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!

BF - Son - multi grain cereal and milk, Daughter - Two nutella sandwiches

10 am Snack - Apple and pom bear( same for both) & water

12 pm Lunch - Son - Cucumber sandwiches, pick up , fruitshoot
Daughter - Chicken and bacon sandwiches, pick up, fruitshoot

2pm - Orange and wotsits ( same for both)

3.30 pm- Cereal bars for both

4.30 pm - Son - Toast -2 with butter, raisins
Daughter - toast - 4 with butter

6.30pm - Son/Daughter - Rice, lentils, fish fry and yoghurt, ice lollies

Both were at all day holiday club and played tennis all morning followed by football, dodgeball etc so this is what I packed and sent for them.

6 and 8 year old, half term.
breakfast - porridge with (frozen) cherries stirred through
lunch - homemade sausage roll (shop bought pastry), apple, yoghurt
tea - chilli con carne with rice, melon.
both had some millions sweets and the eldest had a tin of Aldi knock off Pepsi max.

7 year old...

Breakfast approx 8am: small bowl of weetos (ate half)
Hungry at about 9:30am: grapes and 2 small/kids size bananas
Lunch at 12: bagel with a slice of cheese in it, yoghurt pouch, packet of quavers, soreen fruit loaf thing
1:30pm ish: ice cream - one scoop vanilla with sprinkles, ate about 1/4 (after I paid nearly 4 quid for it...!)
Snack about 3:30pm: quarter of a packet of pom bears
Snack at about 4:30pm: about half a pot of houmous and breadsticks
Dinner at 6: the other half a pot of houmous, ritz crackers, 2x yoghurts, quavers, pear

Sadly a standard day!

Our 4yr twins and 5 yr

8am ish Breakfast 2 Weetabix with yogurt mixed in, slice of toast with jam and a banana each

12:30 ISH Lunch half a jacket potato for twins full for 5yr old with cheese savoury and side salad tomato,cucumber, beetroot followed by trifle and some strawberries

5ish Tea cheese and ham toasties, crisps, then a bowl with strawberries, grapes and apple and a yogurt

7:15ish just had 2 Weetabix and milk 5 yr has 3 Weetabix and now in bed done for the night

Its the cereal consumption that amazes me. I also grow a lot of food, strawberries, gooseberries, black berries, raspberries, blueberries, rhubarb, apples, pears, cherries, plums and loads of veg. We have a few grape vines, but only get a few bunches per per and they can be a bit sour. It really helps.

DS 10 and DS6. On holiday atm.

Breakfast: yoghurt and fruit
After hiking: chocolate pastry from local bakery, DS6 had a few bites but didn't like it.
Lunch: Big sausage roll from the bakery, DS6 also had some wotsits.
After swimming snack: Apple
Dinner: fish and chips on the beach, DS10 had an icecream, DS6 had a couple of bites of icecream and then swapped for half my ring donut instead (DH got the icecream instead)

They also both had a couple of pieces of fudge from a souvenir shop.

7 yo DD - fussy eater & has 2 uncomfortable wobbly front teeth at the mo which is affecting her diet further.

Not ‘average’ food days this week as it’s half term & 28 degree heat. She will only occasionally eat veg but usually has cucumber or pepper in sandwiches for packed school lunch & more fruit than today!

B: banana soreen bar, 2 strawberries, croissant with choc - hazelnut spread & tropical yoghurt drink

L: Minion plain pasta shapes with tomato ketchup (won’t eat homemade pasta sauce) and grated cheese, Cadbury’s mint chocolate ice cream

Snacks: popcorn, water, lemon Greek yoghurt, Ritz cheese cracker

I think we have similar 7 year olds! 😅

Ds age 16
Breakfast- very large bowl of coco pops
Lunch - 2 x pork pies, ham sandwich, entire punnet of raspberries, blueberry protein yogurt
Dinner - (a bbq) 2 cheeseburgers, 1 pork skewer. Another burger but not on a bun.
Snack - chocolate chip cookie

14 and 15 year old boys
Breakfast- Yoghurt, strawberries, blueberries banana and pain au chocolat
Lunch was out- one had Mexican scrambled eggs on sourdough with a Nutella milkshake,
the other had a chilli chicken wrap and a mocha,
Dinner- peach and burrata salad with pistachios
barbecued steak, ciabatta, new potatoes, broccoli, asparagus,
hot pineapple and ice cream,
In the evening they ate half a pack of amaretti biscuits between them and probably had a chocolate biscuit, fruit, yogurt or crackers through the day. I don’t really monitor their snacks, they’re both fit and healthy.

