So DH has just told me that the DCs diet today has been rubbish. I disagree what do you think?

[Virgil]

Ok so it's not exactly going to win awards for healthy day of the year but I genuinely don't think what they've eaten today is too bad.

Two Weetabix with raisins (and sugar)
Slice toast with marmite
Strawberry and banana smoothie

Lunch spaghetti bolognese which had mushrooms peppers onions, tomatoes in it as well as beef mince and some lentils and herbs
Muller fruit corner for pudding
Water to Drink

Large lemon curd cupcake at movie time (plus a lick of the bowl each)

Ham roll with crisps and grapes, another lemon cupcake and a glass of milk

It's not that bad is it?

It's a snapshot of a day though Sofia. They will no doubt have those things over a week.

For the record, my children are on holiday so I an only tell you what I have eaten. You will see I need them to come home so I can start eating properly again.

Breakfast: banana
Lunch: two homemade cheese scones. (no sugar but plenty of fat!)
Snack: Grapes
Dinner: Chicken tikka masala with Pilau rice; nectarine.
Supper (!): salted cashews, Crunchie, Dr Pepper

Honestly, it's not great. But you have to look at a diet over the course of a week not just one day.
As others have said there's a lot of sugar in there. There's also a lot of wheat. Weetabix, pasta, bread and cake.
As an alternative you could go for Oatibix or museli and grate an apple on it to jazz it up. You could add some veg to lunch. Then in the evening a ham salad with tomato, cucumber, avocado, beetroot, chickpeas, cheese. Easy and non cook.
Watch out for salt too, up to the age of 8 they shouldn't have more than one slice of ham a week.

By the moon why the actual fuck do you think that sweets don't contain carbs? What I'd this macro nutrient empty calories that you speak of?

Pickles, unfortunately, I don't think they will. Or at least enough of them.

And low-fat milk is what the pediatricians in the USA recommend for children over the age of 5. I am surprised that this is not the recommendation in the UK as well. Of course it depends on what other types of fat your child has in their diet.

Sugar is a simple carbohydrate surely? Or is all the chemistry I was taught at school a big old lie?

Low fat milk is very suitable for children and still has the calcium and vitamins in it. Far better low fat milk than rola cola.

Ds had birthday cake for breakfast. I'm not proud of it, but as a once every 6 months or so thing (I'm not going to say one-off cos that would be a lie) it's not the end of the world.

Birthday cake: flour, eggs, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder.

It is Sofia. Over I think 4/5.

You can't possibly know what the posters in this thread feed their children over a week. I think ops day wasn't so bad a d if her do terms this as a rubbish day then I would imagine its a good diet.

This thread is getting ever more ridiculous.

I think mm should only allow people to post on food/nutrition threads if they can name all the amino acids. Or describe the chemical difference between glucose and fructose. Seriously.

I've just eaten.... SAUSAGES

I have three teenagers. If someone makes a batch of buns, they will all be eaten as they come off the cooler tray. If someone bought a packet from a supermarket, they'd be chucked out in about three weeks time uneaten. Now I want buns.

The milk thing is a language difference. In the UK we talk about full fat, semi skimmed and skimmed milk, and switch children to semi-skimmed at 2 years and (sometimes, depending on weight etc) to skimmed at 5+. Not sure whether low fat US milk = skimmed or semi-skimmed.

Blimey, just looked in the fridge and amongst other things I have sausages, sliced ham, a ham joint, pancetta and bacon

Is the one slice of ham a week max for under 8's a week for real?

DD1 (19)- Fuck knows, probably shit as she was out on the piss last night. Kebab and Red Bull probs.

DD2 (18) - yogurts, diet coke, chocolate, more chocolate, more yogurts, finally eating a decent supper of steak, carrots, new potatoes and asparagus. Then chocolate. Again. I suspect it may be that time of the month for her judging by the chocolate intake.

DS (16) - He's in Majorca so probably half decent diet of seafood with a sprinkling of chips and a token piece of cucumber.

