Help a 7 year old eating me out of house and home!

me_and_me_monkeys

thanks - I am going to keep a food diary - i just wondered if he was the only child out there who would eat this much!! I'll try and keep a diary of his activity but its quite difficult with him at school - thanks again for all your helpful posts

shop-to-drop

I agree with increasing the protein. I have three boys with different weights and appetites but all eat well. I do notice however that they have waves of being super hungry and growth spurts and then calms down for a while. Would he eat tinned sardines on his toast in the morning my boys love that. Also hard boiled eggs are easy to eat and filling and can be put into the packed lunch box too for extra protein along with a chunk of cheese.

Does he like bananas or any other fruit than apples that may fill him better? (oops yes looking back I see the answer to this is yes!)

I also find crumpets with cheese or brown toast and peanut butter a filling and inexpensive snack for after school.

He does sounds like a perfectly healthy active boy. Good luck filling him up.

Sarahsaver

My DS usually eats a lot but he seems to burn it all off. To some extent though food is related to my DS's behavioural problems. We are waiting for a diagnosis which is suspected either to be ADHD or Aspergers. He gets very upset and angry if the food is not right in quantity, 'fairness' of being shared out or given to him in the right order, so I always have to tell him what we are going to have and involve him in the decision making, i.e. rice or pasta, how shall we cook the prawns etc...
Consider your child OR yourself may have emotional issues around food. I dont mean this in a bad way. I did for a while cos the ex used to berate me for not being able to even cook frozen pies when I know I can cook very well. We all have food issues to a certain degree.
My DS cannot control his behaviour but he can control food to some degree.
I would agree filling up with too much carbs gives a high then they crash and just need more. But wholemeal fills them too much with starch, I try to get more protein into my kids. They love sprouted seeds and pulses, nuts, flapjacks.
A typical day for DS is a bowl of cereal sometimes 2
A fruit at school courtesy of lottery funding, and school milk.
Lunch is sandwich and 2 fruits or pasta and 2 fruits, or one fruit sometimes replaced with HM cake or flapjack, or handful of raisins, or a carrot.
Snack time about 3.30 a fruit and HM flapjack, peanut butter sandwich or nuts and dried fruit.
Tea about 6pm either a starter and main or main and dessert which may be fruit, all home cooked and all the veg is organic.
My DS is 7 and a half, weighs 4 stone3 and is as tall as my 10 yr. old DD.
I did worry about DS but he doesn't eat junk. I hope you manage to allay your fears and just go with the flow.

PasturesNew

Give the kid a big fat pie
And chips!

hilstep2000

Mine always ate far more when they were having a growing spurt! Wait till he's a teenager, you'll fill the fridge up today, it'll be empty tomorrow! LOL!

me_and_me_monkeys

sarahsaver - My son has aspergers and I was wondering if it might be an aspie thing!! Thank you - I was thinking that the connection between the two was in my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MissMotivation

PasturesNew wrote: »

Give the kid a big fat pie
And chips!

LOL...just what I was thinking :rotfl:

vaio

I’d do the diary and get him checked by your GP just to be on the safe side but from what I remember kids of that age can easily eat their own body weight in food every day (and do given half a chance)

I also remember the “emergency rations” required for just about any trip together with the carry over of meals, so if a meal was missed because we were out somewhere then obviously he was entitled to an extra one the next day

Savvy_Sue

The comment about not knowing when his tummy was full and eating until he was sick made me think that maybe you should check with GP. Also it's reminded me that in the Toddler Taming book, Dr Christopher Green does describe a condition where the child just wolfs any food down, including from other people's plates, and is then sick if told not to or prevented from doing so. That was a special needs child, IIRC. So, not saying there is or is not a problem with the amount he eats, but also with school phoning to say he is sobbing with hunger, there is more to this than meets the eye!

Sarahsaver

Savvy Sue are you thinking of Prader Willi syndrome? www.pwsa.co.uk I thought of that but couldn't remember the name. Monkeys' son doesn't sound that extreme. I think her son and mine were separated at birth