What do your 4 year olds eat?

[Zombiemama]

My daughter age 4 is quite a fussy eater. She used to be great with food but from she started nursery isn't so keen.

She will absolutely try something new no problem but generally doesn't like it.

Breakfast is generally cereal with fruit or toast & yogurt

Mid morning snack is in school

Lunch would be a sandwich or wrap with fruit cheese and some form of kids crisps or bar ( Ella's kitchen or equivalent)

For evening dinner she asks for chicken nuggets and chips every damn evening. Obviously doesn't get this every time but here is where she is most fussy.

What does a typical day for your 4 year old look like in terms of breakfast lunch dinner and snack?

My dd is nearly 4

Breakfast - wheatabix at 7am, a sausage and some fruit at 8am.

A snack in nursery and her lunch box - olives, chopped pepper, grapes or blueberries, a yoghurt, some salami and quavers (she hates sandwiches and wraps)

When she gets home at 3 she'll finish off her lunch box and have a banana

If dinner she's still hungry before dinner she'll have an apple

Dinner - anything . Loves pasta, her favourite dinner is sausage with Mashed carrot and swede, peas and Yorkshire pudding. She'll eat pies, curries, fish fingers

Supper - wheatabix or toast

Dinner is easy but only since October. Last summer she was so fussy and hardly eating any dinner. She ate a lot of fish fingers for a while or just had wheatabix

Huntaway she seems like a great wee eater. DD wouldn't entertain olives or pepper at all

DD is almost 4. A typical day would be:

Breakfast - bowl of cereal, usually shreddies/cornflakes/porridge or weetabix.
Lunch - Tuna sandwich, handful of grapes/blueberries, yogurt. Or pasta salad, babybel cheese and piece of malt loaf.
Dinner - Anything really, last night we had sausages, sweet potato mash, steamed carrots and brocolli, night before was spaghetti bolognese.

She'll usually have a snack or 2 during the day, might be a fruit yoyo, apple, orange etc and occassionally chocolate!

Breakfast - cornflakes, coco pops, toast or fruit.
Snack - fruit, crackers or smoothie. (On occasion milkshake)
Lunch - sandwich, toast, wrap, ect with yogurt or rice pudding.
Snack - fruit or crackers.
Dinner - plain pasta, rice and chicken (has to be wings or legs), chicken nuggets and chips, cheese burger without lettuce and tomato, hotdog with mustard and ketchup, tuna mayo pasta, pizza, soup and bread, beans and toast (hates potato)
If still hungry later he gets fruit

DS is 3.5

Breakfast - 2 weetabix plus milk
Morning snack - crackers or cheese stick or apple or banana or something like that. 3 days a week he gets a snack at nursery which I think is crackers, fruit and juice.
Lunch - either a hot nursery meal or at home he usually has a ham and cream cheese wrap, carrot sticks, cucumber and some crisps (prob quavers) and then either fruit, yoghurt (whole milk plain), custard pot or a biscuit etc for pudding

Dinner - this is the most difficult. He is becoming less fussy and will mostly try new things. He’s not a fan of stuff mixed together but will eat the separate components so pasta with the bolognaise on the side for him to mix it, rice with the chicken and peas separate. It’s a bit annoying but at least he eats it instead of flat refusing. He also loves the standard beige stuff like nuggets, fish fingers, kids pizza etc

DS 4. Breakfast 2 or 3 weetabix.
Snack at school mid morning, cookie or fruit.
School lunch, hot meal, could be anything from fish to spaghetti to curry to roast chicken...
Snack at school mid afternoon, cookie or fruit
Sinner is depending on much but avocado on toast with tombstones and a poached egg is the favourite right now.

Poached salmon and cucumber sticks and tomatoes are a close second.

Or anything with gravy!

If we’re eating out it’s the usual kids menu stuff, puzza, burger, but he’s gone off fries for some reason.

Dinner not sinner obvs 😁

Let’s try that again 😂

Sinner is depending on much but avocado on toast with tombstones and a poached egg is the

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Dinner is depending on lunch but avocado on toast with tomatoes and a poached egg is the...

Next time you’re in a nice place to eat, take a pic of the menu. Gives you loads of ideas and my boy will eat anything out of the house, give it take the odd carrot, so if I produce the same dishes he is happy!