Mine eats all day! Breakfast , snack, morning tea, snack, lunch, snack lol.
Both boys eat a lot though. I have found weetbix and rice to be very helpful to fill them up! They eat a lot of fruit but thy doesn't really fill them up.
I am constantly fighting them off the fridge and cupboard! They even snapped the lock on the cupboard trying to get in!
My family in law ALL get grumpy if they don't eat! They get very irritable and cannot concentrate.
So I think it's quite common. He must be having a growth spurt Hun!
My power weapon is porridge for brekkie. Gives me a little longer before she's manic!! I think it's the age, they're non stop. DD eats all day but is a tiny thing at 11 kgs.
DD is just over 2 & she eats every 2 or so hours. Since weaning she sometimes wakes for food during the night too.
DD is a hard kid to feed through the day though. She's not a snacker. She wants cooked foods. Scrambled eggs, pasta's, noodles etc. She doesn't do bikkies, sandwiches, meusli bars or any type of snack foods. Good, but difficult She's also pretty small. Unlike the rest of us!
I totally agree. Mine would eat non stop if I let them. I'm trying to stretch my bigger girl out a bit but it's hard when she's used to having it on tap.
I follow the HALT principle when there's a 'moment from one of them. Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?
I've bought a big box of weetbix and dropped it off to the childcare centre. Yesterday afternoon he (finally) went up to his carer and said Sharon I'm hungry - I want weetbix!. Some of the other kids seem to eat so little.
DH also has to eat every two hours or he gets grumpy too. I can't believe it took me this long to realise ....horrid mother! Starving my wee baby boy! He was a two-hour BFeeder too. Gawd, I feel like an idiot!
My 2-year-old eats like a sparrow. Rare that she would eat three proper meals per day. Then she seems to make up for it every few days and have a pig out. But she doesn't use up much energy, she potters about and tinkers with things.
She's tall but skinny. I could worry about it but really, it runs in the family so it's in her genes.
Glad that you've worked out what works for him though. Sounds like you're on to something!
My crazy, charismatic, dominant, defiant, moody, always loving DD seems to survive on sunshine and sand most days, with a regular big binge of good food every so often. Meals, as you can see in my BB album are catered right for her, made with her, and yet, nope, won't eat it usually. I continue to persevere, and see small progressive changes in her eating habits.
My trick is to tap into what her interest is, fairies, tomatoes, spiders or trucks.....and make it my best friend
mine used to eat all day, and about as much as me, but has dropped back now, so I think it was just a growth spurt.
I try to get her to eat 5 times a day (breakfast around 8, morning tea 10ish, lunch 12-1ish, afternoon tea 3-4ish and dinner around 7) but shes not been very interested
DS (3) is the same. It took me awhile to figure it out too. Now when ever he is grumpy or being destructive Ill ask him if hes hungry. The answer is almost always yes.
DS just turned 2, he eats all day!!He's a snacker and i suppose gets it from me, i often wonder how he lasts at child care the 2 days he goes as they have their structured eating times. I usually try to limit what he eats after about 3.30pm as he has dinner at 5, but if he demands more food i often just give him dinner earlier and then he will have a yoghurt and banana after just beefore bed if needed.
But otherwise breakfast anytime from 6am (usually up to 3 bowls of special k or the like, small kid bowls though!), then shares my breakfast at about 7am, then it starts all day...sultanas,apples, bananas, saos, vita wheats, sandwiches etc etc the list goes on, but just a sample of what he can eat in a day!
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She's also pretty small. Unlike the rest of us!
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