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 :(

Technically it may be only 5 fruit.......

The point of hidden veg is that it makes sure children are eating healthily.

When they are older they are more reasonable, sensible and it is easier to chat to them about why they should eat fruit and veg. There is no downside to hiding veg for young children.

My children ate well when they were young because I hid vegetables, as well as serving them in their own form, and as teenagers thay eat well because they are educated about why they need to eat vegetables, therefore I have ensured they have eaten well all their lives (so far).

I think OP's food sounds fine, ideally less biscuits but 2 isn't that bad. My DS had a junkfood day today, so compared to it OP's DC are eating super healthy. My poor DS was subjected to pretzels and yoghurt apricots as a snack and then wholewheat pasta with broccoli for dinner. No idea what he had for breakfast or lunch. I'm hoping DH put at least something healthy infront of DS but I suspect it has been biscuit based today.

god , there is nothing worse than virtuous spag bol into which veg has been 'hidden'. DD frequently used to come home from friends houses and regale me with horror at their mothers' ideas of spag bol with peas and sweetcorn etc in!

Surely one point of veg in a bolognaise sauce is that it gets veg into a meal which doesn't naturally have it? It's not necessarily about sneaking veg into a child who refuses it. I put loads of hidden veg in bolognaise (and red lentils). My kids like veg and eat lots of it. Tonight we had noodle soup with carrots, peppers, scallions, green beans, etc. But they don't like lumps in sauces. And neither can stand lettuce, so no side salad. So grated carrot, very finely diced mushroom, etc in bolognaise adds veg.

It's hardly hidden if she's recognised peas and sweetcorn

snice - peas and sweetcorn. Ewwwwww

Exactiy Libraries

Today my kids ate:

Cheerios
Hotdog + juice
Full fat coke
Pizza & chips
More Cheerios

Do I win?

which is why its ridiculous to call these concoctions Spag Bol - its that 1970s favourite 'savoury mince'

A lot of recipes for spag Bol, cottage pie etc have peas as part of the ingredients, I wouldn't call that a hidden vegetable.

Besides peas and sweetcorn was one thing my kids would eat happily (they're quite sweet?) so they would be the serving of vegetables that was recognised in its own right , unlike the courgettes, mushrooms, garlic etc

My kids beg for still frozen peas as a snack when they know I won't cave to a bourbon cos it's too close to tea time. Do I win a prize of some sort.

Or am I killing them in some way letting them eat them still frozen. Discovering you are about to kill your kids is always a possibility on a MN thread I find.

DS2 is able to extract every piece of sweetcorn that is in any spoonful. He hates the stuff.

Leaves a completely clear plate (possiblyou even licked) with a tidy little pile of corn.

Is an art.

Nothing at all wrong with that diet. I would have been delighted if mine had eaten half of that when they were toddlers.

Now we need the magic 5 day chicken to make an appearance on this thread, along with dozens of vegetables padding it out.

frozen peas are my favourite snack!

My dd loves frozen peas and sweetcorn. She hoovers it up.

My fil gets terribly anxious that she might freeze her stomach

I really shouldn't go by MN - as already said what people say and what they do are two different things.

Awww damn it. I thought it was just my kids (and me as a child and now) who ate frozen peas!

Hiding a small portion of veg in spag bol is entirely different to when some people have hidden the fucking mince.
In the rationing years the average mum would have been feeding bread and dripping as a snack/ lunch, not an organic rice cake with puréed wild salmon and asparagus topping ( added omega 3 natch), and yet there weren't many chunks about in the war years. So maybe carbs and saturated fat aren't the problem.

I think it's fine! If it helps here's what DS (3 years old) has had today:

Breakfast - bowl of Cheerios
Snack - biscuits
Lunch - French bread with turkey breast, grapes, offered banana which was turned down.
Dinner - chilli con carne with rice (vegetables included green peppers, carrots, celery - the green peppers and celery were fished out and ignored)
Snack - tortilla chips

I've convinced DS that my current favourite sweeties - chocolate limes - are frozen peas. He clamours for them now! At least he'll eat one type of veg.

I was seriously considering whether I should buy two chickens for a meal the other day.

DS1 is almost a teen, I think if we let him he could eat a whole one.

My beautiful DD(3) ate wonderfully today.

Breakfast: a few bites of chocolate cereal, The kind with a bear on it that doesn't use refined sugar.
A sweet, we were at the GP and it kept her busy for a long time.

Lunch: Half a chocolate sandwich, 1/4 peanut butter sandwich. I made the chocolate spread myself, no refined sugar.

Snack: a small pack of all fruit sweets and some mini oreos. My husband and I were signing up for the gym and shamelessly use food to keep her preoccupied. A pouch of Ella's fruit puree.

Dinner: A bowl of boiled pasta with butter on it.

She's had a cold for about a week now and this is the first day she actually sat down and ate.

The only way I can get vegetables into her is hidden in sauces, she does not like them cooked . She does eat raw carrot sticks though. She isn't a big fruit eater, but does enjoy her Fruit Slushee, which is frozen fruit puree that I blend into fluffy clouds of ice.

I also got her to have strawberry puree by mixing it with water and adding it to a syringe and letting her enjoy some "pretend Calpol".

She will eat anything that is chocolate flavoured, so I often add Cocoa powder to things, she really enjoys it.

My Mum sends all the DGC to the garden to pick sweeties actual peas in the pod which they are allowed "unwrap" and eat. They eat pounds worth but God forbid I suggest picking peas in our garden for dinner apparently they only like the frozen kind. my DC are batty
I could post my wonderful planned menu but tbh it would not be what the DC actually eat, still it looks good on paper, in the shopping basket and chucked in the freezer for DH work lunches.