What does your child eat?

[macwoozy]

I've been looking at a thread on what a typcial 8 year old would eat, and it makes me worry about my ds's awful diet.

Today he had:-

Breakfast - Slimfast(I know it's high in sugar but he refuses to eat in the morning, so at least I know that a few nutrients are going into his body.

Lunch - (He has packed lunch as he'll just turn his nose up to school dinners)

• A few bites of a bread roll(no butter or filling)

-Flapjack -Orange juice Sometimes he won't eat any lunch at all.

After school - Half a chicken sandwich

Dinner - Bowl of plain pasta and slimfast.

I've tried the hard approach but it doesn't work.

Sometimes he will eat even less. No chance of fruit. He usually drinks loads of milk. He loves sponges.

Is this a typial diet for your chlld?

Hello, I've just joined mumsnet and have been reading through the messages on eating habits. This has been a real thorn in my side with my son, who's 13. He was fine till about age four, then the drawbridge went up and now he lives on bread, cheese and milk (seems like everyone loves milk!). He won't touch a vegetable, has a banana once in a while, no other fruit. He was on Paediasure (a build up vitamin drink for children)up till about age 10, when he started to put on too much weight. Despite the diet, he's remarkably healthy - loads of good energy and strength, never gets colds or bugs. Although he won't eat a lot of good foods, he also refuses a lot of junk food (fizzy, fastfoods,etc) and never eats meat (we're all vegetarian). So that's us. It's good to read we're not the only ones!

My ds is NT and is also a terrible eater. He started to improve when he started Nursery school last September but it's all gone out the window again.

I think he's eaten breakfast two or 3 times in the last couple of weeks (when I say breakfast I mean anything from one mouthful of toast to almost a whole piece)

What is it with this addiction to milk?