What have your kids eaten today?

[Twisterlollies]

I have 2 kids age 3 and 6 and I often have wobbles over whether I’m feeding them enough or the right things…

So a non shaming thread where I can see what ‘average’ looks like would be helpful!

I’ll start because it’s annoying when OP doesn’t do that:

Breakfast - bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese (NOT a normal breakfast, it was about to go off! They both had 1 half of the bagel as the top had ‘yucky seeds on’)

Snack - Apple, handful of crackers

Lunch - Bowl of pasta from last night dinner with a jar sauce, carrot and crumbly cheese

Snacks - melon, chocolate rice cakes (2 each)

Dinner will be chicken curry with rice.

They still seem to act like I’m starving them!

My teen, currently in the middle of his GCSE:

Breakfast - museli, with pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, flax seed, bee pollen, semi skimmed milk and berries. Followed an hour later with 2 scramlbed eggs on 1 slice of toast.

Snack - apple

Lunch - ham and lettuce sandwich on a wholemeal roll, satsuma and yellow pepper on the side

Snack - 3 weetabix, handful of mixed nuts with semi skimmed milk

Dinner - will be steak, home made sweet potato fries, mushroom, and purple brocoli

He will likely have peanut butter on toast for supper.

For context he is 6ft 1, plays sports and bike rides and is very slim. I think i should have bought shares in cereal when he was younger.

Four year old, solo parenting, day 4 of half term, not a great eater 😵‍💫

Breakfast - cereal and brioche (homemade brioche but brioche nonetheless!!!)

Morning snack - carrot cake (met a friend for coffee,they stole some of mine)

Lunch - Broccoli and green vegetable soup, ham wrap, cucumber and carrot batons (cucumber and carrot firmly rejected)

Afternoon snack - Apple and peanut butter

Dinner - Roast chicken with mash, peas (maybe eaten 4??), tenderstem broccoli (inhaled broccoli soup, refused to eat this broccoli) and gravy

After dinner - Natural yogurt with honey and frozen berries

I’d say yours are doing absolutely fine OP!! I’m a year 1 teacher and I’ve seen kids thrive on plain baked potatoes and literally nothing else 🤦🏻‍♀️ I give mine vitamin drops and trust they’ll get less fussy as they get older - I eat everything now and was SUCH a poor eater when younger!

Holy moly, how can people afford teenage boys!!

that sounds fine OP but I think kids sometimes are just like bottomless pits aren’t they!

My 7 year old DSS is AuDHD so sometimes can be very weird with and around food but today has been a good day. He generally is more of a snacker than a meal eater but does eat quite healthy snacks and eats A LOT of cucumber.

B - cinnamon cereal
L - cheese and ham toastie with grapes, strawberries and 2 satsumas
D - ham and vegetable tart with potatoes and cucumber
S - cucumber, some crisps, a couple of ice poles

breakfast: chocolate crepes and a compote

snack: apple and breadstick

lunch: carrot sticks, tomato + tuna + mozarella and some crisps
yogurt and grapes

afternoon snack: an ice lolly, and a couple of chocolate biscuits

diner:
cucumber then omelette, slice of toast
yogurt

7 year old-
Weetabix (2) with milk and a big cup of milk

Lunch - cheese sandwich, apple, pineapple juice

Snack- 2 chocolate almonds and another cup of milk

Dinner- she's having rice and peas with fish
Sponge cake after.

Breakfast - granola with milk

Snack - pomegranate seeds and garibaldi biscuits

Lunch - ham sandwiches

Snack - popcorn

Dinner - not decided

Teenager revising for A levels:

Breakfast 9am: Smoked salmon, cream cheese bagel thin.

Lunch 12pm: Rana mushroom tortellini with tomato mascarpone sauce.

Snack 2pm: M&s cream cheese stuffed red peppers.
(I don’t think there were any other snacks but she might have things in her bedroom).

Supper: 5pm: Steak on the bbq, watermelon, mint, cucumber feta salad, mangetout, carrots.

I guarantee she will want another full meal or a lot of snacks before bed but she’ll make it herself. We eat early as we intermittent fast most days.

11 year old
I think he had some Pokemon cereal for breakfast. Beyond that…I don’t think he’s had anything else.
8 year old
He had some strawberries this morning and I think he had a go ahead bar around lunch time. Again, beyond that he hasn’t had anything.
Ive only had a cold bacon sandwich all day. Husband had a slice of quiche and some bread and butter.
It’s not like everyone’s starving either. And they all know they can get food. But no one seems to want to eat in the holidays.

10 year old dd:
fruit salad with Greek yogurt
chicken and lettuce baguette
carrot Batons and grapes
Turkey burger (home made) with salad
lemonade ice lolly

Breakfast: Jordans country crisp with oat milk.

Lunch: Sausage, beans and chips.

Snack: Handful of chocolate chips

Dinner: Vegan aubergine and courgette mousaka and salad.

He's 14

The last few days he's pretty much lived off salad and cereal because it's been so hot.

68 year old granny and 2 grandchildren aged 4 and 6 for the day.

Breakfast - vegetable omelette with sourdough toast and butter

Snack - yoghurt

Lunch - pan fried salmon, baked potato, avacado salad and homemade dressing.

snack - mini sized bounty each plus mango slices

Dinner - roast chicken thighs, carrots, broccoli, mashed potato and gravy.

