What do you feed your children?

Question

hi i am doing a course in childcare and we are looking at childrens diet. I am a mother of one so i have some of my project finished but i need some answers from other family's. what on a typical week do you give your children for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner,Drinks and Snacks. Thank you.

Answer 1

food

Answer 2

These are some of the things they get to chose from:
Breakfast:
oat meal,cereal,toast,waffles,eggs
snack:
fruit,cheese and crackers, yogurt,apple sauce some times cookies or granola bars
Lunch for my 6 year old at school
sandwich
piece of fruit
and some kind of treat cookie,granola bar, pudding, or yogurt
and a juice box or milk
lunch for my 2 year old
always with out fail P B &J he will always if asked choose this
Dinner time
Some times pasta with a salad and garilc toast
most often a meat or fish
a starch{potaoes or pasta side }
Veggies
To drink during the day
water ,milk and sometimes juice,
every once in a while pop,with meals it is milk or juice
Our treat foods are :
pizza,and Wendy's

Answer 3

Mine's a fussy eater. She refuses milk and cheese. Even cheese in child-orientated wrapping she won't buy. So i have to make sure she gets her calcium other ways. She refuses any milk flavoured drinks too.
So a typical day would be fortified drinking yoghourt for breakfast with something cereal. Other days she will just eat a banana and plums or apple for breakfast.
Lunch is usually pasta or rice with vegetables and fish or sausage.
Dinner we sit all at the table in the evenings and have meat, veg and potato or pasta something or rice something.
Snacks would be crackers, soy yoghourt, fresh fruit or dried fruit, fruit bars, hot cross bun, soya sausages, dry toast, juice, scotch pancakes, rice cakes, corn cakes and savoury soy sticks and plain or salt and vinegar crisps (all the others have monosodium glutamate or colourings in them).

On the drinks she has been told she can't have coca cola or other fizz till she start big school and then only on special occasions. She loves her juice and will drink chamomile and honey tea on a good day. She drinks plenty of water too.

She's 3.5.

Answer 4

Dinner around here is always something similar to this: Chicken, white steamed rice and broccoli, chicken, pasta and broccoli, chicken with veggie stir fry and steamed rice, hamburger salad, taco salad and once in a while red meat in the form of a slow cooked roast with potatoes and carrots.
Unfortunately, my daughter and I drink lots of diet soda, but our eight year old drinks plenty of milk and water.

Lunch is whatever or go to Subway. Our school lunch is much improved and very nutritious.

Breakfast is cold cereal on hot days, waffles with milk, eggs with toast or flour tortilla and O.J. on cold days.

Our snacks that are good are Quaker granola bars, fruit snacks from Costco, Butter flavored popcorn from Hollywood Video is the best, carrot and celery sticks, sliced apples.
Our bad snacks are chips and salsa, chocolate candy especially Twix bar (my personal favorite).

Answer 5

Ok, we are a kinda Nigerian family (although myself and daughter were born and bred here)

She is 13 months and eats what we eat.

A typical day would consist of:

Breakfast = warmed bran flakes/ready brek and honey

Lunch = spaghetti/rice with a vegetable and tuna tomato stew OR potato porridge (mashed potato with peppers, broccolli,carrots)

Dinner = pounded yam with traditional Nigerian soup, maybe egusi soup (usually containing some kind of dark leaf), assorted meat and fish

Drinks, orange juice, apple juice, pineapple juice, water

Snacks include fruit (grapes, oranges, apples) but occasionally she might have a digestive/other biscuit, some croissant, some hard-dough bread (a kind of caribbean bread) and milky sweet tea. Over Christmas she even had a twix or two (naughty), apple pie and custard. She has a very varied diet, I try to keep it healthy but she does get treats now and again.

