Ds eating full on adult meal

[Crazymumse]

ds stayed with my mother in law for a whole week and I found out she took him out everyday and he ate full adult meals from the adult menu and he had no problem finishing it. She didn’t force him to finish it but he just ate all of it followed by water or a juice.
The portion I offer at home is no where near that portion. I don’t know if I should be worried or ignore it or adjust the portion.
Can fluctuation in such portion cause any damage to his stomach.
He is diary free child and very slim.
Example of meals: He had a whole adult burger with chips followed by 200ml fruitshoot

How old is he?

Well it does kind of depend on if he is 2 or 17.

Sorry forgot to add the age He is 6.5 years old.

My son had stopped eating from the children's menu at nearly 7. I stopped school dinners, in the end because the portion sizes weren't enough for him and he was coming home from school hungry. Make his portion size slightly bigger, and see if he eats it? If he does, then all good, if he doesn't then go back to the size you were giving him. My son isn't a greedy child, so if he couldn't eat the amount on his plate he would say, he has never stuffed his face unnecessarily. Equally if he's still hungry he will also say!

DS ate like that at that age. It was fine.

He began to look a little chunky around age 11 but then shot up to six feet and is now a slim/normal 18 year old.

Different portion sizes won't damage his stomach. It's like you having a full three course meal in a restaurant one day and just a boiled egg and toast the next.
It also doesn't mean that every meal needs to be as big from now on!
Appetites fluctuate and if you let him eat intuitively his intake should vary according to what his body needs following previous smells/activity/in preparation for growth etc

Just be careful, my DS could eat adult meals by age 6, he became overweight and was always hungry and people tell you, it’s just baby fat and he’ll loose it, but in my DS’s case he put himself on a diet at 16. If I had that time again, I wouldn’t be giving adult size portions just because they can eat it.

I remember eating prawn cocktail, roast chicken and chips and chocolate fudge cake and ice cream in a sitting when I was 8. 7 year olds need about 1600 calories a day.

Adult portions eating out are often huge and even too big for most adults. I'm sure he ate it because it was tasty and a treat but it doesn't necessarily mean he needs to eat like that every day. We always let our kids ask for more if they were still hungry at meal times but ds only really started eating more once at secondary school and puberty was kicking in.