To feed my 3 yo this for dinner...

[TheSheepofWallSt]

DS has been at nursery all day. He had breakfast at home, second breakfast at nursery, snack, lunch and afternoon snack.
He’s not going to starve.

It’s too bloody hot to cook so I ordered pizza from a naice chain about an hour ago. Still not here, restaurant can’t tell me how long it’ll be and DS needs a bath and to get to bed.

AIBU to give him:
Cutted up orange
Cucumber sticks
Carrot sticks
Breadsticks
Full fat Greek Yogurt bowl with crispies, but of dried fruit, chia seeds etc?

For dinner?!

I know it’s a bit shit. It’s just so hot and I really really don’t want to start making a dinner dinner now if he’s just going to fall asleep (filthy) before it’s on the table....

I don’t have any cheese. Or ham. Or anything animal based except the yogurt because I was a knob head, left the fridge open yesterday when it was 10000 degrees and everything went wrong in there.

Picky tea is the worst phrase ever

Incorrect. ‘Picky bits‘ is the worst phrase ever.

Sounds like a great dinner to me, for anytime really. He'll love it!

Far too much sugar. You might as well give him a snickers bar as give the poor child a whole orange.

Just kidding - usually that gets said on these threads. dinner sounds lovely and cool.

well, if you look at the fruit content of dried fruits...

(yes, I am joking too!)

*sugar content... duh!

I would have thought the yoghurt would provide a decent dose of protein.

I think it's fine every so often for a meal to be like that.

Oooh! A bitsa! We always had a bitsa for tea on a saturday - bitsa this and bitsa that. Basically a plate of whatever we could find - and sometimes that was a very weird tea!!

Sounds perfectly adequate. This is a brave place to ask though! 😂

@Springster calm down

It doesn't necessarily sound very calorie dense, but depends on the proportions. My 17 month old would probably eat that as a snack before dinner. But if it's more yogurt and breadstick and not all just fruit and veg, sounds fine if it fills them up. I would probably add in some cheese cubes though for extra fat and protein.

It sounds blinking marvellous on one hot day. Chill and relax.

Don't cutted up yer oranges, just segment em innit!

I want your sons dinner right now. Okay maybe only the bread sticks to dip in the yoghurt (maybe adding a little garlic and cucumber)

Sounds fine, every week we have a picky bits dinner but my dd7 has renamed it piggy bits😁

Sounds good to me! Greek yogurt is actually very nutritious

Chia seeds [hhm]
It’s pizza express isn’t it op?

We call meals like that tapas (even when they were toddlers) It was often an excuse for me to use fruit/veg that needed to be used , leftovers as well as food that was close to useby date.

A typical tapas meal would be carrot sticks, bolognese sauce (for dipping) , strawberries, ham and a yoghurt. My kids still enjoy tapas - it's not as random as back then but still weird. Think tempura prawns, chicken pakora, salami... 😂 Don't know why I picked the word tapas rather than picnic

"I think it's fine every so often for a meal to be like that."

it's just essentially a normal lunch meal though.

if OP had said "My kids lunch was breadsticks and cucumber a cucumber sandwich, some carrot sticks, an orange, a full fat plain yoghurt with a bit of dried fruit and seeds in"

people wouldn't have batted an eyelid! you might have had the odd "waaaahhh...dried fruit is the devil" comments - but otherwise, it;s pretty much what a lot of the nation has for lunch!

it's because it was served for dinner, and people seem to think lunch food is not an acceptable thing to offer past 2 pm :/

My nearly three year old had strawberries, blueberries, 2 babybel, cucumber and cherry tomatoes. He loved it and so did I I because I didn't have to cook!

my DS had leftover chilli for breakfast today.... food is food! doesn't matter when you have it...

There is a foodie program that I keep catching on the BBC - think after Saturday Morning Kitchen. I know nothing about it, other that they were at a school catering for all cuisines for all main cultures there - so Indian, Sri Lankan, maybe Chinese (see I wasn't paying much attention) but every time I see it, I see kids eating sambal and rice and veggies for breakfast and it looks so lovely! I think it's only us westerners that think pouring another animals milk onto sugar coated grains is a normal start to the day.

cereals are treat food in this house! buy one box once a month

Except for porridge. They can have as many oats as they like...cheaper and more filling!

My children have skipped meals and had Greek yoghurt fruit and granola when hot and tired. Greek yoghurt seems to be quite filling.

But I would offer extra or a bowl of cereal or anything similar just to make sure your DS isn't still hungry.

"But I would offer extra or a bowl of cereal or anything similar just to make sure your DS isn't still hungry."

Why would he be hungry after the tea mentioned, breakfast at home, second breakfast at nursery, snack, lunch and afternoon snack?

presumably he ate until full when he had his tea??

Is this lighthearted? My kids had hot dog sausages and scrambled egg then a shed load of ice cream covered in m&m's! Do people really worry about this? I don't think you need to justify it tbh!

My 2 year old has had apple, a packet of cheese and onion Pom bears and a couple of carrot sticks for tea. Completely refused anything else.