How many fish fingers?

[MrsMiddleMother]

Just dishing up dinner before I head out to work, just an easy fish fingers, chips and veg and suddenly thought 'how many fish fingers do I give an 11 year old? I wasn't sure whether 2 was enough or 3 too much, they do eat quite a lot.

How many would you give an 11 year old?

6, my 8yr old has 5?

I only read this to see how long until carbs came in. Poor kids. It's just food. Meanwhile less than a thousand miles from me children are starving to death every minute of the day.

5 or 6, and any left over if they want them, They are quite small these days.

Depends what else you’re serving with it. DS is nearly 2 and he will have 1 fishfinger because he loves beans, mash potatoes and sweetcorn and will binge on them so the fishfingers are wasted.

My mum would give DD4 5, but that’s because she strips them of the breadcrumbs 🙄🤣

Christ. My 3yo has 3! With chips!

(She's a bean pole on the 25th percentile for weight before any jumps in).

I’m going to have a fish finger sandwich now.

4

My 4 and 8 years olds have 4/5 each with peas normally (no chips) if they had chips and peas then 3/4 each and prob a slice of bread and butter.

My 8yo would eat 4

My 11yo has 4. My 8yo has 4 too. I would get LOOKS if I only dished up 2 .

@Draggondragon

I only read this to see how long until carbs came in. Poor kids. It's just food. Meanwhile less than a thousand miles from me children are starving to death every minute of the day.

I too was only reading to see how soon "carbs" popped up. Anytime now I expect to see "this is why we have an obesity crisis".

4

Probably three but I'd just ask child how many they wanted.

Birds eye/Sainsbury’s: 3 to 4… to 6

The posh Waitrose supersize ones: 1 or 2. They’re MASSIVE

My 2.5 year old can easily eat 3 with veg and a few chips. I'd say 4 at a minimum.

My 9 and 10 year olds get three because they come in a box of 8 and I have the remaining 2 in a sandwich!

The frozen Birds Eye type ones are tiny now. And they aren’t as nice as when I was a kid, they seem to just fall apart.

Birdseye type ones - 7 & 9 year olds have four each with chips and veg - any less and they'd be asking for more food pretty quickly afterwards. I'd let them have more if they were still hungry.

Both slim and average height.

My DC have never liked fish fingers but they do like chicken goujons which are roughly the same size. I give 2 to my dd 11 who has a small appetite and 4 to my ds13

My two year old ate two at the weekend with new potatoes peas and a corn on the cob (I'm not mean he won't eat chips)

I would say 4 or 5

@Comedycook any chicken goujons I’ve bought would be much more substantial than a Birds Eye fishfinger.

My 4 year old eats 4

Four for in a sandwich but as a fast food supper we buy the frozen pieces of fish in batter. The same idea as fishfingers but a decent amount of fish. 11 is rather old for fishfingers unless in a sandwich.