Can I take time out from RL to briefly torment myself by asking - how much, and what, does your 7 year old dd eat?

[Enid]

as mine eats...very little and she loves crap. Eg we all eat porridge (oaty) and she refuses - eats coco pops. We all eat a roast dinner and she refuses to eat the meat. We all eat proper cheese and she will only eat cheesestrings. It is as if she is so scared of texture in food she just wants the most processed, bland shite instead.

And I know I know I shouldnt buy it...but she is very thin so I do give in, but am about to gather strength and crack down.

Am really interested to hear about other 7 eyar olds daily diets.

Oh and how do I make mumsnet look how it did before?

yes I could do the fish thing

she likes sardines

Yesterday dd who is 7, ate;
Breakfast - wholemeal toast with honey, glass of milk
School dinner - hot dog roll (can't remember what veg were served)
Snack after school - watercress soup, wholemeal bread, apple juice
Tea - chicken curry (with onions, tomatoes, lentils), rice, naan bread, mango chutney. Ice cream, tinned fruit cocktail. Orange squash.

She really enjoys helping with the cooking, and tends to eat more if he has helped.

She is fussy in some respects.Has stopped eating porridge and weetabix. I've given in and bought coco pops but she cannot have them every day. She has a choice of Alpen, yoghurts, toast.
She will only eat raw carrots not cooked.
She's being faddy about fresh fruit at moment so I have stocked up on tinned mandarins and fruit salad.

We don't eat meat, but do eat fish.

My ds 7 will eat a hearty breakfast - weetabix, bran flakes, often a bagel too with butter or G and B's choc spread.

Lunch - sandwiches at school usually (bane of my life as he likes just two fillings), fruit smoothie, some fruit (grapes, strawbs, mango or melon - won't eat apples, bananas, satsumas only rarely...) chopped carrot (often eaten after school) and home made cake. At weekend we have soup - again he will eat a v limited range (there are 3 I make that he will eat).

After school snack - piece of toast/ bagel, more cut up fruit, drink of milk, sometimes hot chocolate.

Supper
Loves anything pasta -y - Mac cheese, spag bol, that pasta filled with spinach and ricotta with a tomato sauce, pasta with spinach creme fraiche and salmon.
Pizza although moans if home made. Picks at rissotto and moans about onion in it. Will eat lentilly stews on sufferance. Likes almost anything if I put in a wrap with cheese and sour cream on it.

He would have baked potato with beans anc cheese every night if he could.

His veg intake is really limited too - brocolli, carrot, parsnips, peas, sweetcorn. Offer him salad and he runs in horror.

It's funny because I am back here today after a long break and a half term of trying to get him to try new things - feel incredibly frustated but writing it down it looks better than I think. DD eats a much wider range of things.

ok i have reread all thses postings and realised actually she DOES eat quite healthily and I need to STOP buying the crap (which i started as I crushed my hand in the car and couldnt cook for a while) and be a bit stricter. and not so worried about her diet being limited. I guess the same food each week wont kill her.

Are you still concerned about her weight? The problem is that she eats a great diet for an adult isn't it? But not so much of the good fats and protein to help her grow.

My 6 nearly 7 year old has:

Breakfast: porridge with banana, flaxseeds, dried apricots and soymilk.
S: Fruit such as an apple of melon chopped up. And maybe some pumpkin seeds.
L: Sandwich or pasta/quinoa with spinach, some kind of tofu/nut butter/hummus.
Raw veggies such as carrots, cucumber, cherry toms.
A treat like some piece of chocolate or a homemade cake/biscuit.

S: A soya yoghurt or a piece of toast
D: Whatever I am making. Usually something based on beans and grains, with various vegetable sides.

Later either some fruit or a few crackers.

They eat alot...

DS1 is only 5 but I am starting to tear my hair out with him.

He normally has a bowl of cereal for breakfast - usually weetabix or porridge and normally does quite well.

It is the rest of the day that is driving me mad.

He has always been a poor eater at lunchtime. He takes sandwiches - usually cheese or tuna mayo. Just 2 squares, a piece of fruit - usually an apple. One of those small bite flapjack pieces. And chopped up cucumber.

The last 2 days, all but the cucumber has come back.

At dinner time, he has developed a habit of pushing his food to one side of his plate and declaring that he has eaten half. Dinner time is a battle ground. Driving me mad. He has occasions in the last 6 months when he has cleared his plate (so rare that I have taken a photo!!!) but he usually leaves at least half. He begins every meal with 'Argh I hate this' to which I reply ;Then don't eat it' and it starts from there.
Any tips for me?

actually shrooms I think my dd1 would like that diet

it scares me however

ds will normally have a bowl of cereal(usually shreddies) followed by a slice of toadt and a glass of milk for breakfast.

he has a fruit/ceral bar or a bag of raisins or something like that for mid morning snack.

lunch is usually a sandwich, with some some chopped up cucumber/tomatoes, maybe a yoghurt, a piece of fruit and a drink of juice.

after school he will normally eat anything left in his lunchbox, a piece of fruit, a lice of toast or whatever is on offer.

dinner is something like spag bol, or chicken and baked spud and veg.and then pudding.

he is very tall and very thin.some days i feel like i can't fill him, others he's more fussy.

breakfast - cereal or porridge or scrambled eggs or kippers. Plus plain yogurt with fruit and juice.

school snack - bit of fruit

packed lunch - 1 sandwich (1 slice bread) or pasta or similar. Fruit or veg. Bit of cheese or cake.

Typical sized tea would be about 1/3 - 2/3 my size meal unless its pasta in which case she would eat her own weight in pasta.

Her appetite really varies. Sometimes she hardly eats anything and sometimes she has adult portions. I completely go with the flow and always have done. I believe in letting kids learn to listen to their bodies and eat accordingly. Of course i have only 1 dd so its not much of a sample to go on!

Breakfast: 2 weetabix + apple juice

Lunch (packed lunch at school): sandwich (one round of bread), usually with cream cheese + ham/marmite/cucumber; Little Moos cheese stick (or a piece of cheese if I forget to buy Little Moos!); fruit + either cereal bar or yogurt.

Tea: Will eat pretty much anything now but isn't desperately keen on meat (unless it comes in the shape of a sausage!). Pasta is a favourite. We eat a LOT of pasta!

I do sympathise though, Enid. My dd was just like yours till a couple of years ago. She has gradually improved over the last few years until she is (in my view) pretty much 'normal' (). But till she was 3 she had a very limited diet (yogurt, cheese, buns and frankfurters [bleurgh]) and she has gradually improved from there to where we are now. I didn't do anything in particular to make the change, but I did stop worrying about it too much (as opposed to age 0-3 when I made every bloody mealtime into a melodrama) and just gradually introduce new things over a period of time.

Good luck