how much food does your toddler eat?
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Topic: how much food does your toddler eat?
Posted By: lizzle
Subject: how much food does your toddler eat?
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 8:26am
| Jake is now nearly two and eats SOOOO much for breakfast. I'm not sure if it's okay or not. He eats two weetbix and milk, then a couple of bits of toast. If I have some rice bubbles he'll have half a bowl of that too, and perhaps a yoghurt. It seems like a huge amount for such a little boy. He's not fat, and he does run around like crazy and expend a lot of energy, but when he sits eating,I see that5 woman from the "fat Chance" sitting there saying "you're killing your son" |
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 8:36am
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For me that sounds alot But if he is an active child then it must be ok, as long as he isnt just sitting around it will be fine
Way to eaat Jake 
Trish |
Posted By: Anna
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 8:52am
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Quinn is just a weeny bit older than Jake and he is the same. For brekkie it is two weetbix, banana and two pieces of toast. And then he'll eat anything else he can get his hands on, yoghurt, muesli bar... I could continue forever...
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 9:37am
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Hannah eats crap all for breakfast, I wish she'd eat more!!!
Sounds fine to me Liz. Isn't breakfast meant to be the largest meal of the day anyway? I'll be he just burns all the energy off! |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:34am
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Andrew eats LOADS for breakfast and is younger than Jake. He has two weetbix with a tub of yoghurt and then a full cup of warmed milk or watered down fruit (usually prune) juice depending on the state of his daily poo-splosions (he's always had constipation issues). He'll have a piece of fruit, toast or a couple of crackers for morning tea with a cup of water and at lunch time will eat a sandwich, slice of cheese, piece of fruit, krispee bikkie and have another drink. For dinner time he'll polish off a full bowl of meat and veges - something like savoury mince or soup etc and that's him fed for the day.
He's incredibly active when he's awake and sleeps through the night, so I figure that he's burning it all off. He's in the perfect weight range according to the trusty plunket book. I'd have 'You're Killing Your Kids/Fat Chance' moments if he was tucking down on pizza, nuggets, chips, chocolate and other crap all day. ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 3:22pm
| excellent! I get paranoid sometimes...I watched the other day when she told that lady off for giving her kids cornflakes. Now granted I didn't see everything, but seriously cornflakes? aren't they okay?> |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 4:16pm
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Geez, I would have thought so?!? I mean, excess sugar on cornflakes, I could see the problem... but just cornflakes?
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 5:14pm
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I watched that! She had a problem with it cos the girl was shovelling on heaps of sugar and then using blue top milk, which was not helping her cholersterol levels and she said she should have a high fibre cereal due to her high family risk of bowel cancer.
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 9:52pm
| Ooh, i should eat that then. My mum had bowel cancer when she was 21. |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:06pm
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Prune juice and weetbix for you then....mmmmmm fibre. ------------- |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:40pm
I was quite happy to chow down on the Weetbix and stewed prunes I got in hospital for breakfast, just to make sure things stayed 'comfortable' !  Am considering requesting some prunes from the supermarket tomorrow actually, not that we have any issues yet, BUT I'm taking those nasty iron tablets again and want to avoid any problems.------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 9:00am
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I hear you Jax!! I had everything stashed away at home "just in case" (try Kiwi Crush ice blockie things, apparently they are great) but luckily never needed anything... hope you are the same
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 20 July 2006 at 2:49pm
man oh man talk about eating my wee man (not) has for the day 1 weetbix and milk and a bottle a banana for a snack a pice of furit bread and marg or sandwhich and furit cup for lunch a bottle for snack and 2 cups of veges and mead uesly what i,m eating for tea and the pudding is that ok or not anef ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |