Is this a suitable tea for my kids?

[Happyhappyveggie]

So they are having a fishfinger sandwich each with cucumber sticks and a chopped up pear each with 2 Petit filous each for pudding.

They have also had:
Shreddies for breakfast
Mid morning fruit
Hot school dinner each with veg and a pudding
Snacks at the childminders - mixed veg sticks with houmous, pain au choc, raisins and an apple.

My mother was disgusted with tea - she thinks I'm not feeding them properly - they prefer this kind of tea sometimes- like scrambled egg on toast or beans on toast.

Aibu or is my mother?

I would keep a check on the sugar. Petit filous, fruit and pain au chocolat and raisins is a lot of sugar. There is also sugar in bread, fruit drinks etc. Just something to be aware of.

It’s good to me! They are gettin omega3 from the fish plus one of there 5 a day. Moms aye 😂

Well if you go through what they have had throughout the day they have had more fruit than what my girls will both eat 👍🏼

Absolutely fine - balanced tea. They have already had hot lunch so sandwich is fine and they are having fish, fruit and veg. Better than most are having.

Sounds good to me. They’ve already had a cooked meal.

Sounds absolutely fine to me & plenty of protein in the fish fingers. Sort of thing my 2.5 year old eats for tea, when he can be persuaded. Good wiv meat & veg (& fruit generally), loves eggs, will eat fish fingers at home if pushed & fish at nursery (eg fish pie) - not a massive fish fan. Weird about potato, only if in mood, but will ALWAYS be happy wiv chips or sweet potato fries. Strange kid ☺

I think you're doing brilliantly! Pretty sure we had toast & butter or mini pizzas (french stick pizza etc), pasta, corn beef hash, wiv mum after school when we were kids & she was SAHM.

The quinoa / kale bridgade are the loons - not you! If i got my DS to eat kale under any circumstances, i would clearly need psychiatric assessment as some sort of Mommie Dearest type!!

He's good wiv bread & crossiants / crumpets / bagels too, loves rice & pasta. Snacks range from fruit, hummous & veg sticks, raisins to pom bears, baby rice cakes & sometimes a big Didi (biscuit - big refers to normal cookie size, like tesco own chocolately cookies, etc - bigger than mini vienesse whirl or mini choc chip cookie from waitrose). Also is faintly obsessed with "yo-yo" (yoghurt).

Sweetcorn rings & carrot sticks by organix too.

By Loves eggs, i mean happily eats a fried egg sandwich if cut into bits - yep he's 2.5 years old.

PS me & hubby hate fish! I have very rarely eaten a fish finger & never a fish finger sandwich. However, I'm realiably informed by most people i know (not hubby) that they are the dogs doo-dahs!!!

Only my in-laws give him petis filou. I would never!! Sis is type 1 diabetic & my mum thought they were the devils work.

To update you all, my food shop arrived last night with my battered fish fingers! i made my fish finger butty thanks to this thread and it was lovely! My daughter even had one as a second tea

As long as there was protein in school dinner adding to the fish in the fish finger sounds fine to me. What was your M , thinking would be better?

Why does it matter if there was protein in the lunch?
Not every meal, or every day has to be a perfect balance.
I'm beginning to think not many people on here actually enjoy food or are relaxed about it, I find it completely baffling.

Ooooooh fishfinger sandwich yummy with salad cream.
And also... whats wrong with petit filous?

Petit filous are unfortuantely full of sugar. An 85g pot has 10g in which is more than half the recommended daily sugar intake for a child. So if you add fruit, fruit juices, other snacks with sugar in you very quickly access the advisable sugar levels whilst thinking that the diet appears healthy. It's clever marketing by the food companies and is unfortunately why so many kids are getting too fat and having tooth decay.

*exceed not access

Thumbs up from me.

Wish people would get over this sugar crap.its a little yoghurt.for years its been a mums good go too snack.still is...key word is balance.sugar has become the new buzzword.Ffs last yr it was fats.its just balance health wellness ENJOYMENT.because heaven forbid we enjoy food again and just eat well.

I agree balance is important. Have a petit filous....just don't also have a pudding, sugary cereal, a pain au chocolat, lots of fruit etc in the same day. Or your kid is much more likely to get tooth decay/diabetes. Its ok to have that on the odd day but if that amount of sugar is had regularly then it will cause a problem. *I'm a health professional and half my patients have diabetes