Should you "feed up" a skinny child?

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My dd1 is 4 - she is skinny and off the growth and height charts (off the bottom end )

She doesn't really EAT much. We all sit down for three meals a day and she is offered what we are all having but she doesn't like most foods and basically lives on bread and water.

Should I try to "feed her up" a bit? Or should I just leave her to decide what she wants to eat?

She really won't eat anything like that Tinker. Granary and white bread only on the flour-related-food front.

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lol actually she WAS given a sample food pack of some cookie-shaped breakfast cereal which she ate a few months ago... Maybe I should buy it?!

Rice pudding? Custard?

Fio - I don't care how much sugar is in the breakfast cereals - Whatever it takes IMHO - cookie crisp, cocopops, cheerios all have about the same amount of sugar in them

I give ds1 loads of cream cheese, ice cream etc. I also make things like quiche/omelette/egg custard tart which I add double cream to. I make him fruit smoothies with cream/yoghurt in them too.

But he's still as thin as a pencil.

we found "double choc chip cookie crisp in Florida a couple of weeks ago - it was so sweet that the dses wouldn't eat it

hehe Tinker no she won't touch stuff like that

OK today's she ate:

breakfast: small bowl of dry cornflakes
piece of granary toast with butter

snack: piece of which toast with butter and scraping of jam (has to be REALLY thin or she won't touch it)

lunch: mashed potato, big spoonful baked beans, big spoonful grated cheese

dinner: 2 sausages, mashed potato, big spoonful baked beans
Three chocolate coins

That's pretty average

WHITE toast, not which toast

Oh. Well, cheese is good.

dd id pretty thin but generally eats quite well, ds is chubby and his appetite/diet is appalling.

Oily fish, chips, bread and butter, full-fat or semi-skimmed milk, home-made burgers, roast potatoes cooked in goose-fat or lard, cheese omelettes etc PLUS plenty of fruit and veg (if poss) and loads of carbohydrates. Floradix is a good vit/herbal supplement, can help with appetite too (after beign ill)

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yes, she will only drink water

she won't drink anything else, so I don't think I could get any vitamin drinks etc. into her

she just refuse most foods ... hot chocolate is really the only thing I can think of giving her

Sorry, posts crossed. That sounds pretty normal tbh.

Well MP thats a hell of a lot more than my ds eats!! Now i'm really worried he isn't eating enough.

dont give her crap like cookie crisp (sorry fio )

do you get plenty of butter in the mash?

I try and make every mouthful count with dd1 so everything is HEALTHY but fattening

I make pancakes for breakfast and she does eat porridge with maple syrup

she loves roast dinners so I make them A LOT

would she eat: roasties,croissants, fruit - I know not fattening but she doesnt eat enough fruit and veg IMO

really?

She doesn't vary it though... it's pretty much the same every day - and no fruit or proper veg

MP - re hot chocolate. When DH really wants to treat himself, he makes hot chocolate with milk in the microwave and adds a huge spoonful of chocolate spread. It's quite nice, makes it extra chocolately, might add a few calories if she doesnt notice you make it?

nah she doesn't like pastries like croissants - we do have stuff like that

I don't tend to make the mash with butter because DH can't eat butter and TWO pans with mash in would kill DH who washes it all up....

with roasties she always says "ooh mummy they are full of mash!" and just scoops out the potato from INSIDE the roastie

she also sucks the "mash" out from the inside of chips

she even takes the skin of sausages

she is a bit obsessive

OFF sausages

tell you what, this thread is making ME drool

Roasties with lard, croissants, cheesy omelettes... MMMMMMMMMMM

it's so frustrating that she doesn't see sense

especially with me and the baby troughing away all day