I've a 5 year old growing lad, big for his age (very tall and gangly).
He never, and I mean never stops going on about food.
I'm sure it's not just me because other people have noticed and commented that he's got a 'sweet tooth', a 'good appetite'. People have even joked blimey don't you feed him.
He associates everywhere we go with food. Cinema, shopping centre, he knows where the man is who gives pretzel samples, supermarket he always wants the free samples not to mention drooling over and grabbing everything we see, visiting people.
I think I feed him well, mostly healthy, plenty of food, junk too and never demonise junk food, here we gave a takeaway most weekends.
Example, today he's had shredded wheat for breakfast, he has toast and fruit for morning snack at school, lunch was 2 small wholemeal ham rolls, a piece of cheese, yoghurt, cucumber and carrot and a pear. He came home and took another yoghurt, a milkshake, and a scotch egg (he doesn't usually have so much junk after school), then he had leftover lasagne and a bowl of salad for tea followed by a plum. Yet he then had a tantrum over some leftover galaxy bar, and has just been in the bin, yes the bin and took out an empty popcorn bag.
The first thing he says when he opens his eyes, comes out of school, before he goes to bed is can he have a snack, he talks me in circles about how he's only had 1 snack, or half of this, so he can have a piece of that.
We can come out of a restaurant and he will immediately ask what's for tea. I say that was tea, but he wants tea at home too. I've caught him sneaking chocolate into his lunchbox even though he knows Fridays he can have a chocolate at school.
I promise he gets enough food, more than enough, and he's not fat in the slightest, but I think that's more because I don't allow him to go overboard. But it feels like a constant battle.
I'm at the end of my tether with this.
If people say it's normal though I will shut up and go away.