SCREAM!!! does anyone else have children who want to eat eat eat eat eat eat eat all day long?

[nailpolish]

ok as an example today

breakfast - one bowl of rice crispies and whole milk
i slice of toast and butter
i cup of juice (diluting lemon)

930 - another bowl of rice crispies with milk
another cup of juice

1100 - 2 apples and 2 clementines (altho dd2 didnt really eat apples, more nibbled and discarded)

lunch - 1/2 a haddock in breadcrumbs and about 6 baby potatoes each

1pm - 3 oat cookies and a cup of juice

2pm - strawberry yoghurt

is this normal? it seems to be in this house

for tea at 6pm they will be having pork stir fry with noodles and a drink

at supper they have half a banana with milk to drink

dd1 is like a rake (shes 4)

dd2 is chubby but shes only 2

i just would like some comparisons? ta

I think if I had more than one child I would adopt a shut kitchen policy alhtough to be honestas I don;t eat a lot and neither does dp it is nice to see someone enjoying their food.

but cod

they eat their meals

Yes, dd eats her meals and has always been a good eater and we operate a no junk house, she is the same when she goes elsewhere.

god they will sit and eat a whole raw carrot or half a cucumber

i am very happy with their diet, its just the volume

:-\

Dd2 so far today has had:

bowl of chocolate weetabix
packet of milk buttons
apple
1 whole cucumber
4 carrots (raw)
pot noodle
ommlette
packet of hoola hoops
1/2 packet of quavers (nephew had other half)
and has just had a screaming fit because dh wouldn't give her any crisps but she didi end up with another carrot.

Tea time in 1 hour and she will have 2 bowls of lasagne as that is her favourite and she always has seconds of that.

by the way she is 3 in april.

tegan you are brave!

my dd is just 4 and is tall and slim and I keep telling her I do not run a cafe because she seems to want another meal every half hour. and always wants puddings too. Costs a fortune!

ok we have just had a screaming match because she went into the fridge and helped herself to blueberries

a whole punnet

what is wrong with this child?

SCREAM

sometimes i think they eat cos they are bored

anyone else?

mine eat and eat and eat

but they are not allowed (in general) snacks after 4pm (because of tea) and similarly, an hour before lunch

other than that, they will eat a whole meal, have a huge pudding and about 5 minutes later will start asking what else they can eat (aaarghhh)

I agree though - they definitely eat more when they are bored. If we are out and about, they have to be snacked up but will generally go for longer periods without food.

DD1 is 12 and drives me round the bend with continual looking for food. At least she asks for it, I suppose, but she is always asking for one thing after another. I buy very few treats, but she is a heat-seeking missile where they are concerned. They are usually gone a day after I have done the shop. I try to keep her habits under control, but she has got a tummy through unsupervised snacking and it's getting bigger. It is so hard to monitor her all the time. I think she has worms (for the last 3 or 4 years)

Nailpolish, I don't know if your dd1 is at full-time school yet but I found it helped my dd to eat in a more 'conventional' way, even though she is very hungry afer school. Before that she was a 5 mini meals a day child which imo is quite normal.

Anyway for the record, after school she ate

2 rice cakes
1 bag of hula-hoops
1 mini bag of chocolate buttons

rice, chickpea curry, mushroom curry and raita

1 apple
1 banana
small piece of ds' birthday cake

and will probably have a cup of warm milk and honey soon as she has a dry cough and a sore throat.

Oh, I so completely sympathise ...

Haven't read other posts but I am sure I was at the back of the Maternal Instincts queue when they were handing out "Natural Wish to Feed People All the Time"

I threw a wobbly at DS the other day and told him that if he had his way I would be stuck in the kitchen all day and all night making delectable snacks for him and I would never have a life. He may as well make up a camp bed in there for me! He laughed and told me I was loopy

I do hate it though ... but on school days it is easier.

my dd is a pig and eats all day, especially crap if she can get hold of it(grandma's and dads!)

she is 6 and quite chubby, i can't get clothes to fit her. i mainly just let her eat fruit in between meals, but she goes to her dads on a weekend, and drinks coke and eats takeaway all weekend.

she eats more than me.

personally i think its because she's bored, don't know about all your children though

What really used to piss me off, was wanting cooked snacks.

Butties were OK, but oh no,that was too easy only anything, toasted, heated, scrambled cooked or microwaved would do. It used to drive me bananas!

My 3.10 year old dd is like this from the minute she's finished her breakfast she's demanding more food this carries on until lunch we have a slight reprieve till around 3 ish then she'll have something else, then dinner then more food then milk then bed. I wouldn't mind but she always asks me for things the minute i've sat down when i've just been in the kitchen it's as though she waits. I do think she has a fast matabolism and she's never ever still and very active and very thin.

