To feed my 3 yo this for dinner...

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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.

Sounds great OP. And really good for this weather too. The chia seeds and yoghurt provide protein, there’s fibre and vitamins in the fruit and veg, the bread sticks are carbs and the dried fruit is good for energy levels and in preventing constipation.

If you’ve grown up in food poverty it’s understandable that you feel paranoid regarding potentially feeling hungry but it sounds a wholesome, filling summer meal.

My two had cereal for tea 😂 Had fruit and cucumber as snacks but its hot 🔥 They happy I happy 😊

DH doesn’t say “picky bits”. Oh no. He says “bits and bobs”. 😡

You could have served some dead horse to go with the other naice cutted-up food.

Sounds perfectly fine. Mine had pepper and cucumber, mini cheddars, satsuma and frozen yogurt lollies. Didn’t want anything else.

Tomorrow we’ve got nice cheese and crackers and salad.

Major food groups covered without cooking, very sensible in this weather.

It fine.

I've had a cheese and pickle sandwich followed by a fab ice lolly.

My child has just had a cutted up apple. He's now 5 and I have recently become the only member of my household still to say cutted up.
Bloody MN.
Still, about a year ago he asked if he could join in his brother's game and be the 'wood cutterer uperrer', and I will always have that.

Oh and your son's dinner sounds fine.

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

I assumed that OP was asking because it seemed less substantial that what he normally has. So it seemed sensible to check if he was still hungry? That's what I would do with my children if I thought they might be hungry.

I'd put the flags out if any of my DC would eat a meal as nutritious as that.

My child has just had a cutted up apple. He's now 5 and I have recently become the only member of my household still to say cutted up.
Bloody MN.

I did my DD a cutted up apple a couple of weeks ago. She's 20.

And before some sanctimonious idiot starts talking about helpless snowflakes, she's a very competent young woman, just that 'cutted up apple' is a sort of tradition.

I think that will be us in 15 years.

nothing animal based
Eh? Does he need to eat part of an animal? Yuck what a weird thing to say.

I couldn’t be bothered to cook either, so I fed my 3 year old a ham roll with sliced cucumber, carrots, tomatoes and a handful of sliced grapes. She’s been fussy in this weather and she’s gone to bed happy.

"nothing animal based"
"Eh? Does he need to eat part of an animal? Yuck what a weird thing to say."

I thought that too. Where's the need to eat animal and how do vegetarians and vegans survive without it?