To think this isn’t the right foods to live on?

[KaleBeans]

DD is fairly young still (but old enough to choose what she’s eating since I’m not always seeing her all the time).

A typical day would be:

Breakfast: A banana, whole orange and mini cathedral city cheese.

Lunch: Jacket potato with butter and cheese. Or a tomato soup with slice of bread and butter. Or a ham sandwich with a pack of snapping Jacks and Kit Kat. On a Friday a portion of small chips.

Fruit: Whole pocket of pineapple fingers, sometimes x2. Watermelon. Half a cucumber. Celery stick with cream cheese. Smoothie.

Dinner: Often nothing. Sometimes pesto pasta with cheese.

Drinks at least 2 litres of ‘lemon infused’ water a day

This isn’t enough protein, is it?!

How do you know so much about what she's eating?

@KaleBeans

She’s a nurse and also breastfeeding so I didn’t think it to be enough at all. She’s still like a little girl in my eyes so I worry sometimes didn’t want to say her she at the start of thread as I know loads of people would tell me to keep out entirely etc

You dropping this in now is convincing me - keep out entirely!

The fact you felt you had to misrepresent the situation to get responses you liked makes me feel very sorry for your poor DD. I think you need to leave her alone to live her life. She may feel like your little girl, but she is a grown adult, and you will stunt her whole life if you keep trying to control her in this way.

@KaleBeans you sound like a lovely mum to her don’t worry and no judgement - plenty of mums like you around thankfully!

@KaleBeans

There’s not really any vegetables at all which I think is a huge concern

Apart from banana, whole orange, Jacket potato, tomato (soup), a portion of small chips, pineapple fingers, sometimes x2, watermelon, half a cucumber, celery and a smoothie.

Everyone is obsessed with protein these days. But yes she should be eating dinner, why isn't she?

I thought you were talking about a child!

When I was bf I seemed to need oats - anything with oats appealed to me - porridge, types of museli, hobnobs. Would she eat porridge?

How about chicken for protein? Or eggs?

I cannot see any essential chocolate there.

I have only mentioned this to her once, which is when I suggested a little dinner like a bit of fish etc. Her husband is vegan and she’s dropped hints before that he makes her feel very uncomfortable about food

OP is very close to her daughter, who is still quite young. Please don’t attack her for her concern, especially as her daughter is BF and working as a nurse.

The fact that she omitted that info tells you a lot about MN.

OP do you have issues with food?

@KaleBeans

If she’s having jacket potato at lunch, for example, she really doesn’t need another hot meal in the evening.

Really? I thought that was really bad. A jacket potato is hardly having a stuffing lunch

Surely that depends on the potato?

There's a difference between a tiny potato with a wave of butter and an ounce of cheese and a hulking massive potato with a big filling.

Same with the soup. If it's half a cup of soap with a tiny slice of bread that's a very different story to a hearty portion of filling chunky soup with a hulk of bread.

There's nothing wrong with having your "main" meal at lunchtime.

@Schummakker

OP is very close to her daughter, who is still quite young. Please don’t attack her for her concern, especially as her daughter is BF and working as a nurse.

The fact that she omitted that info tells you a lot about MN.

Grow up. Please.

Goodness me, she’s 22 and a mother - she can choose what to eat!

@SarahAndQuack Yes because “grow up” is such a mature response.

Lemon water daily will eat up her teeth enamel.

@KaleBeans

I have only mentioned this to her once, which is when I suggested a little dinner like a bit of fish etc. Her husband is vegan and she’s dropped hints before that he makes her feel very uncomfortable about food

If you are really worried about her husband, talk to him?

But before you do, you really do need to educate yourself about basic nutrition, so you don't say silly things. A lot of her diet is clearly fine.

@DressingGownofDoom

Everyone is obsessed with protein these days. But yes she should be eating dinner, why isn't she?

Why should she be? I don't eat breakfast, can't stomach it for whatever reason. Is there a rule that says I (or the OPs DD) must eat 3 meals a day?

Apart from banana, whole orange, Jacket potato, tomato (soup), a portion of small chips, pineapple fingers, sometimes x2, watermelon, half a cucumber, celery and a smoothie They are food intake over a week. I've a small appetite in comparison to many and I think it is a tiny amount for a grown women.
OP your a concerned DM.
Don't mention it to her anymore she is a big girl and a health professional she will see it as badgering.
If she has a partner they'll see if there is a serious problem.

[quote Schummakker]@SarahAndQuack Yes because “grow up” is such a mature response. [/quote]
We're not in the playground FFS. It's not something to grin and giggle about.

*woman

Try to find out a bit more as to what husband is saying/doing to make her feel so tense about food.

Christ this place. A jacket potato at lunch is not a substitute for eating dinner whoever said that you have food issues I'm sorry.

If she has a partner they'll see if there is a serious problem

I don’t think he will

She’s massively underrating especially if she’s breastfeeding. Is she worried about her weight post pregnancy?

I’m making that probably around 1000 calories a day. Plus some yoghurts from time to timez

@SarahAndQuack oh dear are you still at me? Please go do something or comment something productive as I have no time for your petty beef.