What has your 8/9 year old eaten today?

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My DS nearly 9yo has eaten:

Breakfast: 1 Roll with butter

Snack: Two small satsumas

Lunch: 1 Roll with Ham, about 1 cup salad (peppers, carrots, cucumber), 1 nectarine, 1 pot of yoghurt

Snack: pot of yoghurt, glass of fruit juice

Tea: Risotto (about 40 g rice plus approx 200g courgette, onion, peas and mushroom, 20g parmesan cheese), small bowl of cherries.

drinks water only

I am asking because I think he is overweight (just looking at him, need to get a battery for the scale!). My hypothesis is that he is eating fine but needs to exercise more he is a lazy bugger but it is really hard to find a definitive guide on these things.

He is tall for his age - 145cm

Is that genuinely what he eats? Are you sure you're not leaving out crisps, chocolate, biscuits etc? Because if his diet really is that good I wouldn't expect him to be overweight

His diet sounds fine. If he's looking a bit chubby then maybe suggest that you and him start exercising together or as a family. Going swimming, bike rides, see if he's interested in joining any sports teams. He might just have a slow metabolism.

My nine year and very skinny DD has eaten far more than that today. She would be moaning that she was hungry if that was all she has had. If that really is all he's eaten and it is representative of a typical day then I don't think he is consuming too many calories.

My DS is 8.7. Today he's eaten:

Breakfast - bowl of cereal with semi skimmed milk
Lunch at school - chicken and potatoes, flapjack
Snack - a few haribo sweets and a mint cornetto
Supper - pasta with pesto, yoghurt, fruit puree

I last weighed and measured him a couple of months ago, he was 140cm then and weighed 4st 8lb. He's v skinny. He is very active though (football, tennis, swimming, cubs).

Ds 8

Breakfast: Weetabix and milk

Lunch: Ham sandwich, small choc muffin, yoghurt, cucumber, Melon.

After school: Ice lolly and chocolate.

Tea: Pasta, chicken, carrots, sweetcorn and brocolli (full plate) with garlic bread
Strawberries.

He is now sat eating icecream.

He is about 140 cm tall and tin ribs skinny.

9 year old DS: he is 142cm high, weighs 63kg.
Breakfast -2 weetabix
School - breakfast bar
Lunch- cheese and bean pasty, half an egg custard and yogurt
Fruit smoothie
Tea time- beef casserole with onions, mushrooms, potatoes, butter beans, peas, bread and butter, strawberries and choc mousse,
Supper-scone, milk, handful of peanuts.

9 year old dd has had the following today.

Breakfast: ready brek style cereal with full fat milk (cold)

Lunch: cheddar cheese & pickle sandwiched between 4 cream crackers.

Dinner: fish pie followed by greek yoghurt & honey

Snacks: apple, muesli bar, 2 custard creams, cucumber.

She is average height but skinny.

InSpace - genuinely, this is what he eats during the week, most days! On the weekend, there will be treats / pizza / lasagne and sometimes at afterschool club he'll have a biscuit. But I have to watch him - if we had biscuits, crisps even cereal bars in the house I he would eat them even if he wasn't hungry. Btw the rolls are big bap sized ones.

When he last stepped on a scale a few months ago, he was 45kg, which makes him very overweight according to NHS BMI calculator.

looking at everyone else's DO's daily intake, his food intake seems to be fine. What I thought but wanted to make sure I wasn't kidding myself.

yes more activity is definitely needed. his motor just runs a lot slower than most children!

Ds's diet is not the be in terms of variety and nutrition. He is skinny, weighs 27kg and is about 130cm tall.

Breakfast: cereal with semi skimmed milk.

Lunch: Orange juice, pepperami, quarter of a sausage roll.

Tea: fish fingers.

Snacks (all after tea as he has played football tonight): Apple, muffin, chocolate mousse, another pepperami, 2 crumpets with marg, more Orange juice.

