Hi, I have a 6 year old daughter who is over the 100% centile on the chart for height and weight. Her height and weight do match up, but she has a tendency to put on weight if we're not careful. She has a big appetite, so we're trying to keep her food as healthy as pos. She also suffers from long term constipation and doesn't dring enough.
I've had a think about all the things she will eat and have come up with this menu for each week. She is quite limmited as to what she'll eat, but does this sound o.k?
Breakfasts
Branflakes with 1 teaspoon of sugar (she won't eat it without)
Cheerios
yogart and fruit
Shreaded wheet (with sugar)
1 piece of peanut butter on wholemeal toast and apple
scrabmbled egg on 1 piece of wholemeal toast.
snack at 11am (only if she asks for it)
a piece of fruit or a ski yogart.
dry roasted mixed seeds with a splash of soy sauce.
lunches
cheese sandwich with low fat spread and light cheese and some fruit or carrot and cucuber sticks.
prawn and pasta salad, small wholewheet pasta with light mayo, chopped carrot, cucumber, peppers and sweetcorn and prawns.
beens on toast
breadsticks and homous with fruit and yogart.
vedgetable soup (home made) with carrots, sweet potato, parsnips, leeks onions and cabbage. With wholmeal bread and low fat butter.
Chicken wraps with chicken dippers, light mayo and chopped tomato, cucumber and peppers.
Dinners
wholemeal pasta with tomatos and onions and herbs or dolmio sause, with cheese.
Roast chicken with roast vedge and gravey. (She doesn't like potato)
Spagetti bolognaise with quarn mince.
Chicken and rice with choice of sauce.
That's all I can think of that she'll eat. Is it too limmited? She'll eat every variety of fruit, but is more fussy with vedge. That's why she'll get the soup once or twice a week as it's just pure vedge but she doesn't mind because she can't see it.
If you have any suggestions that we could try, or healthy replacements, that would be great. I'm not a brilliant cook, but I'm learning. 