To generalise broadly, I think we have lost our senses with regard to food.
It is an emotive subject and no one likes to be accused of poor parenting, but honestly, so many parents are deluded about how much their child needs to eat.
I work in education and children's menus have been prepared by a dietitian. Morning and afternoon teas are fresh vegetables and fruit, homemade scones, muffins or banana bread.
Lunches are rice and dahl, chop suey, tuna or vegetable pasta, sandwices with grated carrot and hummus, egg salad, tuna or baked beans.
It goes out on platters and the children serve themselves. Milk is provided to children who attend long hours, others have water.
There is never pudding. Never.
It is good food prepared from fresh ingredients delivered daily.
But oh the complaints we receive. Lots and lots of parents are very anxious about food and feel their child needs to eat constantly and in large quantities.
But the children themselves do so well. They sit at the table, take turns to dish for themelves, pass to next person, and set about eating. They pour their own water and remind each other to drink up.
There are always one or two who need encouraging to eat, and always one or two who would happily polish off the entire lot, but in the main the children self-regulate very nicely.