What have your kids eaten today?

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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!

Some of the replies 🤣 my dc go to a private school and there was absolute uproar in the GC a few weeks back because some of us - shock - put crisps in the snack bags!! Poor little tarquín was envious he had to settle for salmon and carrot sticks 🙄

mibe have had

Breakfast: toast/cereal
Lunch: cucumber sandwich, yoghurt, strawberries, watermelon, crisp, fruit wind up, sausage roll,
snacks: chocolate bar, plain pasta (?!), various other bits of fruit
dinner: dominos

never sick, great weights, perfect teeth 🤷‍♀️

It's MN

where ALL the children have the very best and balanced diet in the world

But where mums (usually mums on here) CLAIM to be overweight themselves, or a perfectly "average size 16+" and anyone eating less than 4000 calories a day is either lying, a compulsive under-eater or fat shaming 😂

I would take a lot of posts with a very big pinch of salt

12yo, who's in good health: porridge with honey for breakfast, an orange and some melon mid-morning, a Greggs sausage roll for lunch, cucumber, apple and an ice-pop over the course of the afternoon and a thin steak with chips, salad and onion rings for dinner.

6yo, who's really under the weather and struggling to eat at all: lots of dioralyte, a Freddo as compensation for horrible aniseedy medication, and the inside of a jacket potato mashed up with ketchup (her suggestion, not mine) for dinner, and that's been all she can manage today. Poor poppet.

By comparison my 6 year old has had 850mls of neonate mixed with 200mls of dioralyte. He's tube fed over 20 hours of the day, that gives him 850 calories a day, he also has a supplement to make sure he gets the micronutrients he needs as his calorie intake is low.

8 year old:

Breakfast : Boiled egg with toast and butter with a glass of milk

Lunch: Sandwich with cream cheese and cucumbers and some grapes

Snack: Homemade smoothie with banana and frozen strawberries

Dinner : Salmon and vegetables, and 2 kiwis for dessert.

20 month old:
Cup of whole milk and half a banana. Chocolate chip breadstick
Smoothie (banana, almond milk, Green yoghurt, Raspberry kefir)
Carrot, sweet potato and leek soup, then some chicken and rice
Another cup of milk and a sweet potato waffle
Dinner was cooked pumpkin, minced beef, spoonful of rice and sauerkraut, plus 2 kumquats
Another cup of milk before bed
At least half of this was fed to the dog under the table

I think you're doing pretty well OP!

We've had a less than ideal day today with 4y.o.

Breakfast - picky plate of buttered bread, cheese, pecans, grapes, dried apple, dried apricots, multivitamin gummy. Refused the bread and most of the grapes.

Lunch - we were out so a National Trust "kiddy meal deal" of cheese sandwich, raisins, crisps, small chocolate bar (oops) and some kind of masquerading as healthy juicey water stuff..

Dinner - vegetable stir fry with egg and rice noodles. Ate about 1/3rd and picked out the egg. Not convinced she took in a lot of the veg either.
A mango ice lolly.

No snacks. I don't think she's hungry in the heat.

Nearly 2 year old.

over night oats for breakfast

snack of berries and yogurt

lunch was a Spanish chicken type thing with potato, chicken and tomatoes/peppers

shared my old school sprinkle cake

tea was popcorn chicken, rice cakes, more fruit

mini milk ice lolly

cup of milk

What do you mean by that? The majority of posts on this thread are just normal food and diets? Which are you referring to?

DD13 had a bowl of cereal for breakfast.
DS6 had banana, strawberries, blueberries and Greek yoghurt.

DD then made mini pancakes for them both mid morning.

Lunch was peanut butter on rice cakes, mini cheddars, few chunks of cheese and some grapes for DS. Dd didn’t want anything.

DS and I had a cheeky McFlurry this afternoon whilst DD was out with her friend.

Dinner was cheese and beans on toast which they requested. Pudding was ice cream

Snacks: cucumber, carrot sticks, hummus, red pepper and an ice lolly. Definitely more fruit!!

On half term so looks a bit different to our usual weekly meal plans etc…..

B:
DC1: water, 1/2 banana, whole wheat seeded sourdough toast with butter and PB
DC2, 1/4 bagel w butter, 1/2 banana

L:
Both DC: grapes, strawberries, Mandarin orange, bell pepper slices, cucumber spear,1/2 chicken thigh.
DC2 also had 1/2 croissant
DC1 had 8oz homo milk

Both have had 2 Oreo's now. We're heading out to spray park. Both will have water, especially DC2 who hasn't wanted to drink anything for some reason. Dinner will be left-over chicken with brown/wild rice mix, roasted asparagus and green beans. They'll both likely get yoghourt and berries after dinner. I've also just boiled some eggs to give them when we get home while I prepare dinner.

