Alternative Suppers for Kids.

Flimber

Our 8yo seems only have chocolate or crisps for supper every night and it's bothering me. I was wondering what alternatives people have in their households. She's not really a fussy eater but given the choice she'd have chocolate for every meal, every day of the week. It's making me seriously want to ban the stuff...

Help ?

Trow

Our kids have a variety of stuff - usually things like

Toast
Cereal
Yogurt
Fruit
Crackers and cheese
Pancakes (occasionally)

And sometimes they do have junk - but not that often

madmum33

My kids used to love flapjacks. I made them with rolled oats, dessicated coconut, butter, honey and brown sugar, but can't find the recipe now

This one looks similar, but I would replace the syrup with runny honey and cook them a little longer so they're more crunchy. http://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~lowe/recreation/flapjacks.html

lil_me

Usually piece of toast and half a tumbler of warm milk with a little honey sometimes.

Chocolate has caffeine in so not the best thing for bed time (plus 45g Cadburys Chocolate has about 6 spoons of sugar in) Crisps, depends which ones they are and the salt content, might not be so bad, as long as they aren't cooked with hydrogenated fats of course.

http://jaypeeonline.net/?p=174

Interesting

Bambywamby

My son likes eggy bread.
Whisk one egg, dip a slice of bread in it, both sides of bread, then dry fry in a non stick pan, 3 minutes each side.
Gives a lovely omlette taste.

He also likes weetabx with warm milk and sliced banana.
And yoghurt with sultanas sprinkled on the top.

Crazychik

Totally agree with trow

my kids are DS age 10
DD age 7

They tend to have cereals mainly for supper,(weetabix or ready brek) & occasionally toast.

abbecer

Mine love malt loaf, lemon raisin pancakes, weetabix cake, toasted bagel as well as the usual things mentioned ie cereal toast etc.

Rebecca x

Hels_Bells_3

My dd (6) has fruit, either fresh or dried and warm milk or hot chocolate. Sometimes she convinces her nan or grandad to give her something 'heavier' but feels uncomfortable because it's not what she's used to and after her dinner there is no need for her to have anything really substantial imo.

When her friends have stayed the night they've asked for sweets etc but are usually fairly happy with the fruit they're giving because there are no sweets for them to have, it's still 'sweet' and is a lot better (and cheaper!) for them.

angeleyes

how about cumpets with either low sugar jam or wholegrain peanut butter or low fa cheese spread

KatrinaC_2

Flimber wrote:

Our 8yo seems only have chocolate or crisps for supper every night and it's bothering me. I was wondering what alternatives people have in their households. She's not really a fussy eater but given the choice she'd have chocolate for every meal, every day of the week. It's making me seriously want to ban the stuff...

Help ?

Did you watch the Truth About Food programme on BBC2 where they looked at children and food? In that they discovered that banning foodstuffs makes children want it more (just like I do when I'm on a diet!)

My son has a snack at the afterschool club before he comes home and has a proper dinner. Normally they serve toast, fresh fruit and raw vegetables, yoghurts, cereal, eggy bread, and soup.

Kat

thriftlady_2

Supper in my house is also known as tea - ie the main meal. The kids don't have anything else to eat after that (we eat at 6), I do though and it's a bad habit for me.