To ask what your 3 year old ate today?

[Bibs2014]

Can you please list what your 3 year old ate today?

Breakfast: one 200 ml cup of whole milk, a handful of shreddies, a bite of banana.

Snack: half of a large double chocolate chip cookie (a treat as we were out)

Mine is 4, but:

Breakfast:
Rice Krispies without milk and a mini soreen bread

Lunch:
3 chipolata sausages, large handful green beans, large handful cauliflower
1/3 fruit pastille ice lolly (didn't want the rest)

Dinner:
4 small slices baguette with butter
Parma ham
Lots of Raw carrots and cucumber
Chicken satay
Couple of chunks cheddar cheese
Bowl of strawberries
1 square chocolate

Snacks:
2 bananas
Few smarties
1 mini red velvet cup cake and a tiny side of lemon cake at a friend's house
Few crisps
Gingerbread man thing
Piece of fruit, can't remember what it was now!

Plain water to drink and 1 small glass of milk.

Much less healthy than usual, they are having more treats as it's the holidays but today was too many really.

Oops posted by mistake

... and a small glass of OJ

Lunch: wholemeal pasta with vegetable sauce, followed by a pear and a cup of milk

Afternoon: little bit of orange squash, and a handful of cherry tomatoes from the garden.

Dinner: chicken pasta, followed by strawberries and yoghurt, followed by a glass of milk before bed.

1 x weetabix
2 x fruit yoghurt
Satsuma
2 x bananas
Half a ham sandwich (wholewheat bread & butter)
Fruit squish purée
Small Yoghurt drink
Spaghetti shapes on toast
2 x biscuits
Fishcake in a wholewhear roll
1 x courgette
Water to drink...

They don't sell fruit shoots in the country I live but she did have a few when we were on holiday in the uk. She sometimes has apple juice but lots of water too...

Porridge with puréed fruit and large cup of milk

Nursery snack: cheese, crackers, grapes

Marmite sandwich, 1/2 pack hula hoops, pepper slices, blueberries, Goodies bar

Snack: yogurt covered raisins, 1 Bear Winder

Wholemeal spaghetti with chicken, cherry tomatoes, peppers and some BBQ sauce, yogurt

Breakfast: 1 slice of buttered toast
Cup of milk
Snack: cheese
Squash
Dinner: (6 or so?) sweet potato fries and a fried egg
Banana smoothie/milkshake made with 1/2 a banana and 1 cup whole milk
Water
Snack:snack bag popcorn
Fresh orange juice
Tea: spaghetti bolognese
Choc ice
Squash
Supper: fruit salad (1/2 a pear 1/2 an Apple 1/2 a banana)
Cup of milk
1 malted milk biscuit

DD (2 and a bit) was at Nursery today, she had:

2 x bowls of shreddies with whole milk
Hummus and cucumber
Lentil curry with pitta
Melon
Cup of whole milk
Tuna wraps with tomato and peppers
Fruit salad

At home:
Small bowl of fresh tomato soup and flat bread
Chocolate button (potty training bribe)
Large glass of semi skimmed milk

She has a fruit shoot about once a week, normally when we are out at the weekends.

2yrs 7 months
Amidst lots of talking, pushing food around and pulling it to bits:
Porridge and half a small banana
Pitta sticks, hummus carrot sticks, cucumber sticks and a half a hard boiled egg
A spoon of fromage frais and 2 slices of apple
An ice cream when we went for a walk
Spoonful of chicken fahitas, a bit of a wrap, sliced tomato, spoon of grated cheese and a slice of avocado
Two spoons of stewed plums and yoghurt mixed together
Drank water and milk

Banana, blueberry wheat with milk, water slice of toast with jam
Snack half a bag mini cheddar
Lunch ham and Philly brown bread sandwich and a satsuma
Snack choc ice
Tea: picked at home made shepherds pie so got his pudding withheld but would usually have Aldi Greek yoghurt and berries.
Normally half a cup of milk before bath.

