Childrens diet...

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Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

This is MONEY saving expert, so we need to know the cost.

Eh?
Completely irrelevant to the question.. At least this one.
OP didn't ask about anything to do with money.

GwylimT

There is too much sugar, if you want to sweeten the porridge why not add the banana to the porridge instead of putting honey in it? Yes, fruit contains sugar, but at least you are getting some benefit from the fruit where as you are gaining nothing from the honey or jam. Then there are other sources of sugar, the beans for example, then the bread will be turned into you guessed it sugar by the body and if not used it will then be stored as fat.

Yes, fab there is fruit it is sugary but as you benefit from fruit as long as you don't eat loads its fine, but there is a real lack of vegetables and fibre, not to be crude but that will not produce a healthy poo.

If I put the daily meals through a diet planner, with the jam I have guessed at around 1 table spoon, 1 tea spoon of spread and 100g of porridge, oh and 1 teaspoon of honey. The breakfast alone totals 617 calories and contains more than an adults daily allowance for sugar in fact it is double the amount an adult should consume in sugar per day, 1/3 of an adults daily allowance of fat has been consumed, over half an adults daily allowance of sodium has been consumed and it provides 3g of fibre.

Your diet is probably a fairly typical diet in the UK, but you have to remember most of us have a fairly poor diet and most of us are over weight.

This is what we are having/had today.

Breakfast porridge made with water with half a banana cooked into it per person, glass of unsweetened soya milk.

Lunch
Egg noodles with beansprouts, sugar snap peas, peas, broccoli, onion, soya beans and some scrambled egg (no added milk to egg) that is left over from last night. I had a glass of water, my daughter had some weak squash and on checking there is less than 0.5g of sugar in a 100ml diluted serving.

For dinner we are having
Steamed salmon (not wild) with a ginger and lime, this is with steamed green beans, new potatoes and some small corn on the cobs. I'll probably have this with a cup of tea and our daughter will probably have soya milk.

What we are eating in a whole day contains less sugar than your breakfast, it also contains less sodium, more fibre, and around the same amount of fat.

Alikay

Doesn't seem that bad to me as its mainly home-cooked food rather than processed stuff, but there does appear to be a lot of it, particularly the 3-course breakfast. Also I always do 2 veg with dinner in addition to potatoes, and a big pud with custard is rare treat.

Do you think your MIL is just being a typical critical MIL (mine was an old bag at times)? Or are you all a bit erm, cuddly?:D

mummyroysof3

herand wrote: »

You can "hide" vegetables in soups, stews, sauces etc and say if they don't finish their vegetables then that's all there is. Persevere, have a good variety at each meal. Get your kids involved in cooking and maybe growing vegetables so they are familiar with them.

I've tried everything I can think of and they won't eat soup and stuff in sauces either so that makes it even harder

Torry_Quine

Try traditional porridge which doesn't have all the sugar, fruit etc added to it. Porridge is a good healthy breakfast but not when adulterated in this way. :eek:

flutterby_lil

securityguy wrote: »

What makes you think that, for example, brown sugar, honey or the sugar in fruit is any different to white sugar? There's only one fresh vegetable per day in there, which seems pretty grim.

Well I worked out that beans and green beans = 2

alwaysskint96

flutterby_lil wrote: »

Well I worked out that beans and green beans = 2

Tinned baked beans are not a fresh vegetable

Dunroamin

alwaysskint96 wrote: »

Tinned baked beans are not a fresh vegetable

Neither vegetables nor fruit need to be fresh to count.

Gillyx

Bolognese, with veg grated in is a good way to get veg into every day diets, pasta salad at lunch is another.

We do porridge or weetabix in the morning here, usually it's just made with milk, and then I offer a piece of fruit afterwards if he's still hungry x

claire16c

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There's a lot of sugar in there, I think - brown sugar / honey, banana and jam for breakfast, probably in the beans, almost certainly in the yogurt and fruit, and sugar again in the crumble and custard, not to mention sugar in the fruit juice and diluted fruit juice.

I'd say it was a bit heavy on sugar, and alarmingly light on vegetables.

By comparison, my son (aged 8) had yesterday:

Breakfast - rice crispies without milk, water

Lunch - rice with tofu, raw red and green peppers, raw red cabbage, and various spices, apple, soya beans, water to drink

After school - 2 slices of fruit tea bread, cup of tea with milk

Dinner - chicken breast cooked in tomato, potatoes, spinach, sweetcorn, glass half apple juice, half water. After dinner he had a mini magnum-type ice-cream lolly.

sounds really good, but why would he eat rice crispies without any milk and drink water? Sounds pretty grim! I thought maybe he was allergic but then you say he has milk in his tea.