What do your kids eat in a day?

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We don't as a rule have 'junk' through the week - saved for weekends. But ds11 & ds9 say they're getting a bit "bored" with the food they eat To give you an example, yesterday they had:

• Bran flakes, milk
• Nuts, raisins, tomatoes, pepper
• Egg mayo & salad wholemeal wrap, banana, cucumber
• Salmon fillet, baby potatoes, veg

I was thinking of incorporating a 'treat' or something, but I'm not sure. They are very thin but don't want to feed them up on junk.

So, what do your kids eat in a day?

And Claire, why not 😊 it is Friday 😊

My eldest is allergic to a few things, so it's easier to just cook everything tbh than use a jar as then we know what's in it without reading every label. ( and I am a bit of a foodie)

This was DS10 food yesterday he eats a lot, some days are healthier than others but I don't mind if he has more treats/junk food occasionally as he eats healthily most days & does a lot of sports.

Breakfast toast peanut butter, banana, milk
Snack Greek yogurt & berries
Lunch boiled eggs & chicken salad
Snack crisps, Apple, orange
Dinner chicken fajitas
Snacks melon
Snack custard
Supper spaghetti hoops.

Just to compare to my other boys, ds14 has eaten today:

• 5 Weetabix, banana, milk
• Nuts, raisins, apple, grapes, flapjack
• Chicken wrap, yogurt, carrot sticks, pepper sticks, hummus
• Slice toast, peanut butter, milk
• 2 fish fillets, loads of baby potatoes, loads of veg
• Bowl of porridge, nuts, apple

He eats loads!!! Gives me a daily diary of what he ate 😂 does lots of sports though

DC2 - some dog food, an old pea she found under the sofa. Dust.
DC1 - fuck all..

3 and 1yo

Porridge with blueberries

Half an Apple

Half a tuna roll/ baby bel/ grapes/half a bag of Pom Bears
Slice of malt loaf

Homemade cookie and milk

Rice crispy chicken
Potato slices
Peas

Bowl of yoghurt and strawberries.

Ha these are mostly so healthy.

Today my dc 8 and 10 have had,
Toast and hot chocolate
School dinner of fish fingers, chips, beans and chocolate cake
An apple
French stick, houmous, cheese, chorizo, doritoes and an oreo ice-cream.

Yesterday they had macdonalds.

Wednesday we were healthy

My 3 yo DD rarely has "treat" food eithier unless it is a party or special occasion

Today she had:
Breakfast-
scrambled eggs with half piece of toast and mashed avocado spread on top
Snack- a fruit smoothie (we have a nutribullet)
Lunch- fish pie with broccoli and green beans and some strawberries for afters.
Snack- cucumber sticks dipped in hummus
Dinner- chicken satay with noodles and stir fry vegetables. Greek yoghurt for afters.

I think I'm the only one with kids who won't eat x

For dd today was a typical day (she eats very similar things/amounts day to day)
Plain yogurt and berries
Oaty snack bar x2
Apple
Crispbreads, fromage frais, water, innocent smoothie tube, cashew nuts
Oaty snack bar , water
Plain popcorn
Chicken, carrots, peas and new potatoes, watermelon and berries
Milk and biscuit at bedtime

DS is 2 and a bit of a fussy bugger. Except at nursery. He eats everything at nursery . He's been there today so I'm confident he's eaten well, plus is now eating some banana and strawberry before bed.

Yesterday he was with me, he ate

Breakfast: crumpet with cream cheese

Snack: a banana and some organix cheese crackers

Lunch: snack box from the soft play consisting of a ham sandwich, yogurt, sausage roll.

Snack: LOADS of strawberries (current favourite) organix gingerbread man

Tea: jacket potato, pork steak (had one bite - he's fussy about meat) salad (only ate the tomato) yoghurt.

Writing that down it doesn't sound too bad, but he generally refuses most meat and veg.

HandWash - ooh, what's rice crispy chicken? Sounds yummy!

BrandNew, that sounds very nice! We had McDonalds on Sunday

Eminy, that sounds like a nice and varied diet 😊

My 14mo's usual food diary:

Breakfast: toast, sometimes with jam/ PB but usually plain. Or a hot cross bun or a pancake. Usually goes mostly untouched (jam or butter gets kicked off though) few squares of cheese. Some Greek yoghurt and fruit. Sometimes eggs. < not all at once and usually just a few bites of each.

Lunch: hot meal at nursery twice a week. When she's at home, I usually do picky bits - such as pitta, hummus, cucumber/ tomato, cheese, roast chicken, grapes etc. Basically anything suitable in the fridge

Dinner: mostly homemade, because I love cooking. Pasta, roasts, currys etc. Although her favourite is mashed potato, baked beans, chicken and cheese all mashed together often I just do scrambled eggs or even chicken dinosaurs or whatever if I cba or she's being clingy. I don't think it's the end of the world.

