How much does your 3.5 year old eat?

[lancslass17]

Today's a nursery day
Weetabix for breakfast
I assume a morning snack
Lunch beef casserole then a pudding
Pancake and yoghurt for tea ( 3.30ish)
When he gets home he says he's hungry has eaten:
Ham sandwich (thin) with tomatoes and a babybel
An apple
A pear
A biscuit

Is he eating too much?

It depends on portion size. Is he a healthy weight?

Yes he's just above 50th centile,

Do you send a he food into nursery as in my experience private nursery portions are minuscule.

*sorry typos there

Our 4 year old eats similar to the above until 3.30, but then when he comes home he would have a hot dinner too - macaroni / roast chicken / jacket potato etc with fruit and a yoghurt for pudding. I don’t think that’s too much food at all. Our kids are lean - they are very active though.

That’s what mine eats. Mine is slim and active (50%ile).
Weetabix at home
Another cereal at nursery
Lunch (warm food)
Snack (fruit/crackers/cheese)
Tea (spaghetti/fish fingers/soup)
Dinner at home: varies from cheese/crackers/deli meat to full pasta bowl
Fruit/yogurt/biscuit for desert, with milk

Mine loves to eat!

Hard to judge as you have no idea of portion sizes or how much he has eaten.

Is that just one weetabix? Was it with milk, if so how much?

My slight 2yr old eats similar at nursery but will come home and have a roast chicken dinner- full thigh, roasties, stuffing, veg etc plus yogurt and fruit if offered. He might have one dry weetabix or 3 with a pint of milk on some mornings.

Kids are good at regulating themselves as long as you are offering a healthy variety I wouldn't worry about amounts.

My 3 year old:

Breakfast: cinnamon roll 🙈

Snack: 2x babybel

Lunch: ham sandwich and a banana

Afternoon snack: a KitKat and a 1/2 cream egg 🙈

Supper: jacket potato with tuna mayo and peas and corn

Pudding: strawberries and the other half of her cream egg.

She's very petite and tracking just below the 25th percentile.

@lancslass17

Today's a nursery day Weetabix for breakfast I assume a morning snack Lunch beef casserole then a pudding Pancake and yoghurt for tea ( 3.30ish) When he gets home he says he's hungry has eaten: Ham sandwich (thin) with tomatoes and a babybel An apple A pear A biscuit

Is he eating too much?

I think this is absolutely fine OP! Definitely not "too much". All healthy stuff 👏🏼

Mine at that age used to eat

Pre nursery snack of milk and buttered malt loaf, maybe a banana or satsuma, and/or a biscuit or two.
Cereal x2 at nursery (usually 1.5 weetabix + another 1.5 weetabix)
Snack at nursery : cracker and fruit or similar.
Cooked meal and pudding at nursery (small sizes).
Afternoon snack : cracker and fruit or similar.
Tea at nursery : wrap or sandwich, veg sticks or fruit.
At pick up one bread sandwich with ham /cheese/tuna or similar, a yogurt or fruit pouch, a couple of snack cheeses
Dinner (at home) : small portion of whatever family having eg. Fish pie and broccoli, pasta Bolognese with grated cheese, chicken fajita. Sometimes just a cup of milk instead and maybe fruit/toast.

It was endless! Meal or snack every 2 hours

When my DC was a similar age she’d have

Nursery
Cereal/porridge
Hot meal (roast chicken, carbonara, mac n cheese etc)
Beans on toast/sandwich/salad

Then when she got home she’d have some dried fruit,
And a small hot meal (bolognese, jacket potato, curry, chicken pie etc) and some fruit

She was always 30th centile but was in ballet and gymnastics from a young age

Mine today (vs 1yo):
Weetabix and strawberries - 3 bites (v a bowl and a half)
1/4 slice toast with pb (vs the other 3/4)
Most of a banana and berry smoothie (vs smoothie same size)

2 bites scrambled eggs (vs full portion of scrambled eggs and beans plus the 3 year olds ample leftovers)
A bag of quavers because I was worried she might starve to death

Snacks throughout the day - a bite out of 3 separate apples (1 year old and I finished them)
About half a bag of oreo bites that she helped herself to out of the teenagers bag

Tea - air (vs 2 full baby portions of spaghetti bolognese with dough balls and garlic butter)

Please god say she grows out of it because she has my nerves in shreds!

Oh she was born 50th centile but now just under 25th. Hv doesn't seem worried so hoping just a phase, other kids all eat fine!