Mine biggest eater is the lightest compared to her height - weight 40th centile, height 98th - just think it's all that growing she does. They don't even get to snack on junk - a custard cream biscuit for pudding is considered exciting in our house, as is a yoghurt and pears instead of apples!

woke up this morning and helped herself to a couple of bananas

breakfast 3 bowls of cereal and a yoghurt (8ish)

930 2 slices of toast with chocolate spread

11 pile of grapes and babybel

1230 huge bowl of soup with bread small tin of peaches with custard then the rest of tin of custard

130 chocolate bar

3 breadsticks

430 another bowl of cereal

500 two big helpings of chicken potato bake with veg and big slice of cheescake and some of mine to

630 large tin of rice pudding

730 after insisting she was hungry another bowl of cereal

she is only 3!! never stops bouncing around the house running around etc.

tried to refuse her demands for more food yesterday she went to the fridge and helped herself to most of the roast chicken that was in there! am always finding cheese with huge bites out of it but i dont think the mice are responsible.

please will someone tell me she will grow out of this constant eating! she has always had a very good appetite but its getting ridiculous!

she is also tiny! as a baby she often dropped off the charts and at 3 she is only just in aged 2 clothes. honestly dont know where all the food goes!

Thank the lordy I'm not the only one driven mad by this constant asking for food. Dd1 is 5 and can hear people mention the word 'snack' from about 5 miles away. She's tall for her age and slim, so I can see why she needs as lot of fuel, but really.... I do think some of it is down to boredom sometimes, but she does have a complete love of all food as well. At parties it's a standing joke that she's first at the table and last to leave. She loves veggies and fruit and the food she hoovers down is 90% very good for her. She's not even that fidgety or energetic though. She's lively enough but she's certainly not one of these kids who needs to run off a lot of energy, so I don't know where she puts it.

I do worry sometimes that if I stop her from eating when she says she's hungry she'll get an obsession with food. We're quite health-conscious with food in our house and don't buy or eat any processed food; sweets are a rarity but we do make cakes sometimes and we eat chocolate maybe once a week. I'm overweight but with a good body image and I consciously try not to say anything derogatory about myself or others' bodies in front of her. It is a worry trying to strike a good balance though, esp when I wonder how on earth she can be as hungry as she says she is most of the time!

yes my dd especially eats alot but I think partly is bordom in some respects. I don't mind if she eats a lot of fruit and it's better than chocolate bars but she does like crisps she has one or two bags aday sometimes none. or yogurts. She eats me out of house and home.lol. Sausage rolls are like gold dust here, lol.

Fantastic.. just spotted this thread after I started my own.

Mine is nearly 4 and I've had to keep a food diary as we are due a visit to the dietican to check his calcium levels are ok (as he seems to have a slight sensitivity to dairy)

I only give snacks if he eats well at each set meal otherwise I think he'd be tempted to eat less at lunch and hold out till snack.
As he loves food he does eat well in general.
Opened diary and the day falls to:

Breakfast: Pineapple chunks in juice
(breakfast is always the hardest time for him to be interested in eating)

Lunch: B.L.T Starbucks multigrain sandwich (all of)
One rocky (road biscuit thing)

Snack: 8x dried apricots, 1x satsuma

Tea: Pasta with mushrooms, peas and bakkwa (meat chinese) chopped up
(ate bar about a dessert spoonful)
Jelly (one individual/portion mould)
One kiwi

Drinks: squash and pint of Adez throughout the day.

As with moomin, ours is not overweight, and he does tend to devour healthier items (though I do allow cakes,sweets in moderation) Am feeling better that I'm not the only one SHOCKED by what a child can pack away!!!

dd 2.10 DS 5.1

both have at least 2 bowls of cereal for breakfast .. followed immediatlly with .. i'm hungry what can i eat noooooooowwwww ?

They always eat there 3 meals plus have endless (mainly) healthy snacks, i do let them have one big treat after DS's school if they've both been good (usually icecream or a small chocolate bar)

DD will also eat blueberries by the punnet !

Nail polish your DC's sound exactly like mine .. DS is really skinny but tall and runs around like a loon all day DD Just losing her toddler tum

I timed them once .. they ran round in a circle for 48 mins non stop (at least they wern't eating at the time

My supermarket shop is getting stupid. i seem to run out of fruit within 3 days (despite getting literally bags of the stuff)

hth

I am starving is my DS's motto!
I can never fill them up.
I run out of food all the time.They are costing me a fortune.