Answer 6

Hi i am a single mum of two, and get the mickey taken out of me by my mates all the time because of what i feed my kids. Breakfast is normally Porridge or Fruit and Fibre. My eldest has school dinners but my youngest is at home, so i give him turkey salad sandwich, sliced peppers, carrots, apple and banana. For dinner we normally have chicken/fish with oven roasted veg and brown rice, or something simple like cottage pie with sweet potatoes instead of normal potatoes. Snacks are normally fruit, although my eldest loves carrots. Many of my friends think that i am wierd, but a child diet is so important that i like to make sure they are properly fed. Most people are surprised by my kids diet, as they reckon most single mums feed their kids nothing but chips and turkey twizzlers!! Hope this helped!

Answer 7

Cereal for breakfast (not sugary ones).
Fruit and yoghurt for lunch. Sometimes a sandwich.
Dinner would be pasta, or potatoes with chicken or salmon with some veg etc.
Sometimes they will get a bedtime snack such as toast or a pancake.
They do also get the odd treat such as a biscuit, crisps etc. As long as the majority of their diet is wholesome (organic where possible) I fell there is no harm in a little bit of junk. As long as it is a LITTLE!

Answer 8

My children love string cheese, sliced cheese, cereal, waffles, clementines (small oranges without seeds), hotdogs (occasionally), fruit snacks, grapes, apples, bananas, yogurt.

For dinners we cook spaghetti with organic sauce, chicken, mashed potatoes, canned veggies, vegetable salads. My husband loves to make tacos as well, but only one of my 3 will actually eat them. Lunches usually consist of peanut butter and jelly, or sandwiches of some sort. My older daughter will eat ramen noodles, soup, or ravioli. We also make macaroni and cheese. (boxed or homemade, depending on the ingredients on hand)

For drinks we let them have water. They have some milk and/or juice at daycare, but never at home.

For special snacks, we serve sugar free popsicles, ice cream, jell-o, mandarin oranges.

This is not an all inclusive list...just a few of our favorites.

Answer 9

I feed my girls as little junk as possible, lots of fruit and veg (which I hide in that brill Jamie Oliver 7 veg sauce which I make in bulk and freeze, goes on everything from pasta to shepherds pie) raw carrots, cuc and tomatoes are always faves. Love summer when they live on blueberries and melon and pasta. For brekkie I do ready brek, toast, boiled eggs, cereal ( not mad stuff) muffins with bacon and poached egg. Snacks- I give biscuits or berries, quesidillas, which is melted cheese inside tortillas cut into wedges, they love! Marmite or peanut butter on toast, pancakes with honey all good stuff.
Lunchboxes I find hard keeping new and interesting but I make banana bread or banana & blueberry muffins to go in and have put in tuna pittas today1 Hope this helps! Also, sad to say they do like a McDonalds every now and then but keep it rare and as a "treat" as they put it, but it's hard to consider putting that rubbish into your child as a treat!

Answer 10

My son is 9 months old and he will eat:

Drinks - He will have baby milk in the morning and before bed and then throughout the day he will drink baby juice as he hates water on its own.

Breakfast - toast, porriage,baby cereal or fruit
Lunch - sandwiches, beans on toast, more fruit, yogarts
Dinner - roast chicken and veg, fish and parsley sauce with mash, spag bol, lazana, and a pudding such as yogart, fruit puree or a bananna.

Sancks - Rusks, yogart pots, fruity custard or friuty rice pudding

He will also still have baby dinners in a jar and I try to inculde lots of veg, salad a and fruit in his diet! and i never give him cakes or chocolate.

Answer 11

This is not as easy a question as you think at first. I have babysat for nephews and trying to get them to eat properly is a bear.

Breakfast: ( apparently where I am most successful) simple egg and cheese omelets and bacon/Oatmeal with maple syrup/pancakes and OJ.

Lunch: Keebler crackers and butter with shredded turkey or ham and cheese on the side. Peanut Butter and honey sandwiches.

Dinner: Chicken fingers (homemade), roast beef and egg noodles, pasta. Vegetables are a tough sell.

Snacks: Craisins ( dried sweetened cranberries), cut up apples , sometimes ice cream or cupcakes.