I think it is pretty much ok OP.

If you were really wanting to tweak, I'd try to slip in at least one portion of greens each day, and I am not a fan of jar sauce as it is truly so easy to simmer your own cherry tomatoes (or even a tin of chopped tomatoes) and just blitz it to avoid all the stabilisers, salt and often sugar in a jar sauce! DC won't know the difference.

Ds1 a 6’2” teen has eaten:

overnight oats, blueberries and banana. Bagel and peanut butter.

yoghurt and strawberries.

egg and avocado salad, apple, kiwi, pear.

Homemade protein shake

salmon, sweet potato and broccoli for dinner..

no doubt will have fruit toast later or a tea cake.

drinks black tea and water.

My other younger ones have all eaten roughly the same but less and minus the snacks.

Mine are 4 and 6 are are on holiday,so they've had
Breakfast - chocolate cereal. The eldest also had half an almond pastry with me
Lunch - ham and cheese sandwich, crisps, an apple
Dinner - a steak hache (beef burger), new potatoes and a ton of green beans.
Snacks - 2 ice lollies and grapes

A normal day would look a lot more like -
Porridge with honey and chia seeds (or shreddies)
Lunch - half a packet of crisps, cucumber or carrot, apple or pear, ham, cheese
Dinner - sausage and lentils casserole, mince with a blended veggie sauce and rice, pork with wedges, corn, broccoli, etc. chocolate mousse for pudding. They dont massively snack, maybe an ice lolly or a lollipop from the shop..and fruit. Lots of fruit

All kids -14, 11, 10 and 6 for breakfast:

Porridge with seeds/dried fruit and honey/banana or blueberries.
Juice
Toast with peanut butter

Packed lunch for the 11 year old at cricket camp

Boursin and cucumber sandwich (homemade bread, white)
Nature valley bar
A carrot
Satsuma
Banana
Melon and grapes
Plain yoghurt and honey
Mini cheddars

When he got in:

Cuppa soup (left over from D ofE!)
Penguin bar
Elderflower.lolly

Everyone else for lunch :

Indian carrot fritters /onion bajhis on pitta with yoghurt /green salad /mango chutney..

All.kids for supper

Omelette with cheddar, spinach and sweetcorn, chips, salad.and baguette
More melon.

They will have more snacks before bed, probably crumpets/fruit/nuts.
We are ALWAYS cooking or food shopping!

Wow! Their parents must be thrilled at the quality of grandparent care here, I would be! 😋

ALLLLL the ice lollies 😀

Kids can eat an incredible amount of food. 4 year old today has had egg and soldiers for breakfast, usually has porridge. Lunch at nursery was a pasta dish with garlic bread. At home he’s had a plate of curry, rice and poppadoms followed by a bowl of strawberries and blueberries. He’s in the bath now, planning what his supper will be! He usually has something like a banana, yoghurt, oatcakes and cheese, peanut butter sandwich etc for supper. There have been evenings where he’s had all of these even after a big plate of dinner!

2 year old and 6 year old

Cereal with milk
Banana
Tuna sandwich with cucumber and tomatoes
An orange
A biscuit
Some chicken pieces
Beef stir fry
An ice lolly

They both eat almost equal amounts despite the age difference. Two year old ate slightly less of the stir fry.

DD - 13
No breakfast
Lunch - medium fries and shake at McDonald’s
Dinner - huge jacket with seafood cocktail / prawns and salad, beetroot

DS - 11
Breakfast - Fruit n fibre with semi skimmed milk
Lunch - Tuna, sweetcorn mayo sandwich, pepperami and a choc chip cereal bar
Snack - Magnum
Dinner - I think Chinese (sleepover at friends)

DS - 8
Breakfast - 2 x peanut butter on toast, glass of milk
Lunch - cheese & ham wrap, pepperami and grapes
Snack - magnum
Dinner - huge jacket with cheese, ham, spring onion & sour cream, loads of salad
Now just having some biscuits!

They’ve not been overly hungry this week with this heat and normally do eat more!

Oats/almonds/milk/banana for breakfast.

Packed lunch with brown rye bread sandwiches. 1 with ham & cheese and 1 with chicken & salad, cucumber, apple slices, 2 boiled eggs, nuts (yes, nuts are allowed). School dinners are cancelled by school this week. Secondary school.

Carrots + pizza slice (homemade pizza from yesterday's dinner) snack 10 am.

A sourdough bun with cheese and jam - after school snack.

Bread, tomato & smoked salmon and a fruit salad for dinner. Cold dinner ln Thursdays because of sport and late home.

Thank you for the compliment, Twister. The two I had today are the youngest of eight — the eldest is almost 21. I’m lucky that I’m given free rein with all of my brood, and it’s just as well I am because I could never get to grips with baby-led weaning. It scared the bejesus out of me, despite me trying to take it in my stride, and I was told very early on, “Just feed them the way you fed us.” So I did, and still do.

I have managed to adopt a lot of the new ways of doing things/ideas and I have the greatest respect for young parents today who have to know so much.

Would you believe that I breastfed 5 children, one of them for almost 3 years, but it was only when I became a granny for the first time that I learned how breast feeding actually worked. My daughter explained it to me. I’m in awe of the things my daughters and daughters in law know.

Breakfast cereal
Lunch barbecue meat sandwich
Tea pog soup
Snacks are ice cream and ice pops because its hot over here

We can't! 💵