Crunchy nut clusters with milk
Raspberry petit filous
Cheeseburger happy meal with fries and purple fruit shoot
Ice cream cone with flake
Red velvet cupcake
Spaghetti and meatballs
A slice of cheese pizza
Lots of milk

Obviously, this is a far from typical day! We have been out shopping all day long for an upcoming engagement party and there has been a LOT of food related bribery.

Oops, I forgot to say that she only ate half of the fries, ice cream and spaghetti and meatballs! So she hasn't eaten much volume wise today but what she has eaten has been calorific junk!

Porridge made with milk, and cup of milk
Banana
Hummous sandwich, sesame breadsticks and more hummous (lemon and coriander)
Blueberries and several licks of sugary fingers and mixing spoons whilst making muffins
Homemade lamb kebabs (one bite) with rice (2 forkfuls) and garlic naan (all of it)
blueberry and chocolate chip muffin we'd made earlier
Very diluted squash and milk to drink throughout day and milk before bed.

Just in case anyone else is reading the above lists and feeling a bit inadequate, today my 3yo ate;

Breakfast:
Half a bowl of chocolate Shreddies, without milk.

2 Haribo.

Cup of my tropical smoothie that he liberated from the fridge.

Lunch:
Cocktail sausages x?, carrot, cucumber, & hummous (the first nutritious item today, hooray!), one grape.

Dinner:
Sausages x3, broccoli, ketchup.
Choc ice.

Carrot sticks.

Warm milk.

He currently has the appetite of a consumptive gnat, and if it's not sugar or meat he's not really interested. It'll change, I try not to make a big deal out of bad weeks.

Vienetta

'Liberated'.

Half slice of toast with cream cheese
Small bunch grapes
More grapes
Breadsticks
Pita bread and humous (but left a lot)
Pom bears
Cucumber slices
Cherry tomatoes
Orange
Piece of leftover birthday cake
Pasta with tomato and aubergine sauce
Slice of garlic bread
Slice of melon
Water and milk to drink

Getting pickier as he gets older!

I cant believe how little my ds eats. He's 2 stone 8lb and looks solid and healthy but today he had

Cup of milk
Pom bears
Plain noodles
Cup of milk

Thats it! Lots of healthy foods available and offered but thats all he ate and that's normal for him.

Oatibix

Pancake with butter and a orange

Cheese & ham sandwich , small yogurt, grapes, baby crisps,

Apple

Spag bol followed by grapes & 1/2 Apple

A Weetabix, kinder egg and three mouthfuls of lasagne. 👍🏼 🤦🏻‍♀️😔

Breakfast at home: glass of milk, bowl of weatabix, a yoghurt, a donut peach and a handful of blueberries. Half a bagel with cream cheese.

Breakfast at nursery: Cheerios

Lunch at nursery: Jerk chicken, rice and peas followed by orange slices, water

Tea at nursery: cheese sandwiches, yoghurt

They normally have breadsticks or crackers as a snack at nursery and water throughout the day

Supper at home: slice of wholgrain toast, butter, half an avocado. And - randomly - two roast potatoes, water

More milk before bed

She's one of those hollow-legged children...

My DS is normally a good eater and will eat pretty much everything, but he goes through phases. Including when he essentially turns into a raw vegan apart from the milk he drinks . Only form of protein is peanut butter and even that is hit and miss.

Today DS had:

A scrambled egg and half a good quality sausage
A bowl of strawberries
Pasta with bolognese sauce - the sauce had 5 lots of blended veg in it!
Dinner was a chicken burger from Nando's and then an ice cream
Snacked on some leftover garlic bread and a small bag of mini fingers with milk.

That's not so bad? Oh and a smoothie and a fruit shoot - I didn't put the Tesco shop away quick enough!

Banana
Oaty bar
A bit of baked beans on toast
Some crisps
Strawberries and grapes
Pasta with tuna and peas
Orange
Mini milk

Alpen and milk
Strawberries
Apple
Toast 'Pizza' - Toast with tomato purée spread and grated cheese on top
Sliced cucumber
A bit of play doh
slice of pepperoni pizza
Half a banana

And an ice cream, a plum and some crisps