscuits or a piece of cake
6 a two thirds of an adult portion of what we’re eating (today it was fish, rice, carrots and peas (although adults had roasted veg which he would only have eaten courgette and maybe peppers)
7:30 milk

bluechameleon · 25/05/2020 21:28

B: cereal (weetabix or shreddies), something toasted, yoghurt. Sometimes all 3, sometimes only 2 of these.
S: usually a banana, maybe a biscuit.
L: usually either a cheese sandwich with some cucumber and crisps or filled pasta, grated cheese and sweetcorn.
S: fruit, maybe an ice lolly.
D: something like spaghetti bolognese, sausage and mash, chicken and rice or wraps with prawns or chicken, sour cream and cheese. Always 1 or more of cucumber, sweetcorn or carrots.
He will have something like banana and custard, ice cream or something we have baked for pudding.

CostaCosta · 25/05/2020 21:37

I've made a new snack drawer and put fruit where he can easily get it. He loves it and although i thought he might, he isnt greedy with it. He loves the independence!

Myfriendanxiety · 25/05/2020 21:40

My 3 year old would eat all day long if I let him. A typical day is;

Cereal
Toast

Fruit (usually strawberries, grapes and blueberries)
A biscuit or flapjack bar

Ham sandwich or pizza
Crisps
Cucumber
Cheese
Yogurt

Rice cakes
Cheese
Carrot

Dinner- if he got to chose it would be fishfingers, carrots, green beans and chips.
Ice lolly for pudding.

It’s not the healthiest and we are working on ditching more of the sugar, but it’s been small steps as he is a creature of routine and doesn’t cope well with change.

Snoodleberry · 25/05/2020 21:43

8am - weetabix, toast with marmite or jam, slice of melon, small yoghurt, water
10.30am - Apple and water
12.30pm - ham/cheese sandwich or wrap, cucumber and pepper sticks, half a packet of Pom bears or cheese straws, slice of watermelon or some raspberries etc, water
3.30pm - frozen frube
5pm - hot cooked supper eg tuna pasta bake, fish pie, lasagne, fresh pesto pasta, chicken goujons, fish fingers, then slice of homemade cake/jelly/biscuit, water
6.45pm - small glass of milk and a cream cracker with butter

CarlottaValdez · 25/05/2020 21:46

Today was -

B - porridge with fruit, slice of toast with marmite and glass of apple juice

Snack - banana

L - cheese on toast with grated carrot and raisins and yoghurt on the side

Snack - two crackers with cream cheese

D - poached chicken with carrots peas lettuce celery and rice

We’re lucky with DS, he eats really well.

Givenupno · 25/05/2020 21:48

At five mine just ate what we were eating in smaller portions (and then probably finished what was left on our plates)

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