10 year old DD always hungry

[Losingmymind85]

DD will not stop eating.
Today she has had:
Porridge with fruit
Mini brioche bun
Ham and cheese sandwich, a peach, a plum, some carrot sticks and a yogurt
An ice cream when at the park
A burger with cheese, oven chips and peas. Adult serving..
A packet on mini cheddars
An egg white omelette with cheese and ham. Adult serving.
An apple and blueberries and a fromage frais.
And she went to bed saying she was hungry.
I'm really struggling with the constant whining for sweet stuff. I try to do everything in moderation, but she would eat sweets and sugar foods all day, every day if I didn't control it. It's already much more sugar than I would like but getting vegetables in her is a daily battle.
It's been like this for two months now. Yesterday she had three Weetabix with a banana, a mid morning fruit salad, three full sandwiches for lunch with veg, rice cakes and peanut butter and a banana during the afternoon, a huge dinner of sausage pasta , an ice cream then in the two hours between dinner and bed she ate a ham wrap, babybel, bowl of popcorn and a punnet of strawberries.
Is this normal? I sort of hoped that it was a growth spurt but it's never come.
We've started to plan our meals and snacks to try and make her more mindful about her eating but it's like there is no off switch.

@Losingmymind85 not too unusual it seems.

https://www.parentscanada.com/school/is-it-normal-for-tween-appetites-to-be-insatiable/

I have a very small sample size to go on, but I similarly have a child with a huge appetite - one of my children has been eating what I'd consider a normal size adult portion of pretty much everything since they were around 9. They do a lot of physical activity and are >99.6 centile height and around 91st centile weight, so have a lot of growing to do outside of growth spurts.

Our kids used to snack a lot and have biscuits, brioche, sweets, etc., but have all but stopped the snacking other than during sports sessions since we made some changes to our diet at home (and I just stopped buying the biscuits, brioche and sweets). We're trying to have nutritionally dense foods at home, with few refined carbs or ultra processed foods, and with good variety of plant fibre. Getting the plants in was initially a bit of a challenge with the kids, but some things that have worked for us without resistance is swapping oat porridge to one with mixed oats, barley, spelt, rye (this meant buying some items from health food shops, which was entirely new to me), adding more mixed nuts and seeds into their diet (we have a tub of mixed nuts, pumpkin seeds, dried raisins and cranberries which makes snacks for sports easy and is available if they really feel the need/want to snack) and often having a couple of homemade veggie soups in a week. We don't buy biscuits in the weekly shop anymore - if the kids want sugary cakes and biscuits, they have to wait for me/dad to make them some (rare), or make them themselves.

One thing we really like is having a bread machine. We gave our eldest the job of making the bread for the family so they have some choice in what to make within certain constraints that they're reasonably on board with, (or at least understand why we have them). They usually make a half wholemeal or a granary bread, and we find the bread machine loaves more filling than a lot of mass-produced breads.

I don't know OP, it sounds like me from child to present adult day... and my DC. Are some people just hungry? Have been wondering recently if it a deficiency. I am slim/borderline underweight as are DC but hadn't ever cared before when it was just me. Now DC involved I wonder if I need to actually check if it could be a possible lack of something? Zinc or similar?

Sounds like my 11yo!

How is she now @Losingmymind85 and is she growing taller by any chance?