A few times a week, she'll have some carrot puffs/ sweetcorn rings or whatever overpriced pseudo toddler crisps I pick up with her lunch. She always gets buttons when grandads around, and if we have a treat, we give her a bit too. Like on Father's Day, she had a few profiteroles. She went to McDonald's for the first time the other day and had some nuggets and a fruit bag.She always has a taste of our desserts if we go out to eat, and while we were on holiday she had ice cream every day multiple times. On her birthday, I let her tear into her £45 cake and fill her boots

She's a great eater though, and will often choose veg over less healthy options. She's a perfect weight (75th percentile forever) and I've always been really chilled about it, so maybe that's why she is too. I think if you restrict these things too much, that's when kids get fixations over 'forbidden' foods.

But I get that I'm the parent of a one year old so all this may change, and I might end up eating my own words. ATM I just think there's bigger things to worry about than your kid having a few buttons every now and then

It's just a chicken breast cut into strips, dipped in flour, dipped in egg and then rice crispies.

New favourite in our house!

I'm going to try that rice krispie chicken some time!! Sounds really good!

8yr old-

2 pancakes with syrup (twice a week event, other days is cereal/toast/egg)

Ham sandwich, crisps, strawberries and a kit Kat

Mini cookies

Chicken, jacket potato, pepper, carrot, advocado

Iced doughnut
Nectarine
Large petit filous

He's super skinny but eats like a snail so most of his eating is in the evening when we collect him at 5.30

Your 14 yr olds diet is far more like the one my 11 yrold twins and 14 yr old have. They are all sporty so do something most evenings and then will have supper of toast etc before bed. They also get toast etc at break time at school. Couldn't you put in home made banana bread or cheese scones or flapjacks with their lunch and greek yoghurt with fruit or something after tea?
Branflakes are really high sugar and bran isn't necessary if you have wholemeal bread...if you are worried by that kind of thing i would class them in your occasional category. Save your sugar for nicer stuff like homemade cake.

2 year old today had

Breakfast - 1/2 heated bagel with melted cheese & grapes for breakfast

Lunch - dairy lee sandwich (1/2) , small bit of cheese and onion quiche , few bits of sliced Apple, 2 mini bread sticks, more grapes

Treat - little bit of ice cream today on our day out

Dinner - risotto made with butternut squash, sweet potato, onions , mushrooms & spinach

Raspberrys for his pudding

We do a chilli plate that always goes down well. Bean chilli, wholemeal wraps, salad, cheese, guacamole and salsa.

For my 2 year old Tomorrow he will have

Scrambled egg on seeded toast

Macdonalds for lunch as we heading out for the day and will be near one at lunch time but he has the fish fingers , Apple fries and carton of milk so not too terrible

Dinner is mince & tatties

He always had fruit for pudding , mostly berries , tangerines , apples etc

define, the bran flakes we get are lower sugar and they only have them once a week, if that, so I don't really worry 😊

Passthecake, all my kids are super skinny too! They eat really fast though 😂 the one eating the most is ds14 - its like he never stops!!!!

Today mine has roughly.
Scrambled egg, beans, toast.
Cucumber and houmous, apple
Salad bits, pepper, cheese, beetroot etc with pitta and cold salmon for lunch.
Sri Lankan veggie curry for dinner and fruit salad for pudding.
Large numbers of grapes and rice cakes for snacks.

My DS 12 is a terrible eater, today he's had
Cheerios, 2 slices of toast
Meal from school canteen-I believe chicken breast goujons with chips, almost certain he won't have had any veg.
4 slices of watermelon
Homemade pizza with mushroom, sweetcorn, olives on top
Was offered a yogurt after but declined.
2 digestive biscuits and about a pint of milk.

He is very slim and has done 3 hours of sport today.

DS1 (nearly five): two-egg omelette, two slices of spelt toast, an apple

Rice crust cheese pizza, broccoli, strawberries

Quinoa spaghetti, chicken, pinto beans, spinach, olive oil

Snack before bed: a few crackers or a few cubes of cheese

DS2 (2.5): Same, except raisins instead of strawberries, slightly smaller portions, and a glass of whole milk or almond milk at bedtime.

Both boys are 80th centile for height, and between 25th (youngest) and 50th (eldest) for weight.

To add, my eldest hates dessert, while my youngest would gladly mainline fruit shoots and Snickers. I don't buy crisps and chocolate, as I don't eat them much, but I have no issue with my sons eating whatever at parties etc. and we always eat out for burger and chips Saturday for lunch (organic place, but still 😉).