To ask if you think 6 fish fingers is too many for a 3 year old boy to have for dinner?

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along with half a 400g run of baked beans and chips.

Need to settle an arguement.

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OMG the only thing that's going to get children obese is this bloody obsession with portion control!!!

OP - maybe just ask MIL to put less on the plate to start with and add if child is hungry that's the best way to do it! NOT to restrict to some stupid number!

That rather depends on how you make them, does it not? Because 'some potatoes put in the oven at home' is what I mean when I say 'chips'. And I don't suppose I'm particularly unusual in that.

Besides, commercial oven chips don't tend to involve hydrogenated oil (source of your evil trans fat). And nor do McDonald's fries, as it goes.

Oh the GPs "food is love" thing. I asked DM if my kids could just have ice cream once a day when they stayed with her during the summer hols. Apparently that was cruel. ..they should be allowed it with lunch AND dinner. Maybe breakfast too!

I expect your cupboard is full of coconut-based products, isn't it, scaredfuture?

I asked my 10 year old DGD how many fish fingers she would happily eat. She said 3 or 4. Baked beans - a couple of tablespoons full and about a dozen chips. So yes,6 fish fingers,plus everything else,does sound rather a lot for a 3 year old.

My DS ate that much at that age, but not every day, but on occasions he would just eat & eat. Other days he would eat very little, though ff were and still are a favourite, so they might tempt him regardless of mood. He's 14 and adult size now and very active, he would want 3 or 4.

Depends on the kid, however, my 3 yr olds always had 2 on their plates, along with two tablespoons of beans (roughly, I didn't measure em lol) and a few chips. I think six is a bit much as its what my hubby would have for his dinner! lol. (Unless they're picky as frig like my kids and only eat the fish fingers and ignore everything else! x My 6 yr old only manages one fish finger, about 2 chips and seven beans, I wish I was joking lol.

Depends on the child and whether they seem healthy - there are days my ds who is nearly 4 would eat that, and days when he has nothing - and the higry periods def correlate with when he grows. I routinely give mine 4 fish fingers and half of a half size tin of bins and this will be an hour or two after a banana and some biscuits straight after school and nursery. Sometimes for breakfast ds has three slices of toast and a weetabix - other times he nibbles at a piece of bread and says not hungry. Providing they are not hugely overweight then I think they pretty much self regulate.

It does seem excessive! I would only have 2, and my better half 3 - dread to think what the rest of this child's diet is like.

Would any adult really be satisfied with 2 fish fingers for a main meal? Really????

I know Bertrand. It's such nonsense. Threads like this are incredible.

Depends on the make of fish finger - some of them have hardly any substance at all so even five or six would not equate to a piece of cod - just get cod instead.

I do large portions and always have, but at 3 years old my children would have had 3 maximum (usually 2), quarter tin of beans if that and a handful of chips - now my 16 year old is 6'1" and 15 stone and I'd only give him 3 or 4 with half a tin of beans, a few chips and some bread and butter

Better 6 fish fingers, beans and no chips than 3 fish fingers and chips! There are bread crumbs on the fishfingers which provide the carbohydrate. Beans and fish are both protein rich foods - maybe better to fill up with brocoli or anything green??

But chips are nice!

Mind you, I was a bit surprised that so many people do beans with fish fingers- is it a "thing"? I would do fish fingers chips and peas. Beans are for sausages or jacket potatoes or toast in this house.

Depends my daughter at that age would eat practically a whole chicken one day and not so much the next.

I have an indelible image of a couple sitting very upright at a Formica topped table with Eternal Beau flatware in an immaculate kitchen delicately eating two fish fingers......

I'm eating fish fingers right now. I'm eating more than two!

"OMG the only thing that's going to get children obese is this bloody obsession with portion control!!!

OP - maybe just ask MIL to put less on the plate to start with and add if child is hungry that's the best way to do it! NOT to restrict to some stupid number!"

^^ this is pretty much word for word what my SIL says - she is a dietician.

Shes not a mumsnetter, but I quite often show her these extreme food threads- she is often astounded at the amount of bull that is put forward as if it's fact!

Oh she also says potatoes are not poison! (She does say that they should be part of your starch/carb and not your veg though!)

Excellent .... This is still going on!
Did I read that someone had a 6ft1 16 year old who is 15 stone (rugby player?) My 6ft 4 16 year old is under 12 stone and would love to put on weight.... How? He has never eaten 6 fish fingers though, maybe that's the problem.
Asked OH how many he could eat and he did say that he was probably the wrong person to ask but the whole packet... I don't think the size of the packet was relevant.
Younger 2 kids get 2 at school which, it would transpire, is why the 9 year old eats six weetabix in the morning (plus toast) because she gets hungry. Incidentally, she is 4foot 11 and 5 and a half stone. Not fat!
I used to read the Argos catalogue when I was little and dream of having the entire eternal beau set including the cutlery. Life is full of disappointments, I never bought it and I don't think I have ever bought a fish finger.

I am a mum of 4 healthy 'normal' teenagers and a GP - I would usually say everything in moderation, but chips / waffles / crisps ......you may as well eat the packet / what is the point!! Fish fingers which are baked or dry fried are pretty sensible nutrition (whatever make they are), so if a 3 year old ate all 6 I would say 'great' - before the usually beans with sugar and salt - and 'tasty' fried nutritional crap!

I once purchased vegetarian fish fingers ( do not do this) intending to eat the lot (8!!!!!!!!!!!!) they were so grim tasting I ate a tub of ice cream instead.

My DD has dropped off the weight charts not even a 1%
If I'm lucky, on a really great day she will eat a whole fish finger... That's all day , as she has complex medical needs I have to put fat in her bottles, Achual liquid fat!!! Can you imagine!
Come on guys.... Feed your kids what you can, when you can, enjoy it when they chow down, and feel good if they are gnashing on stuff that won't kill them later in life.... Unclench the pearls 🍕🍭🍰🍫🍼🍹🎃

2 or 3 is normal. 6 is wayyyy too much! Mcdonalds puts 3 in a happy meal & restaurants usually put 3 on the plate so it must be a wide concept of fish finger portioning lol x

Should add that my children also eat the usual tasty crap regularly - but it should not be confused with nutrition! If a child is on a growth spurt, keep a fridge full of top quality protein and carb - which fish fingers are a pretty good 'go to' food. Add some ketchup and that will include one of your 5 a day!