How much food?

VeilSdeGTO · January 2013

So daycare keeps telling me that DD is still hungry after she finishes her food. Just curious to see whether she is going through a growth spurt or if I'm just not giving her enough.

So how much food are you giving LO for each meal and snack?

kagl08 · January 2013

DS gets:

For breakfast: 1 banana, 2 mini muffins and 1/2 a breakfast bar for breakfast.

Lunch: a yogurt, cheese stick, carrot sticks and one crackers

Dinner: 2 pieces of meatloaf, 2 perogies, 3 servings of green beans, and apple sauce.

This is what he had today. It's pretty typical. He's a piggy.

Deez10 · January 2013

I am very curious to what other moms will have to say. DS is a bottomless pit & we used to joke about it at first - since he's just a big kid in general (98th % all around) and everyone in our family is tall - but the kid can seriously eat.

When he at more than DH the other morning (pumpkin pancakes)... my jaw actually dropped. If he so much as sees someone with food in his vicinity, he will walk over to them, "ask" (aka - make some sort of attempt at saying 'please') and open his mouth. Like a baby bird. Or a begging dog. Whichever.

missyishere · January 2013

She usually eats about 3 ounces of solid food at each meal. I'm just guessing. She eats snacks between in addition to her approximately 16 ounces of WCM. She also nurses first thing in the morning. She goes in waves, though. Right now she's eating and sleeping a ton. I'm guessing my goose is a growing girl.

mamaZbo · January 2013

Breakfast is usually dry cereal with fruit; snack is 1/2 a pouch of fruit and veggie over 4 oz of Greek yogurt; lunch tomorrow will be 1/2 a small chicken breast with 1/4 sweet potato, grapes and a couple ginger snaps; afternoon snack is 3 or 4 mini rice cakes and some goldfish; and dinner will be a serving if Annie's Mac and cheese with broccoli and a clementine.

Dd is an eater and will finish every last crumb.

CMonkey515 · January 2013

DS eats a ton some days, others not so much. It just depends. Today, for example, DS had:

breakfast- one and a half kashi blueberry waffles, 1/2 tub of yoToddler yogurt , and half a banana

lunch- 1/2 chicken and cheese quesadilla, and about 6 cooked baby carrots.

dinner- about a cup and a half of penne pasta, two small meatballs, a tiny bit of broccoli, and about 6 cut up grapes.

Along with a very small handful of puffs in the afternoon and about 20 oz of milk.

anasazi17 · January 2013

We are all over the place in the food department. Some days she eats a ton, some days hardly anything. Here's a typical day:

Breakfast: 1-1/2 waffle or 2 pancakes, banana & 6-8 oz milk

Lunch: 1/2 cup fruit or veggie, Smart dog, cheese stick & 4-6 oz milk

Snack: 1/4 cup grapes, whole wheat mini bagel or crackers

Dinner: 1/2 turkey & cheese on whole wheat, 1/2 cup veggie & yogurt 6-8 oz milk

My child hates most meat, and refuses all pasta. She eats a ton of veggies & fruit. I continue to introduce the food that we eat to her, which she usually spits out. She has been this picky since about 12 months.

ETA: edit meals

blu-eyedwife · January 2013

He eats breakfast at home, but then I usually pack him a little something for daycare, in case the others have a late breakfast, so he has something to eat while they eat.

His breakfast at home is pretty big though. He usually has something like a sausage, hash brown, and banana. Then at daycare he'll have some fruit or cheerios.

lunch: I pack him the same size portion as DH and I. I used to pack less, but got a note he was still hungry. And I pack him the same thing I pack for DH and I. So today he had veggie fried rice, 4 veggie gyoza and 1/3 of an apple.

snack: He gets a little munchkin bowl full of treats - hummus and veggies, cheese and crackers, fruit, and they supplement as needed with his "dry snack" drawer.

