What does your 6yo have for breakfast?

[brogueish]

DS has medical problems connected to food/absorption and I’m not sure if my portion control is completely out of step. Hospital dietician is not especially helpful. I’m trying to work out a healthy and appropriate diet for him (in the literal sense, I’m not putting him “on a diet”!).

DS is overweight by BMI, you can see his ribs but he’s definitely not gaunt. His breakfast at 7ish today was a peanut butter sandwich, some melon, small bag of popcorn and a yogurt. He’s just (10.00) had an apple as a snack because he said he was hungry. This is pretty typical. He will be having lunch, tea, and a snack after swimming (probably a biscuit or cracker). He eats a good variety of fruit.

yabu: that’s way too much for breakfast
yanbu: sounds ok

The popcorn found its place because we couldn’t find a suitable cereal equivalent for him initially, and he couldn’t have milk. But things have moved on a bit and you’re right, that should come out now. He’s still not keen on milk and really only drinks water, and juice maybe 1-2 a week.

Lunches are school meals and tea is pretty standard pasta/chicken/pie/sausages stuff - or a sandwich and salad veg if he’s not very hungry. He’ll have a snack after school (e.g. cheese string and sone fruit) and then an apple before bed usually. I’m less concerned about those I think.

He’s gone from being very unwell and underweight - but eating constantly - to becoming obese (BMI) and now overweight. In the mix of it all, my perspective of “normal” has got less well defined so this has all been really useful feedback.