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 :/

My skinny 5 year old eats on a typical day
A bowl of cereal eg 2 weetabix and some fruit.
Fruit snack and milk at school
Packed lunch which is a sandwich, something savoury such as crisps or cheese or scotch egg, yoghurt, fruit and a treat such as cake.
Snack after school
Cooked tea - pasta bake, shepherds pie, lasagne etc
Pudding is normally fruit or yogurt but sometimes something more exciting,
Biscuit or toast at bedtime

Lose the chicken dinosaurs too, just give him a chicken fillet instead.

Seriously he must only be having around 1200 cals per day - he needs around 2000.

That doesn't seem like very much. My 7 and 5 year olds pack away way more than that (and they're both tiny).

My DS at age 5 would prob have eaten twice that in a day and is a skinny minny. No idea where he puts it but he's always moving and is always hungry.

No idea of OP's own eating habits but I too think that is worryingly low. Quite disordered.
I have a 9 year old girl, not a 5 year old boy, admittedly, but that wouldn't even touch the surface for her, and she is active and very slim.

I don't think that's much either. If he says he's hungry and he's not overweight, give him more to eat!!

Fruit is fine and dandy but it doesn't fill you up unless it's with yogurt or something.

Today my 3 year old has had :

Breakfast:
A yoghurt
A banana
A bowl of cheerios (dry no milk - strange child)
A glass of milk

Snack :
A freddo frog (not normal but nanny was here)

Lunch:
A cookie
Cheese on 1 slice of toast
1/2 an apple
A bag of Pom bears
Cucumber sticks

Snack :
A cheese string

Then dinner will be (which I know he'll finish):
A homemade pork burger
Beans
Chips
Cucumber
Carrot sticks
Pepper sticks

Meant to add, if he says he's hungry I'd give him something else.

My ds eats so little compared to other children... but he eats way more than that , nutrition wise. Your dc might have problem in the future, carbs are important for little children. Fruits is made of sugar and water, I'm sure?

Sorry OP but he's hungry! My 4 year old (not a huge food fan) has eaten:

Breakfast:
1 slice of wholemeal with peanut butter and jam
Banana
Yoghurt
Probiotic drink

School:
School dinner (think today was chicken roast)
School snacks in AM and PM
A barney bear treat after school

Dinner:
Sausages x 2, mash and carrots
Yoghurt
Bowl of blueberries

And he's not generally a great eater. He needs more.

It doesn't sound like much. DD is 6' very active, slim. She would have

2 or 3 bowls of cereal with full fat milk (porridge, shredded, weetabix, rice crispies, cornflakes)
Fruit snack
School dinner (probably not much)
Flapjack/chic rice cake + fruit + milk snack
Pasta/rice with veggie sauce/curry or some such (one small helping)
Yoghurt or ice cream
More fruit or milk if she's still hungry ( very occasionally)

and she has a much smaller appetite that many of her peers.

Oh, and she does gymnastics, dance and swimming three evening a week.

5 year 7 month old DS here. Tall and slim in age 7 trousers which fall down if not adjustable. He has been quite lazy and only has short bursts of zebidee behaviour.

Today he had:

Cheerios
Toast
Yoghurt
Banana
School Dinner
Half a family bag of Maltesers (little bugger , they were mine!)
Chicken sandwich
Beef Chilli and rice for dinner
Fruit salad
Hot choc before bed

and plenty of drinks.

Your lad definitely needs more food!

I agree with everyone else, that's not really a lot.

I'm not sure of the dimensions of a chicken dinosaur though. Would it equal a fish finger?

I'd add a jacket potato, sweet potato, or pasta and broccoli to his evening meal.

Our school dinners are nice but very small portions. DGD is only 3 and comes out ravenous.

lazy this past winter probably I have been

Shamelessly place marking to read the OP's reaction

I wouldn't class that as a 'hungry' day either, and my DD is 20mo.
Today hasn't been the healthiest of days as we've been out on the go, but so far she has had:
A cup of milk
Slice of toast with egg mayo
Small handful blueberries
2 oat cakes
1/2 slice toast
Playgroup snack bowl of cheese cubes, grapes, breadsticks
1/2 tuna and sweetcorn sandwich
Individual wrapped stick of cheddar
Small handful blueberries (she's obsessed with them)
Bowl of plain popcorn

She still has dinner to go which will be a bowl of pasta with spinach and tomato sauce, and a yoghurt.
On a 'hungry' day she'll eat far more than me and go to bed looking like an alien is about to pop out of her tummy.
I agree with all the other posters about the carbs - that dinner could have done with a jacket potato or wedges, plus perhaps some protein at breakfast.

Um, I think she's gone....

Doesn't sound much to me either. Fairly typical day here,
B) smoothie, weetabix, fruit.
L) cottage pie and peas
D) Pork souvlaki with veg and pitta.
Snacks: apples, 2xbiscuits, slice of cake at group (small!), half a chicken sarnie on way home.
Probably slightly more snacks than normal there but we were out and about a lot.

OP gone to buy rice.

Beans are carbs, they just have protein too.

I'm feeling a little bit sorry for the OP now. I think she might be starting to get the message that it really isn't a lot of food for an active, growing child.

Please come back OP, we are here to support you and offer suggestions of how you could make some small, simple changes to fill your ds up with nutritious food. Sometimes you don't realise what other children eat until it's spelt out for you - like some of us have posted what our own dc eat in a day.

This thread has been helpful for me, ill know how much dd should be eating when she gets older!

Who would serve a meal without a carb?

We really struggle getting 15 month old to eat.

She wont touch breakfast.

She will have two large breadsticks/grapes/yoghurt for a snack.

Pasta with tuna/chicken and veg for lunch

Another similar snack and normally a treat mid afternoon.

Dinner is whatever ee have but favourites are spag meatballs, carbonara, jacket potatoes with with tuna/chilli/beans, fish steak and croquettes with beans and currys with rice.

I think at 15 months and skipping brekkie she eats more than your son. She would demolish a chicken dinosaur which are nutritionally crap.

Dd wont touch bread so we use wraps or crackers to make sandwhich style meals.