He also does dinner at home. And lately he's been eating a ton. Like a full bowl of soup. Or 3 munchkin-sized bowls. Last night he ate an enchilada. Tonight I have no doubt he'll consume a full munchkin-sized bowl of red beans and rice, and may even have seconds.

cantalopes24 · January 2013

For breakfast a bowl of oatmeal close to an adult size portion and a serving of fruit. Sometimes she'll also have a hard boiled egg.
Lunch is a serving of lunch meat or grilled chicken and chopped or steamed veggies with some kind of starch. If she's still hungry she'll have some Greek yogurt or shredded or cubed cheese.
For dinner she eats whatever we eat.
Sometime during the day she also eats a Nutri Grain bar or kids Luna/Cliff bar, another serving or 2 of fresh fruit, yogurt, shredded carrots, cheese, one or 2 servings of eggs, a serving of Goldfish, some graham crackers or animal crackers, and occasionally a fruit/veggie pouch if we're doing a lot of running around. And yes I mean all of those things not a combination of them. She also takes in 1624 ounces of milk.

KrisM86 · January 2013

Here's what DD ate yesterday.

Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg with cheese, 1 banana

Morning snack: Cheerios and a pouch

Lunch: Peanut butter sandwich, cheese stick

Afternoon snack: Bowl of Greek yogurt with berries

Dinner: Huge bowl of macaroni and cheese with chicken, small bowl of green beans

This is pretty typical for her, although it does vary a bit. She also gets milk with all meals and water throughout the day in addition to nursing 2 to 4 times a day. I'm always trying to get more veggies into her.

mrsgabus · January 2013

Levi is a small portion man.

He has a bowl of cereal or 2 pancakessmall

Then he has a banana, gram crackers for snack,

Lunch is usually a sandwich with cubed cheese.

He will usually have animal crackers, goldfish or fruit for hus afternoon snack
Dinner is what we eat usually chicken, potatoes and a veggie.

He picks at his food alot

Ms.Jade · January 2013

Lately we can't feed E enough either. I think it's the age. She eats dry cereal on her high chair while I have my cereal in the morning before work, and then oatmeal mixed with puree, toast, and fruit when my sister gets there to watch her. Lunch is usually leftovers fro our dinner the night before. Yesterday she had nearly a cup of chili with kidney beans and tomatoes and a cornbread muffin. For dinner she at 4 meatballs quartered with puffs, a pouch of pureed blueberries and purple carrots, some broccoli, 1/2 a stick of string cheese and milk. This is why we call her Piggie

monishabansal · January 2013

I'm not sure what I'm making for dinner tonight yet, so here is what DD had yesterday. She doesn't drink the whole cup of milk at each sitting.

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs with a little cheddar and broccoli, about an ounce of prunes, milk

Lunch: sweet potato (4 oz?), 3 small meatballs, kale chips, milk

Snack: Blueberry applesauce

Dinner: Chicken noodle casserole (about 1.5 cups of food), milk

jwls84 · January 2013

We are going through a horrible food phase! Pretty sure his molar is coming in on his right side, all he will eat is corn, peas, carrots and beans. Cheerios and blueberries! That is it! I am at a loss!

aml+japan · January 2013

Deez10:
I am very curious to what other moms will have to say.nbsp; DS is a bottomless pit amp; we used to joke about it at first since he's just a big kid in general 98th all around and everyone in our family is tall but the kid can seriously eat.nbsp; When he at more than DH the other morning pumpkin pancakes... my jaw actually dropped.nbsp; If he so much as sees someone with food in his vicinity, he will walk over to them, "ask" aka make some sort of attempt at saying 'please' and open his mouth.nbsp; Like a baby bird.nbsp; Or a begging dog.nbsp; Whichever.

This is L. She is ALWAYS hungry and she gets very grumpy if I can't make her meals fast enough, then she wants to eat mine as well! And somehow she remains in the lowest percentiles for weight.

ETA I do measure her meals and she gets about 7 oz each time, if that helps. Plus about 5 oz of WCM.

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