To ask what you feed your child in a day?

[Tryingtowait]

Posting for traffic really. My son is 3 and a half years old, he was 2 months prem and IUGR, weighed 2lbs at birth so don't know if that plays a part. He is still smaller than other children and super skinny but he is a very active little boy and eats like a horse. Nursery are always shocked how much he eats with them and at home in comparison to his size.

So a typical day would be:

Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Snack at about 10am at nursery fruit rice cakes breadsticks etc
Lunch: main meal cottage pie/curry/ roast and pudding (they say he has seconds and thirds!)
2:30pm biscuit and milk
Tea time: beans on toast/pasta bakes and pudding (again seconds and thirds)

Comes home at 5:30pm claiming to be starving so he then has more snacks mostly fruit if I can but sometimes chocolate! And he goes on about food until he's had his milk at 7/7:30 and goes to bed!

Does your kids eat more/less? Would you feed him more snacks or increase his meals or do you think he has enough? I worry he would eat until he's sick.

My daughters nursery does the same meals as you and the portion sizes for 'tea' are tiny really and they eat it at 4. She's 4 and pretty much always has another tea when she gets home as she's usually hungry, it's nice to sit together anyway (I mostly don't eat as I eat later when the kids are in bed but sit with them and chat)

Gosh I wish my son would eat like yours, always been a struggle to get him to eat, he is 2 and a half stone underweight.

My 9 year old eats less than most of the lists here! He's always full up mind and can have more if he wants.
Today he's had
B. Coco pops porridge (not exactly healthy but only allowed it once or twice per week)

L. Tuna mayo sandwich (2 slices of bread). Crisps. Grapes. Apple. Yogurt tube.

D. Massive portion of spag bol.

That's it. Sometimes he eats twice that amount though and has been known to have 2 or 3 apples for supper.

I'm a childminder and today I fed my children:-
B scrambled egg on best of both toast a banana and glass of milk
Snack rice cake apple raisins
Lunch chicken and veg curry with rice and a fromage frais
After school snacktoasted teacake with strawberries and blueberries. Milk.
Most of them have some dinner with their families when they go home.

All eat well and played outside in the garden for most of today because it was such a nice day.

My 5.5yr old is tall and skinny and doesn't eat a great deal but isn't fussy either so I can't complain.

Today was a great example of a standard day to be fair:
B- Toast with peanut butter with glass of warm milk (other options are porridge or cereal if we're in a rush)
MS- fruit or veg sticks
L- egg mayonnaise wholemeal roll, cheese, peice of fruit and homemade branflake cake.
AS- yogurt and raisins
D- sweet potato mac n cheese, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower.

Wow, that's carb heavy actually!