Fatty but healthy food for a 3 yr old, what does your 3 yr old eat?

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trying to build up my three yr old who is very skinny and snall compared to peers
worried about bullying when scholl starts and mum hints that i may not be feeding a nutrition diet .

Chances are he is fine.God, tonnes better to be wiry and agile than a butterball.Tell her to keep her snout out.

ok so what does he eat so we can understand if your mum is bieng an ass or not...

well dont shoot me
breakfast cheerios and toast and a glass of milk
lnch tuna or cheese sandwiches
dinner fish fingers and oven chips twice a week, salmon and potatoes once week, roast dinner 0 but usually he only eats the yorkshire puds

probably an apple, a couple of baby baby bel for snacks a day

I think mum hass issues as i dont cook every night

Eggs are quick and easy. Avacados and nuts are good fats. Lots of pasta and gnocci?

As moondog said, he's probably fine. My brother was, and is still, the skinniest kid at school but he couldn't eat any more than he does! He's just built that way. He's now 39 and struggles to get his weight over 9 stone - Now why didn't I get that gene???

Home made pizza, healthy but contains fat and is always a winner mine love spag bol also. I have skinny kids too I give them fish fingers but serve them with potato gratin with cream, cheese , broccoli and carrots to build them up.

Mine loves pasta - with bolognese sauce, or meatballs and tomato (and I always add extra veg) and of course Macaroni Cheese with good cheese and peas/tomatos. All have a reasonable fat content and are pretty healthy as well.

Also, Tuna, pasta bake with cheese and white sauce. Or home made burgers, or cottage pie and fish pie. All of these are easy to make in larger batches and freeze - I don't cook every night either.

Another healthy type of fat you could introduce is yoghurts or fromage frais if he does not eat them - just keep an eye on the sugar content, as that can sometimes go high.

Firstly, look at the energy levels of your ds, rather than his shape. I read recently that very very few children under 7 would be referred for hospital treatment if overweight as they are likely to 'grow out if it'. It must be the same for the healthy skinny???

I should try and introduce more fruit and veg to what you're already giving him. Make sure there are peas with the ff and chips and variety of veg with the salmon and roast. Think about a rule of 'you've got to eat one bit of everything on your plate' so he gets a taste of everything and can find out what he might like

My ds2 is quite picky and I've found that he would just as happily eat home made fish fingers (don't take too long to make and then bake in the oven with home made chips)

Try not doing yorkshire puds and find out which other bits of roast dinner he's happy to eat. You could always promise pancakes for pudding if he eats his whole dinner. then he gets the good bits and you can give him fat and sugar ( if you really want to!)

More fruit, permanently available for snacking, if he's eating well at main meals (or even if he isn't tbh).

(just noticed how late it is - to bed! Good luck)

Ask your hv for advice. I was recently given a whole bunch of useful bits of paper.

hang on

my daughter is also naturally a stick.

homemade pizza is a fav here, too.

lots of dips as snacks like guacamole, full fat Greek yoghurt cucumber dill, sour creme and chive/onion, humus, etc.

DD1 is a consummate grazer, so i keep stuff to hand for her to nibble.

i make sausage rolls and in a pinch or a picnic i do cocktail sausages wrapped in shortcrust pastry.

she also likes baby bels and full fat yoghurt and we make ice cream as well.

yoghurt, rice pudding, custard, evaporated/condensed milk on fruit.
dried fruit
miniture servings of meatballs, pizzas, pies, quiches.

grated carrot in anything you like, soup/stew/mash

cut up veg dips like houmous, cut up fruit with yoghurt dips

Milkshakes

crumpets

add butter and cheese into stuff

Offer two courses 3 times a day. And milk and snacks.

i homebake, too.

and i use butter and chocolate.

That was from hv btw.

Also Delias sausage rolls are yum and cheese straws are incredibly easy to make and very moreish.

If you dont want to cook every night then freeze batch meals, I cook dd casserole, fish pie, bolognaise, tuna bake, cooked dinners and then freeze small meals for them. It means then I havent got to worry about cooking every day but just microwave a meal for her and she is still getting homecooked foods.

You could also try milkshakes, thats what our gp suggested for ds who is losing weight.

pasta pesto diluted with full fat sour cream or creme fraiche. Cheese omelette. Fish cakes.
chop up chicken. Add yoghurt and tiny touch of curry powder. Pan Fry in butter takes minutes to prepare. Peel spud, grate coarsely squeeze excess water out heat olive oil - plenty add potato and shape with spatula to thin patty. Cook til lightly golden on each side. Rosti all my kids adore it. Carrots in butter and orange juice. Cheese sauce and green veg. Fresh tuna pan fried all mine scoff this no questions!
Homemade burgers huge variety make and freeze. And good old lasagne. Make double and freeze.

actually realised looking at op that my kids eat like frigging horses...
Organix muesli bars very good too for snack.