what does your 3 year old eat?

[DoubleK]

just wondering what other 3 year olds are eating, as in, for the whole day.
DD is 3 in a few weeks, and sometimes i worry she isnt eating enough.

Breakfast-
i make her a bowl of cereal (her choice) -once a week she will actually eat it, and ask for more, but generally she wont have more than one mouthful. i offer her toast about half an hour later, but she prefers a sandwhich, which ends up being 3 pieces of bread with peanut butter.
i'll offer an apple or banana for morning tea.. most days she will have either, some days she wants more sandwhich..

Lunch- scrambled eggs (i''l make 4 eggs, and she'll eat the lot) or frankfurst and rice (again her choice!) or ham and cheese roll/toasted cheese sandwhich

afternoon tea i again offer fruit, she'll have an apple or banana, but doesnt always eat it all. we might have a fruit bun, or like today a bread stick with vegemite.

Dinner we have a range of things, but she will never ever eat the whole lot. we dont serve her a big plate.. but i make sure its enough and always offer her more if she does eat it.

i just feel like she doesnt eat enough. i have a bunch of new recipes to try, but dont want to overwhelm her with too much new stuff lunch/snack wise.

just interested to see how much other 3 year olds eat!

[maz]

Vy's almost there....she picks throughout the day.

WHolemeal toast and apple and bananaa cut up with a milo for break

grapes, crackers, cheese, yoghurt, toasted cheese sanga for lunch and snacks

tea - what everf we are eating.

Ive found that she is preferring to have hot lunches atm...she had pumpkin soup yesterday and keeps asking me for more

BUT

she will have days were she just doesnt want to eat anything but the snot out of her nose

[~Kim~]

That sounds about what Darcy eats...
Porridge/vita brits for brekkie - this is the meal I'm almost guaranteed she'll eat all of, but she only has 1 vita brits
crackers, bickies, fruit, yoghurt throughout the day, sometimes a sandwich for lunch, sometimes nothing,
and occasionally she'll eat dinner.

Krystal sounds like a good little eater Rach. I reckon give the new recipes a go - she'll soon let you know how much she likes them.
I never really worry about dinner cos often they too tired to go to the effort of eating much - heck sometimes I don't feel like dinner.

[*Twinkle*]

She sounds pretty normal to me!!

Gemma eats...........

B/fast-toast (1 piece), or cereal (no milk!!LOL), sanwich, or fruit or sometimes all of them
M/tea - Fruit
Lunch-sandwich, pasta or frankfurts or crackers with vegemite and fruit
a/noon tea-fruit/crackers/muffin
dinner-pasta, rice, some meat, spag bog, homemade pizza

Somedays she will just graze all day long and not sit for an entire meal.

[*Belle*]

Julia has:

Banana, yogurt and toast for breakie

Mid morning snack - grapes/apple and or arrowroot bickie with Tara

Lunch - toasties, vegemit sandwich, ham/cheese sandwich.

Afternoon tea snack - cheese or yogurt or fruit

Dinner -whatever we have - pasta, homemade fried rice, homemade nuggets etc.

[DoubleK]

hmm i guess she does eat enough, i think somedays i worry because she seems to be asking for food every 5 minutes, but wont eat her actual meals... i always keep the fruit on a low shelf in the pantry, and tell her to pick what fruit she wants to eat.

i will give the new stuff a go, at least if she doesnt eat it, i will!!