Wtf do kids eat this much?

[Esmeismyhero]

Ds is 5 and 3 months (I don't know if that is relevant)

He goes to school, he does karate one day a week and the weekend he is usually running around out etc. After school he watches his iPad, does homework, runs around the house, plays toys etc.

He is very slim but very tall for his age. Lately he has been eating me out of house and home.

Today for example he ate

A bowl of cherrios
An apple
A school dinner
1/2 punnet of grapes
5 strawberries
2 x chicken dinosaurs
Beans

He is apparently still hungry????

Hasn't he had enough? Or Aibu?

He will have milk before bed and I'll ask dh to give him a carrot if he is still hungry while I'm at work tonight. He likes eating whole carrots on his own, I keep finding the carrot stalks hidden :/

Dd today has had
1 cup of tea with four sugars
1 cup of hot chocolate with two sugars
Pasta with tuna, olives, cucumber and mayo and a bowl of sweet potato fries, bought from a supermarket and cooked in the deep fat fryer.

She's 14.

If you listened to the crap peddled on MN food threads not a single child is fed properly, yet we mainly seem to manage to keep them alive and well.

It's not very much as everyone has said. It's not surprising that he's still hungry.

What is surprising is your attitude towards his needs. You really need to stop wtf'ing a child who is hungry enough to hide evidence of eating carrots.

I'm probably over sensitive as I grew up with a mother who did withhold food, (that hasn't left me with a fucked up attitude towards food at all) but I'd watch that attitude. It doesn't seem particularly helpful or healthy.

OK so I feel really bad that OP hasn't come back.

We have kinda flamed her

COME BACK OP, we want to help!!!!

My 5 year old tends to eat little in the morning but makes up for it later in the day, for instance today was:

Toast
10 big grapes
Babybel
Big handful of pretzel sticks
More grapes (about 10)
Half a bowl of mac n cheese with ham in
The rest of the bowlful later on
Satsuma
Sausage and chips - bowlful

And I am willing to bet she wakes in the night and makes herself a piece of toast as she gets hungry in the night too. And yeah, not a healthy day today but I was in too much pain to cook a proper dinner.

They all have different appetites, DS eats like a horse but he has a friend who eats like a sparrow. If mine ask for more food after dinner I let them have something like a banana, crackers & cheese, muesli etc DS has hollow legs and is never full (wiry, sporty, never sits still).

I don't think that's much you deffo need to give him more for his evening meal.

Dear me this thread has some many people jumping on the bandwagon we'll need to add an extra carriage.

OP - don't sweat it. You're not starving or neglecting your son. If he says he's hungry he probably is so give him access to something he can nibble on and self regulate and see how you go plus, yes add a carb to the main meal if he'll eat one - because I do know there are kids who won't eat pasta, mash, rice, noodles etc.

Dd 13 has had today 1 slice of toast,1 packet of choc buttons and 2 chicken enchiladas

I'm more gobsmacked someone lets a five year old use a toaster on their own in the middle of the night than anything else on this thread! You're brave Natsku!

My 18 month eats more than that and she's not even a big eater.
That's quite a worrying list of food.
Is there a reason why you give him that? Do you have issues with food?

My one year old ate more than that today

He had puffed wheats and half a banana
Pineapple and melon as a snack
A chicken and ricotta wrap and half a crumpet at lunch followed by yoghurta bread stick and half a cheese bagel for afternoon snack
Med veg tart and fruit at dinner

I would include carbs with his evening meal

I'm always hungry too, granted I'm not 5, but some of your children eat more than me.

Also, is tea at 10pm acceptable if I call it supper?

Beans have both protein and carbohydrate in them. It's just a case of eating plenty of them with one's dinosaurs. Herbivore dinosaur shapes (triceratops, brachiosaurus etc) have more carbohydrate than carnivore dinosaur shapes (tyrannosaurus Rex et al), which are higher in protein.
Aren't we lucky that we, in the main, go to bed well nourished and enjoy the luxury of picking holes in other's diets.

I'm using this for ideas

I realises this has gone everywhere after 10 pages, but just going to respond to the op if she returns.

When my ds5 had school dinners he was coming home starving, I realised he wasn't eating much of them, so I do packed lunches and can see he eats it all.

He also struggled at first with the school snack of carrot, apple etc, as he was used to something more substantial mid morning like a banana or tea cake.

When I once did him an early tea of fish fingers, bread and butter and and baked beans for ease because we had to go out somewhere, he called it 'a hot snack' and we still had to have 'dinner' when we got back. So not unusual, they are growing and active.

He has had today - toast and banana for breakfast, pear mid morning at school, sandwich, yoghurt, plum, handful of dried fruit and a biscuit for lunch, some rice cakes, small slice fruitcake, apple and orange after school, chicken and mushroom pie with mash and veg for dinner, another small fruitcake. That's typical at the moment and you can see his ribs! Sometimes he will have bread and butter before bed too.

And to add, my kids are welcome to help themselves from the fruit bowl or veg compartment any time they like, except for when a meal is imminent.

I'm more gobsmacked someone lets a five year old use a toaster on their own in the middle of the night than anything else on this thread! You're brave Natsku

I've got a back problem at the moment and just couldn't manage to get out of bed last night when she asked for toast so told her to make it herself and she managed great! I've watched her make it herself during the day so knew she knew how to do it (got plastic toast tongs so she can't burn her fingers or get tempted to stick a fork in there). I did make her go back and double check the fridge and freezer doors were shut though.

Might be worth remembering the OP mentioned working tonight, so chances are she won't be back until tomorrow.

I am rather how much this OP has clearly hit a nerve with us all…

Also, we do not know what the 'school lunch' actually entailed.

It could have been a three course, jam sponge pudding and custard type affair (clutches desperately at fragile straws)

Today my fussy 5 year old has eaten bowl of Cheerios
slice of toast n butter with water. School snack of little bag of plain biscuits
School lunch of cheese panini
after school snack of some apple n grapes
Dinner of spag Bol n piece garlic bread
Yoghurt
Small bowl dry cereal

Prob not a lot but doesn't want anymore

That doesn't seem very much? My 18 month old has had today,

1 x weetabix and full fat milk
Heinz fruit pouch

A small Marmite cheese
tuna sandwich
Laughing cow cheese breadstick dipper thing
Apple & strawberries

Digestive & warm milk

Cheesy mash & gravy
Chicken breast
Peas, sweetcorn and carrots
Small kinder chocolate bar

4oz of milk before bed

My 5 and 6 year old eat:
Bowl of cereal (weetabix)/greek yoghurt, 2 slices of toast
School dinner plus pudding
Houmous sandwiches, cucumber, tomato, fruit, yoghurt, hot cross bun

And usually something else before bed time.