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To ask how much your toddlers eat?

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Neverwasapancakegi7l · 09/09/2017 16:26

My dd (20 months) seems to exist on air.
I've read that they are meant to eat around 130g carbohydrate a day. We are nowhere near that!
She's not underweight or anything but I find most days she barely eats breakfast, she might have some lunch and then she has a reasonable tea. She's just not that fussed.

Is this normal?!

Today she had a cup of tea and a few strawberries at breakfast, 7oz of milk at naptime and then at lunch she had one square of cheese sandwich and half a banana, mid afternoon she had a small chocolate bar and a handful of vegetable sticks and for dinner she is having stuffed peppers and vegetables with some cherries and blueberries after. She will probably eat most of this. Then another 7oz milk before bed.
It barely seems anything.
Other people's toddlers seem to eat and eat. If I bought those ready made toddler meal things my daughter would probably only eat half at most. Obviously she isn't starving or anything but it worries me a bit when basically she goes all day on a quarter of a cheese sandwich!

OP posts:
Applesandpears56 · 09/09/2017 21:35

Chocolate yes - tea - honestly you shouldn't be giving children caffeine

Crabbo · 09/09/2017 21:43

My dd likes to have some of dh's iced green tea. God knows why, it's foul.

silverbell64 · 09/09/2017 21:44

a milky watered down tea is fine.

WineIsMyMainVice · 09/09/2017 21:45

That sounds fine to me.

kaytee87 · 09/09/2017 21:49

My 13mo today:

Breakfast: 30g porridge with ff milk & half a bagel with cream cheese
Snack: banana
Lunch: 4 cocktail sausages, chopped tomato & 2 babybels
Snack: 3oz Greek yoghurt
Dinner: chilli con carne with rice
Supper: satsuma

I don't know where he puts it, he's 75th centile for height and 50th for weight.

BewareOfTheToddler · 09/09/2017 21:50

Mine is exactly two (as of last week) and a total grazer. We have days when he eats virtually nothing, and days when he never stops eating. Days when all he eats is fruit and days when it's beige foods only. He is very slim but in proportion (currently weighs 11.3kg).

He also has a very irritating habit of telling us he wants to eat, then rejecting all the options...

For us, weaning started well but a few months later he got a stomach bug and was off his food for weeks, and subsequently has been very fussy. Although eventually he'd eat anything at the childminder's.Hmm He is also still breastfed, at least twice daily.

A typical day for us would be along the following lines:

Breakfast: choice of Weetabix, toast, fruit, yogurt. Any combination/quantity is ok. Typically would have maybe half a slice of toast, a small banana and perhaps a small yogurt, or a Weetabix, half slice of toast and a few strawberries.

Snack: maybe a banana, Organix cereal bar, other fruit, breadsticks, or a biscuit.

Lunch: worst meal at the moment. Usually a peanut butter sandwich or a cheese spread sandwich, fruit, maybe a few baby crisps. If he doesn't eat any of it, we take it out with us as afternoon snack.

Snack: see above or something different to morning snack.

Dinner: it took us about nine months to get him eating hot food at home again Blush. Usually something like a sausage, fish finger or chicken, potato or pasta, and one or two veg (peas and sweet corn are current favourites). Yogurt or fruit after if he wants it, occasionally ice cream.

I try to get round the grazing thing by offering mainly healthy stuff so at least he grazes on sandwiches and bananas.

kaytee87 · 09/09/2017 21:54

applesandpears there's caffeine in chocolate too..

I agree though, small children really don't need caffeine. As if they need anymore excuse to stay awake 😆

Juanbablo · 09/09/2017 21:56

Sometimes Ds1 eats loads, sometimes barely anything. He's 3.6. Today he had:

Peanut butter on toast (1 slice)
3 crackers with homous
Box of raisins
Yoghurt
A few crisps and a biscuit when visiting my dad in hospital
Roast chicken, cauliflower cheese, peas, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding
Strawberries
Scrambled eggs on toast
Mini packet of Haribo

Not brilliant nutrition wise, he usually eats more vegetables and fruit but we need to go shopping so we are just using up what we have in. Volume wise he ate a lot today though.

oldlaundbooth · 09/09/2017 21:57

When DS was 20 months old I often thought that we should just forget actual food and just stick to milk, scrambled eggs, biscuits and purees. Total waste of time trying other stuff.

It's only recently that he's started eating properly, as in half a sandwich and bowl of soup for lunch, slice of banana bread for dessert. He's 3.5.

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