Does anyone else have a permanently hungry 8 year old?

[BoneChina]

Just wondering if, seriously, am feeding DC enough each day - as seems permanently hungry.

Examples:

Breakfast: porridge, an apple, fromage frais, apple juice
Lunch : school meal - homemade sausage rolls, Potatoes and vegetables. Peaches and cream (least said .........
After school: snack - fruit and small cheese sandwich
Dinner - chicken, vegetables and mash. Water. Grapes. Yoghurt.

Before bedtime snack - baby bell cheeses and breadsticks

Half an hour after lights out - "Muuuuuummmmm - I'm hungry!"

Tonight's dinner is lamb hotpot and pancakes.

I think you're giving him plenty.

My 6yr old is always hungry and eats very well. It amazes me that he is so skinny, although he is v tall and in age 9 trousers for length!

I sometimes give him porridge for supper to fill him up.
I know school dinners can be on the small side also from what he's told me.

DS8 is always complaining he's hungry. Between meals I try to fob him off with a large mug of milk or hot chocolate, sometimes works and sometimes not. He is tall and active.

Yes my DS has gone from not being bothered about whether he eats or not to having the appetite of a horse! Just noticed he's suddenly put on a huge growth spurt though and gone up 2 shoe sizes so that quite possibly explains it! He's also very skinny so have no fears he's overeating.

Getting v expensive though - the cost of feeding the family is becoming ridiculous

You're obviously feeding your DS a very good and healthy diet OP - I reckon he's growing

I have 3 DS
Suggestion - extend your mortgage as it's going to get expensive - or get a card to a cash and carry where you can buy in bulk.
Seriously though, (although I was being serious about the expense ) I have found myself making sure that they have extra portions of carbs such as rice and porridge - just to keep them full. Better that than get into the fats and sugars!

My 10 year old DD is ALWAYS hungry! It's driving me to distraction

Yes, I have one too! She is 7 and doesn't eat quite as much as the OP's child, but has almost adult portions of main meals now. She's very tall at 4'3", but at just under 4 stone I think she can continue to chomp away...

My DS is just like yours...he eats a phenomenal amount and is unbelievably skinny. A typical day would be:

Porridge, toast/ yoghurt, hot chocolate/ tea
Fruit for snack
Sandwich, dried fruit, satsuma, homemade cake, pot of nuts, yoghurt, bit of cheese
Snack (more fruit, breadsticks etc)
Pasta with homemade sauce & peas, spinach (2 or 3 helpings), biscuit, fruit
Supper (cake, rice cakes)

He costs a fortune to feed and all his friend's parents comment on how much he puts away when he goes to their homes for tea

My DS is 10 and eating huge amounts, he needs it. I'm upping the carbs, bigger portions, given up on school dinner as its too small and providing larger packed lunch instead, tried and failed to get child minder to give him more at tea time and now feed him huge quantities of weetabix / sandwiches / full fat yogurt / milk / in the evenings to Make up for it. He'll happily eat 4 weetabix, a huge bowl of yogurt and fruit and a sandwich for supper. And snacks tend to be scones, potato cakes, malt loaf, fruit buns, etc as fruit just doesn't fill him up.

I have one too.
He now has bigger portions than me at meals and still never seems to be full!

yes DD1 is nearly 9 and always looking for food.

one thing i would say about your ds's diet is there isn't much protein until dinner time. i would add an egg at breakfast if you can. it's made a big difference to dd who was nearly collapsing by lunchtime with hunger.