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!

Breakfast - oatmeal made with whole milk and peanut butter, blackberries

Snack - oat bar

Lunch - Beans on toast with cheese

Snack - Cornetto

Dinner - Tuna pasta in a tomato sauce with cheese

Hmm, no veg today at all. Whoops.

This is a typical day for my son, we eat well ensure we have a varied diet and look after ourselves. What are you feeding your kids? Also none of us are overweight.

What haven’t they eaten more like?! I have one older teen, one younger teen and a ten year old who plays three different sports. They’ve all been at home this week while DH and I have been working (I luckily work five minutes from my house so pop back regularly throughout the day).

They are like locusts. They have eaten everything. Yesterday they ate one and a half French sticks and all the cheese and ham, a whole box of mini magnums between them, used up the grapes and bananas along with a whole bag of frozen mango chunks and half a tub of peanut butter making smoothies -along with the milk. I honestly despair. I don’t know where they put it all. I have typical MN tall, slim, sporty children. Two of them are at least six foot already. This week has cost me a fortune in food. I buy four pints of milk and it’s gone in a day and a half. I’ve easily spent an extra £75-£100 if not more this half term just feeding the hungry buggers. Can’t wait for them to go back to school and college.

Breakfast was a packaged pain au chocolat. Snacked on crisps this morning. Lunch was tuna pasta, orange pepper, apple and melon. Snacked on bourbon biscuits this afternoon. Dinner was spaghetti and meatballs with loads of veg in the sauce. So snacks were a bit nutritionally shite but for two autistic kids, not bad.

I actually feel awful as I didn’t know. 15 and 17yo. Both on their own schedules. Me and DH on ours. I just asked.

Breakfast
Ds15 - Weetabix with honey and milk
ds17 - Greek yogurt and berries

lunch
they made bacon sandwiches and then chocolate digestives

dinner
apparently spaghetti carbonara (!!! Did not know they knew how to make this. Very pleased)

snacks
too much shit.

They will fend for themselves again tomorrow then I’ll be sorting on Saturday.

Mine are 8 & 13.

I’m not sure either of them ate breakfast. It was there, mostly pastries and cereal, but I was pottering around getting things done and there was no evidence anyone ate anything though they could have helped themselves.

Lunch - ham and cheese sandwiches, crisps, brownie bites

Snacks - one had some more brownies, crisps and a small packet of sweets on a walk, the other took a fruit pot and yoghurt with granola to sports practice

Dinner - we had chicken soft tacos with salad, cheese, soured cream, they probably had some fruit after

DS11 had pain au chocolate for breakfast with banana, he then realised he’d forgotten his packed lunch on the way to his holiday club so he got a Tesco meal deal consisting of plain ham sandwich, bag of fridge raiders and bottle of lucozade sport. He also went to the vending machine in the sports centre where the holiday club was and got a twix and packet of crisps. Afternoon snack was an apple, plus another trip to the vending machine for another lucozade and bag of malteasers. Tea was barbecue chicken wraps with a side of vegetable rice.

He didn’t tell me about the vending machine trips so after we got home he was allowed some crisps as a snack and then after tea he had a mini cupcake.

That’s probably the most unhealthy day he’s had in along time. He’s very active and usually eats well. His packed lunch should have been cheese and tomato pasta, carrot and pepper sticks, grapes, apple and either a packet of crisps or fun size chocolate bar. He would have also had natural yogurt and blueberries for a morning snack and then rice cakes with soft cheese on for the afternoon.

Open to the possibility that he clocked on to how late I was running this morning and forgot the packed lunch on purpose knowing I wouldn’t be able to turn back or take him and he could pop in to Tesco himself!

I swear my almost two year old DD never stops eating currently.

A usual day looks like:
Breakfast: Weetabix, fruit and honey. She then often scrounges other people's toast and porridge. She is genuinely bottomless in a morning and would eat 3 breakfasts if I allowed it.

Morning snack:
Some variant of crackers and cheese, hummus and celery, apple and peanut butter, banana, etc

Lunch:
Usually a sandwich and something like cucumber/celery/carrot, and a yoghurt. Or things like a jacket and tuna sweetcorn.

Afternoon snack: similar to morning snack, or will give her something like quavers/a little biscuit pack if the morning snack was healthy.

Tea:
Whatever we're having, her faves are chilli, spag bol, jambalaya, fish pie and curries! Today she had sausage, baby potatoes, and broccoli. Pudding is usually something like yoghurt and fruit, or a little rice pudding. She also loves ice cream and tinned peaches.

All 3 of my kids are ND (super fun times).

Won't bore you with what the 18 year old had as I guess it's less relevant.

The two toddlers had:

Crumpets and honey for breakfast
Quiche, crackers, cheese, and chicken pieces for lunch with 2 fromage frais each for after
Chicken dippers and tater tots with bbq sauce for tea with chocolate puddings for after
Snacks were Belvita breakfast biscuits and scotch pancakes
Lots of water

Before anyone comes for me saying "where's the fruit, where's the veg", they are INCREDIBLY picky and my DD in particular will physically vomit when I give her something she doesn't like.

So some days, I'm just pleased they have eaten and are full and happy.

DS 15

Cup of tea and Rich tea biscuits
Rustlers sausage muffin
White Monster at gym
Sausage chips and bread/butter from chippy
Punnet of strawberries
packet of Chips Ahoy cookies

plus whatever else he’s got in his room….

Ds 11 and 12
B- two pan au chocolate strawberries, mango and watermelon
L- hot chicken baguettes with gravy Oreo ice cream
D- roast lamb dinner
snacks fruit, Greek yogurt, frazzles, mini ice creams.

They eat a lot but also do a lot of sport.

Dd15

B- iced coffee and an açai bowl
L- nothing as she didn’t get up til 11.30 so late breakfast
D roast lamb dinner
snacks yogurt, fruit, ice lolly….. that was all I saw but possibly more.

Yeah we pick fruit only ones specifically to support absorption because his breakfast usually has some form of dairy. Worth mentioning for those that might not be aware though.

Breakfast - oats/milk and (homegrown!) strawberries.

Lunch - packed lunch as school dinners are cancelled this week.
They had brown rye bread sandwiches - 1 with cheese and ham 1 with chicken and salad. A tomato, cucumber, nuts (yes, allowed) and apple slices.

For school snacks - 10 am an orange cut op put in a box and a granola bar.

After school snack is a bun with jam.

For dinner we wil have Shepherd pie and melon.

Kids are 10 and 12.

Breakfast - 2 slice of toast with peanut butter.

Crunch and sip - cucumber and carrot sticks

Morning tea - yoghurt rice cake and banana mini muffin

Lunch - bread roll with ham, cheese, lettuce. Red apple.

Afternoon tea - cheese and crackers

Dinner - chicken and broccoli Thai style curry with rice.

Crunch and sip is an Australian primary school thing about an hour into the school day. Water only with fruit or vegetables.

Teenage boy Mum here too…just joining in for solidarity!

DS15 ate today-
Breakfast number 1-huge bowl of Greek yogurt, granola , drizzle of honey plus raspberries and blackberries
Breakfasr number 2-Two bacon/cheese bagel thins

Lunch-a foot long subway with turkey, cheese and Salad, bag of crisps and a cookie (out with his mates)

Snack-Chocolate rice cakes, dried mango, dried apricots and some tangfastics!

Tea-Sweet chilli beef stir fry (can’t begin to describe the huge portion size he polished off!)

Evening snack- Peanut Butter bagel thins and a banana

He only drinks water (weird child!) so had about 5 Yeti bottles throughout the day