To have thought my dcs diet was ok until I joined mumsnet?

[Meandmygirls2009]

I have always thought my dc ate ok, but since joining mumsnet and reading lots of posts I am worried that I do not feed my dc a healthy diet! Typical day consists of:
Breakfast: bagel and orange juice
Snack: grapes
Lunch: cheese sandwich, mini cheddars, raisons
Snack: 2 chocolate digestives
Dinner: home made spag Bol, strawberries

Does this sound ok? I am worried the daily mini cheddars and digestives are too much after reading what other children eat :(

OP- The thing with the fruit and veg intake on this day is it's mostly fruit. Trying to up the veg is always a good thing (less sugar, more fibre,etc). But what you have isn't bad. It really isn't.

I've posted on another thread today about how MN is getting more and more sanctimonious

ego we have to. I love the minion toys more than ds!

We have a minion too - it sits on top of the shoe rack for some reason and chortles every time someone takes shoes out. Scares the crap out of DH every time

Sounds like the sort of perfectly "normal" food I feed mine.

I do like to compare my DCs diet..... but to those I see buying donuts and Pot Noodles in the Co-op everyday rather than the quinoa brigade.

Makes me sleep better at night.

It's fine OP.

I'd vary the fruit snack with other fruit, and I'd sneak some extra veg into the spag Bol like finely chopped courgettes of mushrooms etc.

I'm definitely moving one of the minions to the shoe box now!

Looks ok to me - my dd ate beetroot with her fishcakes today - can I get points for that? Otoh she also had iced biscuits that she made - gasp! why are you worried?

Mine had

Do it mrsgrinch. DH lifts the thing, stares at it in fury then puts it back. Until tomorrow

My dd tonight seemed keen to tell me what other kids had for lunch today for some reason. One had "broccoli and potatoes and he eated it aaaaaaalllllll up." Another had "chocolate heart biscuits which were chocolate and had hearts! And some cheese sticks!!!!! "

She made it clear she preferred the heart shaped lunch!

This is yesterday for DS (aged 5);

B- cheerios without milk 1/2 pear
L- fish fingers and chips from McDonalds
S- ice cream
D - chips with ketchup
S- ice cream

Today

B- toast with cream cheese and jam
S-strawberries
L-cheese sandwich, 1/2 pear, cucumber sticks
S-carrots and hummus
D-pasta with sweet corn and peppers and boiled egg

Sometimes I can only get crap down him. Other times it is better. Hopefully it all evens out in the end.

MN is a quirky little world of paradoxes:

Very purist regarding children's diets but lots of MNers drink a hell of a lot and think it's fine.

Toilet brushes are apparently disgusting but in a recent thread loads and loads of posters happily admitting to not washing their hands after changing nappies

Feed your children as much fruit and veg as you can, get protein, carbs and some fat into them in a nice variety of forms, make sure they get lots of exercise and brush their teeth properly and all will be well.

Oh I forgot there are mushrooms, garlic and onions in the spag Bol too. I can't really get them to eat veg between meals, they hate cherry tomatoes, celery, carrot sticks. They will eat cucumber but not much.

disappointedOne
That's not a scientific study on wheat
I could write an article saying malteasers make you sexy
Or wine makes you really witty!

Op my baby ate would eat nothing but cheese for weeks and is totally fine!

Feed your children as much fruit and veg as you can, get protein, carbs and some fat into them in a nice variety of forms, make sure they get lots of exercise and brush their teeth properly and all will be well.

This. No counting strawberries as if they are crack.

Look at the week as a whole. My dd eats like us at the weekend - we love eating out and it is a massive treat. She gets what she asks for - some times it is super healthy and sometimes not. I might be proven to be wrong but I think this encourages a healthy attitude to food

OP look at you with all those hidden vegetables!

You have nothing to worry about.

Now if I could please have a badge for surviving the vicious sectarian wars between the puree-fans and the BLW's

They don't eat a lot of dairy as too much gives them a tummy upset. I buy the calcium enriched orange juice and bread and just hope that's enough

Vatersay I think I love you. That's spot on.

salty!

I remember being asked if I was pureeing or blwing. I responding by asking did I need to nail my colours to a mast?

It was the right answer - I had a refluxy, dairy intolerant, food reluctant wee tiny.

We pass on so much shit to our kids by going too far in either direction

The cat is looking at me like she can read my evil mind and has figured our my minion plot.

op today my ds (7 years old) has eaten:

breakfast: boiled egg and soldiers, some cur up apple and a grape. just one grape.
Snack: carrot sticks and a cookie in the car.

Lunch: fishcakes and chips at from the fish and chip shop, he was on a day out in Portsmouth with his grandma. So add on a huge Ice cream a million pounds worth of toys and probably a bag full of sweets

Dinner: Roast chicken, potatoes, carrots, peas, broccoli and sweet coast My mum likes sweetcorn.

He also had some strawberries for pudding.

Similar to dds, except she's a bread freak so would ask for toast over the biscuits and have garlic bread with the spag bol. And add her own body weight in fruit given the chance. depending on meal she'll have a few veg and salad with it. I eat the same, but minus the fruit. We're both the picture of health.
Also despite quite an adult palate when it comes to meals, I'll hold my hands up and say if dd was offered porridge, rice cakes, or raw veg to dip in hummus, or nasty organic waitrose regurgitated snacks, kale etc she'd go hungry long before she'd touch them. She'd eat the raw veg for dipping and then ask where the proper food was because she's still hungry. As would I.

Yes that's just a typical day, another day might be the following, although still along the same kind of eating habits.
Breakfast: crumpet and apple juice
Snack: crisps
Lunch: ham sandwich, cucumber, pepper, hummus
Snack: cereal bar
Dinner: fishfingers, mash and baked beans, yogurt tube

No need to eat between meals at all really.

MN is funny, at various times I am mocked for my overly healthy diet and at time accused of an unhealthy one.

Both DH and I used to be fat, really really fat. And I was pre-diabetic. So we eat a his fat & protein diet with very little refined carbohydrates. Now we aren't fat anymore.

The kids used to eat what was generally agreed to be a 'healthy' diet, except guess what? They started to get fat. So got rid of all 'day to day' refined carbs. Now both have lost their podge as they grow.

If we are at something, a special dinner out or a party we don't say they can't have soda or dessert but they mostly choose not to bother anymore.

The sugar in an average healthy diet was making us fat and sick.