does your toddler actually eat? as in a proper sit down and eat a plate full type meal???

My two both love their breakfast, usually dry cereal + brown toast/toated pancakes + a piece of fruit each

Thomas really likes his lunch and will eat a full 2 slice sandwich, a piece of fruit (or two), a yoghurt and a bag of crisps. Hannah however has taken to just picking at her lunch, today she had 1/4 cheese sarnie and couple of slices of banana and a cherry tomato

Dinner is the other way around - Hannah loves her dinner, she can quite easily polish off 3 fishfingers, a whole jacket potato (large one ) and a massive mound of veg followed by fruit and custard or a muffin etc. Thomas is a pain and will literally eat 1/2 a fishfinger and a couple of jacket wedges (wont touch veg)

So they each only really have 2 meals a day + a snack and drink plenty. I'm not worried about them as such just wondered if anyone elses kids are like this?

xx

Izzy has 4 Breakfast, Lunch, Tea and Supper!

An example would be

Cereal & banana for breakfast
Jacket potato and yoghurt for lunch
Whatever we have for tea plus fruit/yoghurt/whatever pud we have if we have one
Cereal for supper

Also snacks in between if she asks, but not big snacks

This week she has been poorly though, and although still having 4 meals she has just been picking at lunch and tea

Sam will have wheatabix on a morning, fruit throughout the rest of the morning, maybe a sandwich or something light for lunch, then when the kids come home from school they all gorge on snacks, cheese strings, cheese dippers, biscuits, crisps, fruit, sausage rolls etc!! (have tried to stop them but it doesnt work!) so he joins in too then we will sit down and have a proper cooked dinner around 6-7 xx

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Sam will have wheatabix on a morning, fruit throughout the rest of the morning, maybe a sandwich or something light for lunch, then when the kids come home from school they all gorge on snacks, cheese strings, cheese dippers, biscuits, crisps, fruit, sausage rolls etc!! (have tried to stop them but it doesnt work!) so he joins in too then we will sit down and have a proper cooked dinner around 6-7 xx

lol you are soft!!! Don't buy them! That'll do the trick

Lisa my life wouldnt be worth living if i didnt buy snacks!! Easier just to let them get on with it

Ellie is a bit of a picker when it comes to breakfast and will just have a bit of toast or crumpet and half a banana. Lunch is usually cheese on toast/butty/beans and sausage. But at tea time (5pm) she has a proper dinner with veg and ketchup (she loves ketchup). Then when we eat at around 7 she has a bit of what we have.

I've also got other kids and a kitchen full of crisps, sweets,biscuits, cheese strings which ellie loves so gets these.

Ava sounds a bit like Hannah, wolfs her porridge every morning, picks at lunch and eats all her dinner, she's been off her food for a few weeks but seems to be getting back on track now

3 usually - eli is a bit funny with brekkie and it can be a whole bowl of cereal and toast or sometimes half a yogurt...lunchtime he usually eats for about an hour haha you can just keep putting things in front of him!!! then a bit funny with tea, usually somewhere between breakfast and lunch sized meal....but he still has snacks and bf during the day although no supper just a bf at bedtime.

Lewis loves his food and will have 3 meals and snacks, H on the hand sometimes doesn't eat all his meals and will pick sometimes x

Callum tends to eat a good amount of breafast dily with a snack around 10ish then if he naps he will not eat much for lunch he would just pick but if he wont go down he will eat a whole sandwich adn snacks but the more he eats at lunch the less he eats at dinner x
Im not worried about it anymore he will eat if hes hungary your offering it to them not much moe you can do x

Oliver is an 'early day' eater too.

Breakfast he can polish off an adult portion of porridge + milk. 10.30ish, he'll have a slice of toast and some fruit ie; a portion of strawberries and a banana. Lunch he more often than not scrans all his s/wich, more fruit, yogurt and a chocbar/biscuit or crisps.

Then when it comes to tea time he just picks.

I'm not worried as I know he gets a good diet early on in the day, so sometimes he'll pick at tea and have a portion of fruit for.

alfie loves any food at any time!! hje usually eats either 2 weetabix with banana for brekkie or 2 slices of toast. dinner is usually a sandwich with fruit and a yog and tea is normally watever we had for tea the night before. he sometimes has a biscuit or a crumpet before bed too depending on when he had tea. he also has snacks!!

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Tyler has 3 meals out of 4 normally...
he has a massive breakfast at home, and then has a second breakfast at nursery (sometimes 2 portions!)

Then if he's at nursery he has between 2 and 3 portions of whatever they give him. When he's home he picks at him tea but he will always eat loads of fruit for pudding.

So he fills up in the morning and just tops up before bed I guess. On the weekend when he's with us he picks at lunch and dinner though.

Braden eats all his meals, and one snack a day.. dita barely eats anything. then maybe once a week will pig out x

Imogen will always eat breakfast typically wheatabix or shreddies with raisins, toast or dippy eat &toast.

Lunch is hit and miss, one day she'll eat the lot the next nothing. It can be exactly the same thing and she'll love it one day, hate it another. I usually give her a sandwich with fruit &yoghurt.

Dinner she's got really good and will eat most of it.

I'd say like yours, Immi is eating 2 1/2 meals really but i'm not too worried. The days she doesnt touch lunch i try to give her more dinner or snacks (she rarely has snacks)

oliver is the same debs, if he eats lunch he will just pick at his dinner, but if her picks at his lunch he will eat dinner

leo on the other hand like izzy has always had 4 meals and eats loads x

When Soph's hasnt got a cold, she usually will eat an adult portion of cereal or porridge and if a nursery dya have toast too.

For lunch it is hit and miss, but usually eats at least half of it. I do things like a sarnie and fruit (sometimes all of it, usually at elast half of it and all the fruit), maccy cheese, or spaghetti hoops on toast.

For dinner, when she is in good form, she will isially eat most of it, but if she decides she doesnt like it, or is too tired, then not so much.

At nursery though, she has toast in the morning, then a snack, then a lunch with a pud, then tea with a pud, and she usually eats the lot, then has dinner at home and usually eats most of that too!

She has snacks when at home, but just when she asks for them, so sometimes not many at all!

Mandy xx

dita is 17 months and has 1/2 a slice of toast for brekkie, sometimes a mini box of raisins 1/4 sandwich (again half of one slice) for dinner and half pack of quavers, 3 cherry toms and half an apple. 1 smiley face and 1 sausage and a tablespoon peas (just as an example) maybe a biscuit or mini milk or more fruit pudding she doesnt have snacks either x

hannahs fave meal of the day is breakfast. she has a huge bowl of cereal or two weetabix. she then gets fruit for a snack and will always eat all her lunch - I serve sandwiches but her nursery will serve a two course meal like soup and then mince and potatoes or something.

she hardly ever eats her dinner unless its something she really loves and that can vary depending on her mood so its not like I can always serve things I know she likes.

paiges doent do to well.. a normal day lately has been

b- ceral or one slice of toast n a cup of milk
s- some fruit
l- half a sandiwch or ceral bar thing, a cheese string and yogurt
s- a biccy
d- will be for example, one fish finger a veggy stick or some thing likw that, beans n some sort of spud, which she never eats it all.. n then a fruit pot buit she wont eat them these days

lily-ann always has 3meals a day, she only doesn't eat if she's really ill and we can't get it down her

lewis never skipped a meal either until lately...the past week or two he's gotten really fussy and kicks up a fuss at lunch!