how much does your toddler eat??

onlyroz

My 5-year-old lives on fresh air, and eats like an anorexic sparrow. My 2-year-old will eat anything put in-front of her. They both have bags of energy and I think both are fairly normal.

freda

My DD is nearly 4 and hardly eats anything! On a typical day, she will have:

Breakfast - 5 table spoons porrige and 1/2 slice toast and butter. Drink of milk.

Snack - couple of slices of fruit and biscuit

Lunch - 1/2 slice bread and cheese as sandwich, with fruit / salad. Hm fairy cake for pud.

Snack - biscuit

Tea - slice of meat, 1/2 small potato, 1/4 carrot, 1 broccolli floret. Yoghurt or stewed fruit and custard. Jaffa cake.


My 2.5 year old eats about the same. DD (nearly 4) is pretty tiny, but rarely says she is hungry. I'm not worried though as she still has plenty of energy and the paediatrician has checked her out and says she is just a little thing naturally.

sock-knitter

elf06 wrote: »

Thanks for your reply - I really am not bothered about his diet/weight. I was interested in how much other kids of a similar age ate. I cant seem to feed him enough :rotfl:its costing me a fortune. I am glad he isnt a fussy eater though as I am not sure how I'd cope with that and I am very grateful he loves his fruit but it isnt have costing me a fortune :rotfl:

my boys ate mlike your lad when they were younger, now at aged 15, they eat massive amounts, and its very expensive:eek:
both my lads(twins) are over 6 foot tall, one is slim, and the other is underweight:eek: and no matter how much he eats, he never gains anyweight, both are very active tho

balletshoes

elf06 wrote: »

I was lying in bed last night unable to sleep and for some reason my mind wandered to my DS (4) diet in particular just how much he eats :rotfl:. He has always had a good appetite (sp) and is in no way overweight but he eats an awful lot . I am not concerned about his eating and I know he's probably just burning it off but it did make me wonder how much other people's children eat.

Yesterday for example he had a bowl of cerea, an apple and a drink of juice for breakfast, followed a couple of hours later ( at a friends house) of some crisps :eek: a small packet of har1b0 and a bottle of juice. Then for lunch he had a sandwich and some raw carrot and asked for another sandwich. Mid afternoon he had a pear then for dinner he had 3 (yes 3) bowls of spag bol and a slice of HM garlic bread (I dont mean big portions but still.................) and a drink of apple juice then 3 cheesey biscuits for supper. The snacks in the morning are not typical but a treat as he given then by a friend but the quantity of food IS typical.

As I said I know he isnt overweight and I am not concerned but was curious how it compared to other 4 year olds.

My DD has never had a big appetite, she's 9 now and still doesn't eat loads. My niece is a year older and has always eaten like a horse - but both do regular exercise outside of school and neither of them are overweight.

If your son needs that much food to fuel his body, its fine .

dizzyblonde82

My DS has just turned 5 and some days he will only have fruit/toast and on other days it feels like you are feeding a garbage disposal unit that never fills up :rotfl:

I decided that he knows when he his hungry so I no longer force the issue of making him eat something when he is not hungry or not letting him eat if he says he is hungry.

khague

my dd is almost 3 and lives on meat and fruit mainly, she wont eat veg and some days eats hardly anything just nibbles then other days she will eat everything in sight except veg! THen my ds is 18 months and eats about 5 times the amount of his sister and will eat anything, he has to have something if we do but both are normal weight but both are tall and healthy. Strange enough its also my son that gets all the coughs and colds and my daughter rarely gets anything?

Shelley84

My DS (5) eats soooo much!!

For breakfast he has 2 yogurts (petit filous size), bowl of honeyloops or 1 weetabix, sometimes he has a slice of toast too
For a snack he has a banana and some little cocktail sausages. At school he has milk and a banana.
For lunch either a whole sandwich with kids crisps and kids cereal bar or whole tin of soup with bread and butter or whole bowl of pasta with sauce and grated cheese. School packed lunch is half a sandwich, kids crisps, kids cereal bar, little sausages, a smoothie, a cheesestring and water.
Afternoon snack is either a banana or whatever is leftover from his lunchbox
Dinner is whatever I'm having. He usually eats it all (though has to be bribed to eat veg!) Pizza, spag bol, stew, chicken and rice etc..

All I get is 'mummy im hungry'!! I think he's going through a growth spurt at the moment though :-)

Pisces

Our son is just over two and eats loads - for breakfast he has two Weetabix, a banana and very often asks for Shreddies too, and that's just at the start of the day! Like you, I'm not worried about his weight, he's tall like his dad and doesn't sit still at any point during the day, but it feels like most days he eats more than I do !

pupsicola

My son is 5 and has a massive appetite. Something I am so thankfull for. He was seriously ill when he was born and had to have medicine by mouth. He also had severe allergies.

Till he was 3 1/2 he wouldn't touch solids. Had to have him on a special high calorie nutrtious milk prescribed by his paediatrician.

The only thing he doesn't and cant touch now is fish. To see him tuck into his 3 meals a day and healthy snacks is wonderfull.

I think little boys just have masses of energy and consume loads to fuel themselves.

Furny

My Son whos five & normal weight ate today -

Breakfast- Bowl of shreddies & apple plus Glass of 100% Applejuice.
School Snack- Ceralbar & an orange.
Lunch- 1 Ham Sandwich, 1 small Yoghurt, raisens & Pkt of Skip crisps.
After school Snack- 2 small Yoghurts & Fruitbar- Glass of 100% apple Juice.
Dinner- Pasta Salad which had-Pasta,sweetcorn,peas,1 egg & tuna.
1 small vanilla ice cream in a cone.
Supper-Breadsticks, rice cakes & a cup of warm milk.

:eek:- Gosh its quite daunting when you write it out like that, it looks lots well I suppose it is really its like having another adult in our house how much he can eat, he has always had a really good appetite.
My son especially seems be eating lots at the moment and putting his uniform on after the holidays we noticed his trousers look shorter :rotfl:so he's going through a growth spurt which explains it & everyone recently has been commenting he's getting taller.
I noticed when he started school in September he started eating more too, lots of the other mums at school say the same about theres but as long as he's healthy i'm happy as the DH says I'd be worried if he wasn't eating!:)