Mine are teens, so it’s harder to
quantify! But roughly I think:

Breakfast

Ds1/dd - no breakfast
ds2 - blueberries, pomegranate, honey, yoghurt

Lunch

Eggs on (homemade) sourdough toast with various bits to taste - guacamole, wasabi salt, furikake, cherry tomatoes. They each made their own to their taste.

Dinner

Chicken pesto pasta - made the pesto myself (standard pesto with basil, etc).

Apples with peanut butter

Not our best veg day!

Peach, burrata and pistachios? That sounds delish! How exactly was it done? Ie any dressing or seasoning? I'd like to make that. ☺️

Breakfast Granola and greek yoghurt

Lunch wrap with home cooke dham, cheese and mayo

Cucumber slices, cherry Tom's, small tub of gherkins, peperorami

School tour so small chocolate bar

Snack 4 corncakes and peanut butter

Dinner beans, sausages, toast

Breakfast Granola and greek yoghurt

Lunch wrap with home cooke dham, cheese and mayo

Cucumber slices, cherry Tom's, small tub of gherkins, peperorami

School tour so small chocolate bar

Snack 4 corncakes and peanut butter

Dinner beans, sausages, toast

14 year old ds:

"Brunch"
Bacon sandwich
Pot noodle
Whole pack of sugarsnap peas

Tea (We're northern!)
Chicken and chorizo pasta (huge portion)
2 slices of the sourdough i made this morning made into garlic bread
Half a head of broccoli

He's currently laid on the settee in the back room eating dry All Bran and raspberries

That's just what I know about. He called into town with dh so probably stung him for Greggs pasties too

Teenage boys are unfillable!

My dd has very low iron and is a fudging nightmare to feed.

Breakfast - not sure but she ate. Today we have had a day out so we had a picnic fir lunch. Hummus and carrots, fish sushi, pineapple pieces, crisps, banana, muffin, dh made dinner and i was working so didnt see it.

tomorrow is a new battle.

I actually think this is one of the most balanced food consumption threads I have ever seen on Mumsnet!

Pancakes with strawberries for breakfast

lunch - Sushi from Itsu
Starbucks frappe

dinner - Moroccan spiced lamb mince with nectarine and pomegranate

snack - vegetable crisps

I dread when DS9 is a teen! today he has had
2 large blueberry pancakes with blueberry compote and strawberries.
A plum and a satsuma.
8 cucumber maki, 3 chicken gyoza, 2 pieces of Japanese fried chicken.
A doughnut
An apple
An ice pop
A sausage roll with salad, pepper sticks and cucumber sticks.
Another ice pop.

Kids are 4 and 1

Breakfast - toast with almond butter and raspberry chia jam, cup of oat milk

Snack - yoghurt and berries

Lunch - lentil soup, bread and hummus

Snack - apple and peanut butter

Tea - chickpea, sweet potato and spinach curry with rice and coconut yoghurt

Supper - bowl of Cheerios with oat milk

I missed a smoothie that he has with his Iron tablet, the smoothie is for the vitamin C to help absorb the Iron.

That sounds pretty good - can always add an extra portion of veg/fruit.

We’re on holiday so hasn’t been too healthy.

Breakfast - Shreddies & milk, orange juice, tea
Snack - Chocolate digestive
Lunch (mid-hike) Cheese and prosciutto sandwich (white bread)
Snack - Ice Cream
Dinner - olives, tomato bruschetta. Pizza margherita with king prawns.
Another ice cream.

This is really bad as normally they have fruit at lunchtime and veg/salad at dinner. And not two ice creams!

Negated if the smoothie has dairy. jic You, or anyone, isn't aware that calcium inhibits iron absorption.

I have a teen revising for GCSEs too.
He had
Breakfast #1 (7am) banana and yoghurt
Breakfast #2 (8am) jacket potato and tuna
Lunch jacket potato and tuna
Snack mini flapjacks and banana
Dinner salmon fillet with potatoes and beans
Rhubarb crumble and yoghurt

He doesnt normally eat this many potatoes in a day! 🤣
But he always wants hot food, whatever the weather, I had salad with the salmon and wouldnt contemplate a hot breakfast in this weather!

Edited: Actually if we have roast potatoes, he can eat between 10 and 15...but potatoes at every meal isnt usual!