Seems so! Mine ate an entire tub of popcorn at the cinema yesterday and had pasta for tea. But very strictly only penne with tomato puree and grated cheese. But the cheese and the pasta must be separate.

Never pursued it but he'd definitely meet the criteria for a diagnosis of ARFID!

Teens aged 14-18

breakfast - cocopops
lunch - kfc meal
dinner - Pringles in the car (will make a sandwich when we get home)

This isn’t a standard day and was the first kfc 14 yos have ever had (second for 18yo). We went to a theme park.

4yo and 1yo;
Breakfast - 4yo a yoghurt, an apple, half a pear and a little scotch pancake
1yo a shitload of rice crispies (her brother really wanted to sort her breakfast so I didn’t have any say 😂), the other half of her brothers pear and some ham (again, her brothers doing, she loves ham 😂)

Snack at toddler group - banana, grapes, rice cake, strawberries and cheese cubes (4yo also had buttered toast)

Lunch, at a cafe with my mum - cheese and ham toastie (4yo gave said ham to 1yo), cucumber, tomatoes, red pepper and 4yo had chips too

Afternoon snack (of sorts, while in the supermarket!) - 4yo sour cream and chive mini rice cakes
1yo prune pouch and a couple of the rice cakes

They shared a couple of leftover sausages from a bbq yesterday while I was cooking then tea was a sort of creamy rice ‘casserole’ of sorts, with chicken, broccoli etc. They absolutely loved it, then 4yo had a mini m&s pannacotta (fancy pants 😂) 1yo had a yoghurt

2.5 year old
Wake up - satsuma x 2
Breakfast - crumpet with peanut butter & blueberries
Lunch - Tuna and cheese panini (ate about two thirds) and a few crisps.
Snack (4pm) - yoghurt and water melon
Dinner (6.30pm) - Salmon fillet (all) potato wedges (some) peas (all)
Cup of milk before bed

DS3 - no idea as he’s been at my mums most of the day.
DS7 - breakfast - brioche and strawberry’s.
snack- cherrys and a white kit kat
Lunch - cheese and salad sandwich, orange and pack of crisps.
snack - ice cream
Dinner - we had a bbq. Think he had steak and chicken wings

DS12 - breakfast - boiled eggs and toast
lunch - 2 chilli sausage rolls
snack - cookie and ice cream
dinner - steak, smash burger, chicken wings
(Was a bad day for fruit and veg for him)

Not that bad … my 10 year old pretty much eats this, probably smaller portions!

3 YO and 6 YO.

approx. 50 ice lollies and very little else.

it’s 28 degrees and we are all clinging on for dear life ✌️

11 year old -

Toast with chocolate spread
Tuna, cucumber and red pepper wrap
Banana
1/4 quiche with peas, broccoli, carrots and new potatoes
Rhubarb crumble and custard

9 year old -
same apart from honey on toast and wrap was ham and cheese with cucumber

Been out for the day so took a packed lunch. 10 and 8 year old:

Breakfast - both had shreddies
Snack - 10 Yr old had a packet of belvita breakfast biscuits
Lunch- 8 year old - tuna sandwich, wotsits, apple, banana, ginger nut biscuit.
10 Yr old - cheese and carrot sandwich, hula hoops, apple, banana, ginger nut biscuit.
Snack - mango sorbet
Dinner- should've been homemade chicken, veg and lentil curry with rice but we were back late so wanted something quick and easy. Frozen battered cod (8 year old), chicken Kiev (10 year old), both with new potatoes, broccoli, corn on the cob, choc biscuit for dessert.
8 year old was then hungry and had a slice of bread with peanut butter before bed

