How much "junk" food does your child eat?

[Adriana87]

Had a debate with my other half whether the amount of junk food our 3 year old eats was excessive. When not in nursery, his typical meal will consist of: porridge for breakfast, chicken nuggets and chips or a cheese sandwich for lunch and something relatively healthy (pasta potato, rice etc.) for dinner.

However, on a daily basis he's having, at least, a pack of wotsits, 5 or so jaffa cakes and Ritz crackers. I've suggested that we limit the snacks to just one item as he doesn't eat them out of hunger (nor does he complain of it's not there) and implement more fruits into his diet to be fair, the only fruit he will eat is a banana but still think replacing all those snacks with a banana, plus one of the snacks actually, is a much better option.

Do the snacks above literally every day, sound excessive?

That would be way too much for me. Mine are 4,7&8 and have some popcorn if we watch a film, homemade baking if we’ve done any, maybe 1 bag of crisps a month we don’t usually think of them. Chocolate if there is a party or grandma has sent some.

Otherwise fruit, yoghurt, oat bars, cucumber/carrot, nuts (they LOVE nuts). Definitely make some changes.