Is this too much food??

[Nightgardenisodd]

Toddler Dd, 3, her dinner today. Very hot where we are, lots of salads etc. We made bread today, so possibly a bit more than normal here, with the bread included.
My mum says I feed her too much food and no wonder she doesn’t eat it all. I don’t expect her to eat it all, but like to give her a varied choice in the hope she chooses parts and eats something, which she does.
Dd is a normal weight etc.
Aibu or is this an okay amount of food for her for dinner?

@MrsSkylerWhite

minty133

What the heck is Portuguese cheese? And why does the bread look like dried-up tuna?

Oh it’s bread I thought that’s a lot of tuna!

If it were tuna it would be around 3 teaspoon fulls so not exactly a lot. Instead it's around 3 teaspoon fulls of homemade bread. Too much it seems for some hungry adults 😃

@Bigtoejoe All I know is my Dd, they’re all different, knew just one and nothing else wouldn’t be enough and she was soon asking for more food 🤣perhaps my girl just has a fairly big appetite 🤷🏻‍♀️

@liveforsummer are your teaspoons bigger than an egg?

www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/portuguese-creme-caramel-recipe/8j6aupz1

Like this ^

Or similar to this

braziliankitchenabroad.com/brazilian-flan/

@Ghosttile Ohhh the Pudim/flan type one, I’m not a msssive dessert person, but bolo do bolachas ( biscuit type cake) and a bolo de Berlim on the beach from the donut guys, are the best 😋

@Boatonthehorizon

The older generation ate less and insisted on finishing it all. Rationing wasnt that long ago and its an effect from that. Wasting food hits them as a core immorality. Your meal looks perfect.

"The older generation" who experienced rationing are unlikely to have a 3yo grandchild. More like in their 60s! My kids great grandparents were only 5 when rationing ended.

@Bigtoejoe

Well I now feel bad about only giving my 3 year old 1 weetabix... He does sometimes have something else but not always. A standard adult portion is 2 so I would have thought that'd be way too much for most children - I know they're all different but I'm surprised at the general horror on this thread of only offering one!

I would agree, my 3 year old wouldn't eat that much. But many people I know were giving their babies 2 whole weetabix when they were about 18 months old 🤷‍♀️

It's a great meal, so varied and nutritious. I would have been so happy if mine had eaten that at 3!

live for summer

f it were tuna it would be around 3 teaspoon fulls so not exactly a lot. Instead it's around 3 teaspoon fulls of homemade bread. Too much it seems for some hungry adults 😃“

I thought the plate was bigger. Hadn’t even noticed the egg for comparison. I clearly seriously need to go to specsavers

Either way, very good lunch for a 3 year old.

That's absolutely loads. SO much tuna -- and why is it absolutely drench in mayo?
Your daughter's stomach is only about the size of her balled fist. No wonder she doesn't eat it all. What a waste, too.

It’s not tuna, it’s homemade bread that the child helped to make.

My mistake. But what happened to the crusts? Hard and crunchy foods are very important... kids aren't supposed to just eat mush and soft foods.

It’s hardly “drenched” in Mayo.

😂 drenched in mayo
Classic mumsnet

Lol. I think this thread is over.

Your daughter's stomach is only about the size of her balled fist.
Not true, the ‘the size of your fist and the size of their fist shows you how much smaller their stomach is’ has some how turned into this stupid comment. ‘The size of their fist’ gives you an indication of how much smaller to make their meal compared to yours.

Not fist=stomach

@suspiria777

That's absolutely loads. SO much tuna -- and why is it absolutely drench in mayo? Your daughter's stomach is only about the size of her balled fist. No wonder she doesn't eat it all. What a waste, too.

Are you even looking at the same picture as the rest of us?

Also the OP has already clarified anything uneaten is easily packaged up for lunch tomorrow.

Drenched in Mayo? It’s toothpaste sized blob..

suspiria777 I misread your name as ‘superior’ and thought ‘how apt’.

@TheGumption

😂 drenched in mayo Classic mumsnet

I thought the random chunks of crustless bread were globs of tuna and mayo -- it's weird to see bread in that form and at first glance I mistook it for tuna mayo. If it WERE tuna mayo it would be drenched...

Between the egg yolk and the cheese, though, I don't think this meal also needed a tablespoon of mayo as well.

Between the egg yolk and the cheese, though, I don't think this meal also needed a tablespoon of mayo as well

Aah, do you not? I'll alert the Mayonnaise Police (Infant and Toddler Section), they've got an Interpol residency in Portugal I think, next to the Tuna Misidentification Crimes dept.

@mathanxiety, your post about your mum and her food horror resonated with me. Mine would definitely rather be thin than happy.

Makes egg salad for my own lunch later

It's fine, OP. If she's a healthy weight and she's eating a variety of healthy foods then you're doing everything right. Keep your mum's pernickety food issues away from your daughter!

Between the egg yolk and the cheese, though, I don't think this meal also needed a tablespoon of mayo as well.

Its a tiny squirt of mayo, how small are your tablespoons if you think that's a table spoons worth? Maybe the toddler wanted some on her plate and her mum decided fuck it, its not worth the argument or maybe said toddler wanted something to dip her bread into. Either way it's hardly noteworthy.