Boys tend to need more protien in their diets and girls carbs....cant remeber where i read this...also remember something about breast milk being higher in protien when nursing a boy... ahhh wish i could remember where i got that from...
anway, in this house its true DS is horrid if he isnt getting enough protien, carbs just dont fill him up! I also brought dinner time to 4.30pm as the kids were filling up on afternoon tea and dinner became a battle. I also make yoghurt for sweets so they think that are getting a treat but its that protien hit before bed rather than sugar.
All of my kids have to have either 2 or 3 breakfasts everymorning. (seriously - bowl of cereal, couple of peieces of toast, yogurt and fruit): if they miss even one breakfast I don't hear the end of it "mum, but I only had one breakfast this morning". If they do get all three breakfasts I 'might' get a half hour or so break before they complain they are hungry again. They are all little vultures.
We tend to have a few things they can eat at (nearly) anytime of the day (not if we are going to have dinner in the next 1/2 hr though). Things like fruit, chees slices, yogurt, sultana's. And then we have other snack food for 'meal' snacktimes (ie, morning tea, afternoon tea). Things like rice cakes, bikkies, airpopped popcorn. And then our mealtimes (bread, cereal, pasta, rice, stirfry's, etc). And then of course occaisional treats (either for one of the snacks during the day or for desert after dinner), ice-cream, slice, jelly, chips, chocolate, lollies, etc.
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