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To ask me how much your 8yo's and 6yo's eat, and what activity they do?

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cardiffqueen · 26/09/2018 21:22

I have two DS's who seem to eat constantly. It's really hard to fill them up.I'd like some perspective on how much an average child of this age eats too. They are both slender, but I worry that if they keep on eating what they do, they'll start to get chunky.
Also physical activity, formal and informal. What's normal / average?

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PinotAndPlaydough · 26/09/2018 22:04

Mine are 7 and 5 a typical day is

Breakfast- bowl of Cheerios and sometimes a piece of fruit or a babybel

Lunch- typical school lunch during the week, at the weekend it’ll be a sandwich, cucumber and carrot sticks, some fruit and maybe a organix bar.

After school snack- something like breadsticks, nuts, cheese, organix bar, piece of fruit.

Dinner- varies but favourites include chicken and chickpea curry with rice, jacket potato with tuna and salad, Shepard’s pie with 3 types of veg, sausages with mash and veg etc. Sometimes a pudding sometimes just fruit.

If they are hungry between meals they get fruit (I’m sure some people will think they have too much!) or cucumber and carrots.

We walk to and from school every day, go swimming once a week, usually the park or soft play at the weekends, we don’t drive so walk a lot, eldest does beavers which is very active but other than that it’s just normal kid activity and play.

Eldest is very slender, youngest is more curvy but still in the healthy range. We have treats, nothing is forbidden, food isn’t used as a punishment or reward, they are encourage to try new foods and we eat out a fair bit too. Some days they have to much junk so I try and balance that through the week.

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