DD3 (3½) - Shreddies for breakfast with a strawberry, banana and manky blueberry smoothie. Edamame beans and cheese for lunch and corn on the cob and chicken for supper. Then chocolate with her older sister. Rather a lot I think, judging by her face.

I don't think that's bad at all for very active growing children some fat and sugar isn't going to make them obese!!

Mine(2.5 and 4.9) had
Breakfast: malted wheats with milk, a banana, some raisins and a frozen yoghurt tube, water
Snack: some breadsticks
Lunch: wholemeal toast with clover, grapes, 2 x mini sausages, 1 x mini scotch egg, cheese, cucumber sticks, another frozen yoghurt tube ( I have to ration them as they'd eat loads!!)
Snack: 1 x chocolate biscuit
Tea: low fat oven chips, meatballs, peas and gravy and a mini ice cream cone with a mini flake as a treat as they both ate their tea well
Cup of milk and loads of water throughout the day

Mine probably have too many yoghurt tubes and maybe not enough veg some days but they both love fruit, only drink water and 1 glass of milk a day and are both active - spend loads of time on the trampoline and running around so I'm happy that their diet is reasonably balanced. I think if you don't allow them the odd cake, biscuit etc they will then binge on them given the opportunity - it's all about balance - of both good and not so good stuff.

Ok I'm taking my life into my own hands here but this is what I had planned for tomorrow (before reading the comments on this thread)

Breakfast probably the same. I will cut down the sugar on the cereal though to a tiny sprinkle. So Weetabix (or maybe ready brek) slice of wholemeal toast with marmite and strawberry and banana smoothie. this is just whizzed up strawberries and banana with a bit of whole fat milk.

Lunch is Moroccan chicken so chicken, peppers, spring onions, chick peas, apricots, tomatoes, courgettes, carrot, tagine paste, cous cous, sunflower seeds.
Pudding may well be one of the dreaded lemon curd cupcakes! Drink water.

Snack probably popcorn but we do it in the microwave so nothing on it. Rest of the grapes.

Evening meal homemade pizzas so thin pizza base, tomato sauce topped with feta cheese, sweet corn, spring onions, peppers tomato slices maybe a bit of chicken and some pesto.

Pudding rhubarb and strawberry crumble to use the last of the strawberries.
Drink - blue milk (whole fat)

So I'm guessing shouldn't have two puddings and too carb heavy again?

I thought the message was now that children should drink whole fat milk and not semi skimmed.

Oh and I offered DS a slice of my lovingly prepared homemade lemon drizzle cake and he refused it!!!!

I think it sounds lovely :) Would love you to cook for us too!

Sounds good to me!

May freeze some of my fridge-full-of-pig and go for chicken tomorrow.

Struggling with ideas for lunchtime sandwich fillings, they typically only have sandwiches on the weekend and they usually involve ham.

Virgil - if your children eat peppers, apricots and chick peas then I take my hat off to you. Their diet sounds fine to me - your DH is just seeing his arse because he is on a diet and he wanted a lemon cupcake once he saw them.

I would just like to point out that me, dd and ds1 have now finished the entire tray of brownies that Dd baked today.

They were lovely.

And ds2 has a ham sandwich in his lunchbox for tomorrow.

Dd and ds1 are going ice skating tomorrow and will go to McDonald's on their way home.

I have a ham roll, and a fruit corner for my lunch at work tomorrow.

And ds1 is cooking lasagne (from scratch, my little boy is a better cook than me!) garlic bread and salad tomorrow.

I may even buy a cake and a bottle of coke on the way home.

You can shoot me now.

And it is isn't even naice ham in the sandwiches.

However, after reading this thread, I don't care. I really really don't.

My DCs eat a balanced diet, and know its not bad or even unhealthy to eat a bit of cake, and a ham roll every now and then.
They don't feel compelled to eat whole Victoria sponges on the street on their way to school like some of their friends who's parents have made it clear a bit of cake is frowned upon, so it's all good.