Do you give supper?

[gscrym]

I was wondering if I should introduce this for DS (4). His day is as follows.

Breakfast - Toast with butter or cereal. Fruit juice as well.

Lunch - Chicken breast steaks, sausages or fish fingers with chips or waffles. Fruit juice and fromage frais.

Tea - Sandwiches. Fruit juice and yogurt or ice cream.

He has snacks (bread and butter or a biscuit). I sneak vegetables juice in by juicing a carrot or cucumber and putting it in his juice bottleas he can't see into it. He doesn't have milk at night or morning so was wondering about having another yogurt or some more toast. Sometimes he asks for something to eat at bedtime.

Have you tried a more substantial evening meal, containing potatoes/rice/pasta? Then maybe a sandwich before bed.

Think at 4 he might be ready for something more substantial at tea time. Does he like mashed potato? You could do him sausages & mash if he does - adding carrot or sweet potato to increase his veg

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I would but he is a horribly fussy eater. It's taken us this long to get him to eat what he does at the moment. Toast and butter has only been a recent development. I'll start making him a hot dinner at night as well. I'm also getting him to try a new thing once a week. Last week was cheese and that was a big no-no. I'll try mash again.

To be fair to gscrym, he does already have a hot meal once a day, just not in the evening.

gscrym-my ds has two hot meals a day ,it may help tide him over until breakfast.

Or a plate of wedges cooked in the oven?

I try to give my ds a hot meal each evening ie, containing potatoes/ric/pasta and he still asks for something else before bed..

I thought perhaps he was just seeing how long he could stay up for so now he has his tea/dinner at 5pm and either cereal/toast or toast with egg for supper.

I'm licky that DS is only 15 months and not got to that fussy stage yet. You could try having a little hot snack yourself about his bed time and make a big fuss of how lovely it is and would he like a little try?

I always make sure he has a hot meal, even if it is something that isn't ideal. I have persisted with the healthy option but he won't do it. So I make sure what he eats is as healthy as possible (wholemeal bread, chicken breast steaks, low salt things, sausages from butchers).

I'll try him with mash or rice to see how that goes.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

That should be lucky of course

My DD is 4.5 and only has one hot meal a day. She is a pasta/rice refusnik which makes life a little more challenging. A typical day looks like this

Breakfast - She is a big breakfast lover. She will usually have a bowl of shreddies followed by a weetabix or a slice or 2 of toast.

Lunch - She is at a school which does not have a kitchen and therefore hot meals are not an option. Her lunchbox generally consists of a brown/granary bread sandwich, a fromage frais, a bigger piece of fruit (apple, banana or satsuma), a small handful of grapes and a few small cubes of cheese, a carton of organic apple juice. Sometimes I make my own little pasties and freeze them in batches for lunchboxes.

Tea/Dinner - A hot meal.
Sausages, mash and beans.
Homemade (and then frozen) fish pie.
Homemade (and then frozen) pastry pies with carrots and/or corn on the cob.
Chicken breasts with honey and grainy mustard, new pots and corn on the cob (she loves corn on the cob)
Chicken breasts with boursin, spuds and veg
Salmon fillet with pesto, spuds and veg
Fresh cod loin wrapped in parma ham (ponce alert) with roasted baby potatoes, carrots and parsnips

Chicken breasts are so versatile, they freeze well, defrost overnight and only take 25 mins to cook.