How many meals a day do your kids eat

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My kids are very active, sporting activities each day/some days 2 activities and mostly they are high intensity activities .

Family have my children abroad, its a very hot country, they are still doing lots of activities, pool most days, water parks, jeep safari's, bike rides, boat trips with water activities etc...

Now DC have always had...

Breakfast - cereal of either weetabix, or shreddies, with some sort of fruit (banana, mixed berries etc... (weekends theybhave brioche bread and spread, plus scrambled egg. (Dc2 has allergies so is ingredients may differ)

Snack will be fruit, hummus with veg sticks, boiled eggs on pitta bread, yogurt, homemade oatcakes etc..

lunch with be for ds1 it's always tuna and sweet corn sandwich, and a bag of crisps. Ds2 is some sort of rice flake dish with whatever veg we have in and sometimes meat/fish

Dinner can be anywhere from fajitas, fish pie, chickpea burgers, lentil dish, fish dish etc...

Snack 9/10 hot chocolate and some form of homemade baked food (last week it was banana cake)

Supper is always toast.

The portions aren't massive, they are both fit, healthy and exceptionally active, and not over weight, they both have drinks throughout the day.

On Saturdays they have treat day, and they can get whatever treat they want.

Now family members have told us our children are greedy... because they have drank a carton of 1L juice and it was nearly gone in the evening and apparently they eat too much...

Ds1 (under 12) has facetimed crying to say they have been shouted at for drinking too miuch and that he's for a headache... I should add ds1 has a motablism disorder, so does need substance more regularly.

Do they over eat?

some children need more food then others because they have been over fed from the start and their stomachs are used to bigger portions!
Yes they need more when going through a growth spurt.

Maybe look up the healthy start site and it gives you an idea of healthy portion sizes.

because they have been over fed from the start and their stomachs are used to bigger portions!

I disagree, ds1 has always been a routine baby, needs substance more often, ds2 has always been a eater where he goes through phrases, my children are very active, if you give them food to that of a non active child, there health would be in trouble, and that's not including there medical conditions.

that sounds a lot to me, and I agree that sometimes eating a lot/very regularly sets up bad habits for later in life when often people are a lot less active.

However, as the mother of a child who would happily never eat I am looking at it from the other extreme of the spectrum (neither of them necessarily very good end!)

My kids, nine and twelve, eat more or less as you describe. During the holidays they probably eat slightly more junk than when at school (the odd biscuit and hot chocolate and ice cream). However they have always eaten this amount of food and are both very tall and slim (looking more like fourteen and eleven than there chronological age).

I remember as a kid going round to a friends house to stay and being starving so people feed their kids different amounts and different types of food.

Your kids don't sound greedy to me. X

Judge it by how they look. One of my dc is overweight, god knows how, eats less than what you have described. The other three are skinny. Still haven't worked it out but if your kids look healthy stick with what you're doing.

My DS is 7 and eats either the same or a little more than that a mix of healthier food and some treats. He playes lots of sport and only has one day a week not playing said sport. He is the height of an 11 year old but skinnier. He once went to weatherspoons on a Sunday and ordered the adult brunch and ate all but 5 beans (after a lot of the above fore mentioned sporting activity). He is tall and thin but could eat me out of house and home. Today he has had 2 lunches . He wasn't fed a lot as a baby he controlled his own portion sizes. Don't worry about it if they are correctly proportioned and the majority of the food is healthy and they are active, they will be fine