Also have 6 and 3 year olds.

breakfast - cereal and milk
snack - 6yo had a barney bear (healthy I know!), 3yo was at nursery and didn’t tell me a straight answer on whether she ate snack or not
lunch - 6yo had a school dinner (quorn dog… but with salad she was insistent on telling me!)
3yo had a packed lunch (ham sandwich, grapes, strawberries and a packet of hula hoops)
snack - banana
tea - tomato pasta, followed by a yoghurt
“supper” - apple

So my fussy children have eaten a decent amount… taking it as a win

We're on holiday so slightly different food to normal for our 5 year old.

Breakfast - pain au choc. Apple.

Snack - choc chip brioche.

Lunch - Baguette with butter, cheese, crisps. Cherries.

Snack - mini muffin, handful of peanuts.

Tea - Cheese and tomato crepe with sausage. Olives on side. Peach. Smarties ice cream. Demanded an apricot as well but I said no!

5 year old -

Homemade banana pancake with chocolate spread

Sausage roll

Half an apple, a few blueberries

Tuna with spaghetti and grated cheese, an olive, a cherry tomato, a carrot stick.

A vanilla ice-cream cone.

Honestly I fear for the teenage years because my 4 year old and 7 month old eat me out of house and home.

breakfast
4 year old: 2 homemade banana pancakes, 2 bowl or cornflakes, toast and butter
7 month old: ready brek with blueberries and 1 banana pancake

lunch
leftover pasta bolognaise for both. 4 year old also ate mine and I had to make something else 🙃. Ice cream sandwhich after for the 4 year old.

snack
7 month old: melty stick
4 year old: 6 chocolate covered rice cakes, grapes, strawberries, raspberries and 2 bananas

dinner
lentil Dahl and Nan bread for both

Supper
4 year old: 3 crackers and butter, a whole orange, chocolate buttons, blueberries and 2 glasses of milk.

We call time on food and hour before bed and he tells us he is hungry at least 10 times during that hour.

7 month old also still breastfeeds 3-4 times a day.

I have spoke to multiple health professionals about the fact my 4 year old can’t be filled, they just laugh at me because he’s so thin. To be fair he sleeps all night so he can’t actually be that hungry still.

5 year old dd (ds in nursery so gets his meals there).
Breakfast - porridge with raspberries
Lunch - smoked salmon sandwiches with cucumber sticks followed by yoghurt and mango slices
Dinner - Noodle stir fry with stir fry veg and chicken, followed by jelly
Snacks - ice lolly, strawberry and banana smoothie (homemade), melon, bread sticks

Fairly typical menu for us when it’s not a school day.

11 and 9 year old, vegetarian. We are on holiday and walking/swimming all day so more treats than usual.

Breakfast- fried mushroom, courgette, onion and pepper in olive oil with salt and pepper. Scrambled egg. Hash brown. Baked beans Half a piece of white bread toast and half a piece of wholemeal toast (as requested) 9 year old just ate the fried veg and some beans, refused everything else even toast, looked at eggs as if they were literal excrement.

Picnic Lunch- 11 year old didn't want a sandwich. Ate leftover butternut squash, canellini bean, tomato, red onion, coriander salad. Piece of cherry cake. Crisps. Grapes. Extra mini tomatoes. 9 year old didn't eat the salad but had a coleslaw and lettuce sandwich instead. Yes, just coleslaw and lettuce. On crap white bread.

Snacks ice cream. 2 Oreos. Banana for 11 year old, apple for 9 year old. 9 year old also didn't eat the cone on the ice cream (nice waffle cone too crunchy apparently)

Dinner- chick pea vegetable stew. Rice. Full fat Greek yoghurt. 9 year old refused rice.

Cocoa and 2 Oreos for pudding.

Older kid isn't fussy, is slim and runs around all day/does a lot of sport but we don't usually have this much sugar!! Younger seems to hate most carbs apart from mashed potato, chips or flatbread, is skinny as a rake and very tall, especially hates toast and calls it "hard bread"