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?!

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Does she need to be eating a restricted calorie diet?

Firstly, we don't know the exact portion sizes so it's at best a guesstimate and secondly, these are only calories OP knows about. I sincerely doubt she is told about every bite of something

Exactly. How many of us tell everyone we know about the giant bag of crisps and a twix we eat in front of I'm a celebrity every evening.

@ComeOnBabyHauntMyBubble

The real issues here aren't what she eats and how much of. They are 1.whether this change in her diet is affecting her.. so weight loss,less energy,change in mood etc 2.whether it's a real choice ,or something driven by her husband.

I don't care if my kid was 2,12,22 or 52.

If the answer was yes to either or both of those I would be worried.

A very sensible post, I agree,