Three year old always hungry!

[Bobbo1989]

Hi all,

DS turned 3 last month. He has had quite a jump in height and is ALWAYS on the go. Since then, he’s constantly demanding food, becoming very stressed when I try to make him wait for dinner. He eats the majority of his meals. So far he has breakfast at 8:30, snack at 10, lunch at 11:30 inc something like sandwich or pinwheels, crisps and fruit. Does have a nap still then when wakes has a snack at about 3:30 - either another piece of fruit or some veg sticks. Then dinner between 5:30-6. But now he’s so hungry ALL the time, I’ve been adding in cheese slices as a snack, even more veg sticks etc, and he’s still stressing about how hungry he is.

Is this normal?? I always knew boys were bottomless pits but 🙈

If DS has cereal for breakfast he's ravenous all day, try porridge, eggs, overnight oats is good it's what he's having this morning -a whole mashed banana, with nut butter, oats, milk (you can use non dairy to suit his allergy), today he has stewed apples and pears with cinnamon with it (MIL has fruit trees I batch cook it) and because he's bottom end BMI top end height centiles and struggles to keep weight on (very active and has his father's fast metabolism) he also has double cream on top. Compare that to a bowl of rice Krispies which would you be hungrier after?

God. A carrot and cucumber for a snack in all that time for a growing child? They're basically calorie free! He needs something filling! Jesus Christ. Do you have food issues?

Definitely a lot more protein and fats. Porridge with banana and peanut butter, chicken sandwiches, tomato pasta with a drizzle of olive or avocado oil, meat and potatoes with peas, chopped up jacket potato with tuna or egg, spag. bol.