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

do you think protein in the morning would help? my dtwins will snack all morning after ricecrispies but ask for nothing after eggbread - same goes for lunch as tuna or ham seems to stave off hunger more than philly!

sadly i equate the constant grazing days with boredom
steer their minds on to some all consuming activity they will stop begging for snacks...does sound a lot
i fill them up with whole whaet or oat breakfast cereals then lunch - afternoon snack of fruit then supper

4yo DD is forever asking for food! She is not in the slightest overweight and it isn't from boredom either. She's always on the go and guess she just needs it at the moment. I don't always let her have something to eat whenever she asks though - although fruit bowl is normally open whenever unless close to a meal time.

I read these posts with envy

DD is 3.5 and nulnulcat - what you have written for your dd is equal too, or even possibly more than my dd eats in a week!

Yet she has boundless energy and never seems bothered by food.

DS2 is 4.5 and driving me nuts with this just now. On Thursday night just before bed he said "Muuuum, what's for lunch tomorrow?" arrrrrgh!!! DS1 was like this too but it did calm down.

luckylady, that is a very good point about protein, i may try that. only thing is, dd1 loves eggs, but if she eats the yolk she geta terrible rash on he face. same with mayonnaise. she gets the white, but theres no protein in that is there? might try some other form of protein tho (what??)

mercy, im not sure what you mean by conventional

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Hi Nailpolish

By conventional I meant a set pattern or time of eating, rather than having a snack every hour or so. Once children are at school, they have to follow a routine of (for example)

breakfast
mid-morning snack
lunch
after school snack
dinner

thanks mercy, thats waht i thought!

i do try to have set mealtimes, we have all our meals round the table, and the girls eat most of everything on their plates, i do agree it will be different when at full time school

Ah nailpolish, this sounds so familiar. My ds (5) wakes up with the words I want to eat NOW. When I pick him up from school or come home from work I do not get greeted by the words: 'Hello mama', but with the words 'I'm hungry, what can I eat/have you got food with you'. Oh how I would long to just hear the words 'Hello mama, I had a good/bad day at school'
The day you started this thread my ds had eaten about 1/2 of a family size steak pie, 1 whole potato, 1 serving of carots, 1 serving of brocolli followed by a biscuit. Half an hour later: I'm hungry, what can I eat.