To think my child's 'healthy' diet really isn't?

[BreadZeppelin]

To think my child's 'healthy' diet really isn't healthy?

My 13-month-old is relatively tall and slim (75th centile height; 55th centile weight) and is always on the go, like the average toddler!
I've tried really hard to give her a varied and healthy diet and she has a mammoth appetite, but the more I think about it the more I worry that her diet is actually not very good.
Here's a standard day's food for her:
Breakfast - 8oz bottle follow-on milk (doesn't like cow's milk!), half a banana and a handful of blueberries.
Lunch - Oven-cooked salmon with sweet potato and courgette; rice. Apricot, 125g plain yoghurt.
Snack - Melon and mango chunks. Another yoghurt.
Dinner - a scrambled egg with grated cheese, sweetcorn and tomato.
And as much water as she wants all day. She probably drinks about half a litre on warmer days.
I think her diet mght be too high in fruit sugar and too low in fat. And probably other bad things that I've not yet noticed! AIBU?

Sounds great to me...the only difference I may make would be to replace the snack of fruit with veg maybe? As less sugar. Par boiled carrot sticks or frozen peas (cooked lol). Mine used to love a bowl of peas as a snack.

Your child doesn't seem to be eating enough. The percentiles should be the same?

No, they don't need to be the same at all! A child on the 99th for height and 9th for weight probably needs investigating...but having a slightly higher centile for height just means they're tall!

For me, ds1 is above the 99th centile for both weight and height and always has been...identical centile curves.

Ds2 was always on the 75th for height and 25th for weight which hv was always happy with as it's been like that since birth. Still more or less the same now at age 7...his natural shape is just tall and skinny.

One thing that stood out to me was no bread... will she not have toast for breakfast or with her tea? I give mine (15 months) salmon, sweet potato and peas/sweetcorn as a complete meal but usually he has carbs at every meal (I guess sweet potato is carby but I think of it as veg). He is over 90th centile for height and weight but relatively similar centiles. The HV always said to me fruit doesn't fill them up as a snack so sometimes I give fruit with a small piece of cheese. She said this helps with blood sugar too. Could you do little things like that to introduce more fat and carbs?

Sounds very healthy but a bit light on carbs. You could do cheese and crackers as snack we get the multigrain ones. Pitta and dips, you could bake savoury muffins with loads of veg and cheese, my lb likes savoury pancakes, omlettes have always a hit here. My lb older but likes cous- cous, you could try stir frys with noodles, pasta bakes with lots of veg in and homeade sauces. Your lo eats a very good variety but i wouldnt be against her having carbs ect looks like she gets healthy fats you could also try some nut butters.

I think the percentiles not being the same is fine if it's consistent for the baby...DS has been just under the 25 percentile for weight for ages but is taller than average. No health professional has ever cared and just asked if dad was tall (he is).

I think your babys diet sounds good but could maybe do with a few more carbs? Maybe some pasta for lunch/dinner occasionally...easy to put lots of nt things in the sauce.
I always worry about DS not having enough protein...he'll eat cheese, eggs, and fish but doesn't much like meat. There's always one thing to worry about!

It looks fine. I think bread would be good as it contains carbs, a little protein, and lots of vits and minerals.

Empty Calories are things like soda that literally provide zero nutrition and only calories. So if you gave your child 2g of white sugar, that is empty calories because it's just sugar, if you gave your child a bowl of fruit that had 2g of carbohydrates 2g of which were sugar, it also has vitamins, fibre, fat (depending on the fruit), and protein. If that makes sense.

Also, I'm amazed your child eats so well!

If it makes you feel better, I can tell you what my DD ate yesterday? She is five.

breakfast: a bite of a doughnut (this was a special treat)
lunch: nothing
snack: ice lolly
dinner: a small bowl of beef stew with noodles.

I think you need to add some sort of carbohydrate based food onto their dinner as you don't give them a carbohydrate based breakfast, so in theory this is over 12-16 hours before they are getting there first real good source of glucose for the day. Don't worry about fruit being too high in sugar, as fructose is broken down and stored in a different manor than standard sucrose. (I studied it in depth at university).

Will they eat avocado? 🥑 Mush some of that up next to their scramble egg as it is a great source of healthy fat if you are concerned about their fat intake. The diet looks great overall though! Well done ⭐️

It really does read like your DD is a grown up trying to shed some lbs only offering fruit for breakfast for such a small child is quite poor. I agree with others on the solution. You need to offer up some carbs. Nut butter on seeded toast with her fruit for breakfast? Soldiers or potato waffles with her tea? Baked potato?

Definitely not enough complex carbs: wholemeal bread, Brown pasta/rice, oats. These are important for energy.

Would porridge with the berries and toast with the egg not maybe be a good idea? Great healthy variety though
I agree with this