To be concerned my daughters diet is very measured

[jecklandhyde]

She's slim but healthy weight at the moment.

She eats junk food. Today she had two mr kipling bakewell tarts and 2 chocolate digestive biscuits.

BUT, sweet food is the only junk food she has. She would NEVER tuck into a big bowl of lasagne, creamy mash, macaroni cheese, pizza for example. She wouldn't eat a take away.

All her main meals are low fat. For example for breakfast she will have overnight oats made with no fat yogurt, oats and fruit.

Lunch is something like a baked potato, beans and tuna

dinner is then wholemeal bread with soup.

She has snacks of wholemeal toast,ham, sometimes a small amount of cheese(2 babybel at most) inbetween meals.

I don't believe she has the recommended level of fat in her diet at all. Yes she has sweet treats but it's not in an enormous amount and wouldn't equal the recommended amount of fat from that.

She seems to eat very low fat meals so she can eat sweet treats and not go over calories but she isa hugely against eating any savoury foods that aren't low in fat.

She won't eat nuts or high fat meats as she says she would rather eat fat from cake!

Does this diet seem the right amount of recommended calories?

Would you be concerned or is this normal?

I know lots of people like to eat healthy but this is a bit restrictive. I don't overeat but I do eat fattening savoury meals at times.

[specialsubject]

I also thought 'where's the veg?'

So much lovely stuff in season now. This diet seems a bit beige.

[Joey7t8]

Oats contain a reasonable proportion of healthy fats. Something like 7g per 100g.

Apart from being a bit light on veg, it's a good healthy diet with a decent mix of food groups. Why would you discourage it and want your daughter to eat more unhealthy stuff?