Typical day's food...?

[ScouseBird8364]

I have a 6 & 3 year old. 6 year old is the fussiest eater, whereas 3 year old would eat anything and everything!

What I'm wondering, is what would your typical day of food consist of, for those of you with little ones of similar ages? I've started to question myself lately, wondering whether or not I feed them enough in a day

Does nobody feed their kids ?!?

Anyone? I'm genuinely asking for help here?

Mine are 3 and 4. Yesterday they ate ( same each):

Breakfast about 10am - banana and blueberry pancakes, apple juice ( in cafe)

Lunch 2pm - grilled marinated chicken, salad ( avocado, cucumber, tomato, spinach,olives, feta)

5pm - ice cream in cone out in park

Dinner 7:30pm - lamb meatballs in pitta bread with houmous and grated carrots . Fruit salad ( kiwi, blueberry, melon)

All average portions for age I suppose. Ie lunch was 1/2 chicken breast each, dinner was 1/2 pitta bread, 2 homemade meatballs of medium / large size. Salad about their fist size.

mine are big now but cereal then sandwiches/ cold bits if not school lunch and a simple cooked tea just as we do now- I cook ahead so it's pasta with home made sauce ( with the veggies blasted to bits in the food processor before adding meat and tomatoes when the were smaller so we didn't get the " this looks like vegetable matter I will pick it out" thing)... or chilli or baked potatoes and beans etc ( sometimes I roast a chicken and it does a couple of days )...

And there are a couple of "fridge surprise" days a week when tea will be egg based, or cheese based or... well everything in the fridge!

Saturday mine had
Cheerios
99
few haribo
1/2 mini pork pie, slice of toast with pate, salad (mixed lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes)
Scone with jam and cream
Apple
Quorn hotdogs, pasta, peas

Yesterday
toast and nutella
a Jaffa cake
blueberries
a mini fab
Chicken and black bean chimichanga, salad(lettuce, tomato, cucumber), half packet of s&v crisps
a Satsuma
Roast beef, potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, broccoli, carrots, peas, gravy

Today
Shreddies
Fruit at breaktime (whatever school gives them)
Half a pitta bread, slice of ham, slice of cheddar, cucumber (1.5 inch chunk), 3 cherry tomatoes, blueberries, petit filous (have given up giving them bigger packed lunches as it never gets eaten)
They'll probably ask for a yoghurt or lolly after school
Chicken skewer (5/6 biggish chunks of chicken each), pilau rice, spinach.

I feel like there is normally more veg and less sugar but maybe the truth is in the writing down... . I use side plates for their meals and they have that full but not heaped.

yesterday my 3.5yr old had:-

breakfast - scrambled eggs on toast and cherry tomatoes

snack:- a bit of pancake left over from yesterday

lunch:- prawn bagel with tomato, cucumber, red pepper sticks

tea- beef stifado and pasta with broccoli. Chocolate biscuit she made on Friday for pudding and a satsuma.

Breakfast - 1 and a half large pancakes with lemon and sugar, orange juice
Lunch - peanut butter sandwich (2 slices of bread, minus crusts), 1 slice of apple, 1 chunk of cucumber, a rice cake (likes to have some of what baby brother is having!), a load of fresh peas.
Snack - biscuit and warm milk
Dinner - breaded chicken (1/2 adult portion), 1 new potato, 4 sugarsnap peas, tablespoon of sweetcorn, small bowl of melon, small yogurt.
She's 3.3.impressed by all the 3year olds here eating avocado and spinach, dd won't touch anything like that. She would live on chocolate biscuits and hula hoops given half a chance.

DTs, 3 in a couple of weeks had:

Porridge, the stuff that comes in sachets, about 3/4 of one

A Slice of toast and marmite

Half a large tortilla, humous, cucumber, cherry toms

Roast chicken (half a breast each-ish), asparagus, green beans, fresh peas

Bowl of strawberries

10 jelly beans

Today was a good day food wise, somedays they will eat a quarter of that.

Ds 4, Dd 1.5. They eat the same. Dd often finishes ds'!

Breakfast
Porridge (adult portion)
Small bowl of cereal
strawberries
glass of milk

Snack
They shared an apple and a banana
a few rice cakes
water

Lunch
a load of carrots
scrambled egg
A yoghurt
blueberries
water

Snack
Ds a mini milk ice cream
Dd some dried banana
water

Dinner
A load of broccoli (I serve veg as a 'starter'. Consequently, they are hungry and eat loads.)
Tuna pasta bake (small adult's portion)
Yoghurt
strawberries .

Milk before bed.

Ds is as skinny as a rake. Dd normal baby weight. And yet the amount they eat!!

At that age they can eat what you eat, just a bit less maybe.

So just give them what you would normally eat at breakfast lunch and dinner. I always let mine eat as much as they like during meal times.easy.

3 meals a day and maybe an occasional snack, though UK mums seem to be feeding their kids a non stop stream of carrot sticks, raisins and petit filous rather than proper food at meal times. (indignant, lol)

Today DS2 had:
Breakfast- yoghurt
Snack- fruit
Lunch- Ham wrap
Dinner- Salmon, mash, carrots and broccoli.
Snacks- Mini fab, grapes, raisins.

These posts have reassured me actually, in the sense that I am feeding them enough! Typical day would be:
BFAST - cereal with or without milk
SNACK - tangerine or strawberries
LUNCH - sandwich with cucumber cubes, or cheese cubes
SNACK - 2 or 3 biscuits
DINNER - whatever we have, or mini roast dinner, or something like fish fingers, cucumber chips and spaghetti hoops
NTIME SNACK - milk and biscuits, or milk and fruit