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If you have a very skinny child do you encourage 5 a day or just encourage to eat??

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VA1983 · 20/09/2016 20:13

My dd is so skinny and so fussy at eating. She is 6 years old and belongs to a sports club, ballet lessons and swimming lessons so is quite active. She would happily live on carbs and nothing else. I have been trying to encourage her to eat her 5 a day but now she eats even less! She has also never eaten much of the family meals I make. My mum thinks I should just feed her what she will eat, eg chicken nuggets and chips, toast, biscuits etc. Just so that she is eating a reasonable amount. I am not so sure. What do other people do? Watch their Dc eat next to nothing of a nutritious family meal or give them food where they will eat the whole plate such as chicken nuggets and chips and baked beans? The same with snacks, if I offer fruit she will go without, if I offer her a biscuit she will eat her snack? I want her to be healthy but I worry as she hardly wants to eat any healthy food and I hate seeing her go without.

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MammouthTask · 21/09/2016 13:47

She isn't underweight and its nit all fur children that age to be skinny.

However, vegetables are essential fur her to grow well. They will also be essential as a teenager and as an adult and there is no way she will eat them when she us 15yo or 30yo if she is told that being fussy is ok and has never touched a vegetable when she was young.

Her diet is quite poor tbh. Lots of sugar and lots of carbs and not a lot else.

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