What does your 3/4 year old eat?

[Gemma273]

Just curious as it seems like my 3 yr old is a never ending pit, people have commented from being about 1 year old how much she eats. She is very much in proportion, recently weighed by health visitor who has absolutely no concerns. I'm unsure whether I've noticed it more since starting nursery and maybe they are giving smaller portions than I would normally but I highly doubt that.

Anyway today she has had:

B:Shreddies - child's plastic bowl size but full to the top, pineapple, yogurt and a cup of milk.
Nursery snack:pear
Nursery lunch:soup with bread, tomato pasta with cucumber, potatoes and garlic bread (ate it all 😯)
Nursery snack:plum
Came home from nursery at 3.30pm and said she was starving.. usually says this so had a jammie dodger, half a banana, an apple and porridge fingers - did ask for more but I refused as I thought absolutely no way she could be hungry.
Dinner:chicken fajitas - 1 full wrap, few peppers, few onions, chicken and cheese and a very small amount of savoury rice.
Supper: more porridge fingers, half a banana and a cup of milk.

Is this normal?

Thanks for any comments.

Doesn’t sound too excessive, but maybe she needs more protein in meals & snacks.

Dc4 is 3.5,very active and today had:
Porridge with half a banana and a little golden syrup.
apple wedges, cheese cubes & breadstick snack at preschool.
packed lunch was Tuna sandwich thin, babybel, cucumber sticks, olives, strawberry Greek yoghurt & satsuma.
choc buttons & some Brazil nuts.
Dinner was sausage meatballs & pasta with a creamy sauce, broccoli & green beans. Pear for pudding.
glass of milk before bed.
He eats more than his brother & sisters ever did at this age.

Too much breakfast cereal.
not enough protein apart from beans.
would live off baked beans shreddies and plain pasta, given half the chance.

I thought she was having loads of protein as she had lentils (soup), milk, cheese, oats, yogurt and chicken? Surely doesn't need more than this, not an issue if she does, just curious, wouldn't even say it's a growth spurt as this is all the time she has this amount.

I can't get over nursery giving bread, pasta, potatoes and more bread for lunch (plus lentils). Is that a normal for nursery?? The sugar spikes and crashes are maybe what's making her so hungry. There are hardly any vegetables in her diet. I would probably ditch some of the higher-sugar/carbs snacks for veg.

seems like a lot of breakfast items? Shreddies then porridge fingers twice?

2.5 year old here. Yesterday he had:
breakfast : boiled egg, toast, blueberries
snack: apple
lunch: leek potato soup. Crunchy chickpeas as croutons. Cheese
snack: carrot cake muffin
dinner: lasagna, salad.

I'm unsure if it's just one potato etc but don't want to seem like a neurotic mother asking to see portion sizes but she basically finishes it every time so not sure if the sizes are a bit smaller than I'd usually give. Porridge fingers were only used because it's a quick easy filling healthy item but normally she will have various different foods as she is not the least bit fussy and try to avoid giving packet snacks as much as possible. Vegetables she will happily eat too (often have peas, sweetcorn, brocolli or another veg with dinners) but she would of had veg in the soup and did have peppers and onion yest so I don't think that's too bad. I'll see what today brings food wise, has already Shreddies, grapes and a yogurt this morning, lunch will be at nursery and I'll pick her up at 12.30 and she'll no doubt be ravenous.