The thing is, he wouldn't be overweight on the diet you've described, even if he didn't get much exercise. If he has a big appetite, he must be packing the calories in somewhere. You prob just need to keep an eye on what he's eating elsewhere and at home

Mine had 2 weetabix and semi skimmed milk topped with a sliced small banana, glass of orange juice for breakfast.

School lunch: Caribbean fried fish with rice and vegetables, fruit salad for pudding.

Then he went to an after school swimming gala and swam in 4 races.

Was given a bag of Walkers plain crisps afterwards by the organisers.

Snack - 2 plums!

Dinner - spinach & ricotta pasta with home made tomato sauce and parmesan. Mango, papaya and passion fruit yogurt to follow.

A bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes
Turkey mince and rice in a tomato sauce, with peas and onions
Ham, cheese, crackers and mixed salad
A large coconut macaroon mid morning

He's short, and a normal weight for his height.

My DS (9 and a half) is small for his age (approx 132cm and very light - about 3 stone 11). He has eaten today:

2 bowls rice crispies for breakfast
Tuna and cucumber sandwich on brown bread, banana, frube and cereal bar for lunch.
Yoghurt coated cereal bar after school.
Beaded chicken breast, new potatoes and baked beans for tea, followed by a strawberry cornetto and then bowl of kiwi fruit/strawberries.
Then was hungry later so had a brioche and then bread and butter.
He is very active, we spent 45 minutes after school at the park playing football with friends and then road his bike after tea.
Drinks very weak ribena.

rode his bike, not road!

DS is 8.6 and very tall. Well built (broad shoulders etc) but not overweight (can see ribs). He has had a lot more:
breakfast - strawberries, a kiwi, yoghurt, cheerios
snack - 2 pancakes with butter and tub of grapes
lunch - 1 and a half rolls with tuna, mayo and corn, tub of plum tomatoes and bag of oddities
snack - a bun and 1 orange
dinner - large portion spag bol and bowl salad
milk
Loads of exercise though. (Football, bike and swingball)
But they are all different aren't they. DD would eat similar, maybe slightly less food but more chocolate! and she is so skinny.

cptart- did you mean 63 kg or was that a typo?

No he's 4stone 12lb. Don't know where 63kg came from!!

Yesterday, my 8yo with weight proportionate to height ate:

Breakfast:
Slice of fruit bread (unbuttered)
Slice of peanut butter toast
Full fat fruit yoghurt
Fried egg

Lunch:
Ham sandwich - 2 slices of ham, 2 thick slices of brown seedy bread, well buttered
Mini soreen loaf

After school:
Packet of crisps

Dinner:
100g salmon fillet (baked)
Half his weight in oven chips.

Plus, probably, a load of breadsticks and crackers at school, as he gets them when he does his PECS exercises (he has ASD). He only drinks water.

He did put on a bit of weight, earlier this year, when he went back into his buggy because he wasn't able to walk to school and back safely, without distress. He's back walking again and the weight has come back off, again. He's pretty active for a lot of the day, anyhow, but this one bit of exercise (2km round trip) seemed to make all the difference.

Phew!

Ds is 7.6 and 133cm tall.

Today

Cheerios and banana
Crisps and mini haribo (don't know if he ate it but know he was given it as a treat at school party)
1/2 cheese baguette
Few cherry tomatoes
2 plain biscuits
Chicken breast, potatoes
Yogurt (small)

Activity wise he's played football at lunch and break, had an hours karate class and played outside for 1.5 hours.

He isn't skinny but isn't overweight.

Ds is 8 and is 140cm, very broad but no fat on him. He's had

Cornflakes
A cereal bar
Peanut butter sandwich
Apple
Packet of snack biscuits
Tube of yoghurt
Mini baby bell
Handful of sweets
Packet of crisps
Beef burger with brown roll and crudités
Couple of cream crackers
Squash and milk to drink

He's very active - he swam after school today, is going to do climbing tomorrow, will have kids clubs at the gym Thursday and then swimming and tennis Friday. He's doing a kids triathlon on Sunday.