To say if...

[bumblebee39]

You're hungry you'll eat your breakfast/lunch/dinner and to cut all snacks from DC (5 yr1) until she starts eating her meals?
Honestly sick of throwing perfectly good food away at this point....

I feel your pain! My 3 year old would live on a diet of apples, crisps and milk if she could get away with it!

Depends. Some children will be little and often, just like some adults.

It's none of her dinner but any snack ever offered or stolen from the biscuit tin. She used to eat meals brilliant but now refuses and then moans all day saying she's hungry.

YANBU. If my son is full on snacks he won’t eat dinner, my rule is snack after food or he’d never eat. And like you say, they just get hungry again anyway.

I would try to find out why there’s this change. But also maybe limit accessible snacks to the healthier end of the spectrum.

If she’s gone from eating lunch and dinner fine but now isn’t you need to get to the bottom of that.

I know why it's because other DC is weaning so lives on snack foods and finger foods because he needs to get a taste for solids and she feels hard done by getting proper food. Also, her Dad used to make her finish her plate and didn't "believe" in snacks so I think she's taking advantage of me being a single parent X

So there’s a lot going on in this little girl’s world, parents split up and a newish baby? I would cut her some slack but also why can’t the baby eat the same food as her? Maybe get her involved with weaning the baby, ask her to demonstrate to baby how to eat, that kind of thing? Might make things a bit easier for you anyway!

But don’t get into a battle of wills, you’ve obviously got a lot on your plate right now. Just keep the sugary crap to a minimum.

It's frustrating though because I make breakfast, lunch and dinner which all go in the bin for both kids, and then spend the rest of the day being hassled for crisps, biscuits, cucumber, dried fruit, snack cheese and crackers. With the baby I mind less as know he is still eating. I'm hoping at least at school she's eating so won't be too bad, and considering getting her in breakfast and/or after school club as she eats much better with peers.

She eats better when she has friends round but acts out sometimes too. She always eats perfectly at other people's houses and makes me look like a fraud 😂