*"What did your Children Eat today?"*

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So, I'm wondering what other people's children eat . * *

I am dying of curiosity. Please post in glorious full technicolor detail, what food your child(ren) ate today.

My 8 year old son has so far eaten:

One apple in segments.

Scrambled egg seasoned with "tomato and basil seasalt", with baked beans in tomato sauce sprinkled with grated cheese, two small tinned tomatoes ( didn't do the shopping at the weekend so we're a bit low on fresh stuff), on a bed of shredded frisee lettuce ( what was left of it).

Little piece of goats cheese with a big blob of cherry jam.

That was lunch. ( Me, I only ate the apple. I quite often don't eat the bigger protein dishes; don't need them; that is my liver doesn't! )

He will probably eat rice cakes with chocolate spread and almond flakes, or with peanut butter, or nuts and raisins, or cornflakes with banana slices, this evening.

It occurs to me that although am very curious about eating habits in general, I am particularly curious about "normal" !

I look forward to finding out what a normal diet is.

my kids all eat a different variety of foods- and by that i mean that each has their own unique idiosyncracies that the others won't abide by...........16 year old was a vegetarian for quite awhile-3 1/2 years starting when he started middle school. he does not like the texture of certain foods. ( chicken,steak,turkey, potatoes, bananas)....will eat just about anything else, though. this morning, though, because it was just Easter, I caught him eating candy...............13 year old middle son didn't eat breakfast at all because he wasn't feeling well. normally, he eats everything except for most vegetables, and beans ( the only veggies he currently eats are: tomato sauce ( but not whole tomatoes), corn, broccoli,celery, salad greens, & carrots)................9 year old daughter had raisin toast with peanut butter on it. She has texture issues like the 16 year old. she won't eat chicken,turkey or steak-actually she doesn't like any beef . she LOVES American and Cheddar cheeses ! she also absolutely LOVES ketchup-to the point that we have to watch how much she's pouring on her plate.

the cardinal rule in our house has been eating food from plates that have divided sections.....most everyone hates when foods touch.......have actually been able to introduce a few casseroles lately and they've actually liked them ! huge triumph for us!

I've been told that for an austitic kid, he's not picky, but in comparison to his big brother, who is omnivorous, he is!

Breakfast is a huge problem at the moment. This morning he had toasted wholemeal pita bread with butter. Would eat cherios if I bought them, but I don't feel they are a good start to the day, so I reserve them for special days (remember I'm not American!).
Morning tea was melon and brownies we baked together.
Lunch more melon and pita bread - this time with lettuce (spelling?), chicken and cucumber.

He hates bananas, cheese, raw tomato, cooked vegtables (except in puréed soup, corn on the cob).
Doesn't drink much milk.
Loves meat - all kinds.

Big brother is a food hero - adventurous. When he went to France, his goal was to try horse meat, rabbit and frog legs - but he admitted it was mostly to freak the girls at school out He also tried tartar, but didn't like it. Lucky for him he is skinny!

Baby brother has AS traits, and has weird eating habits and is very stubborn. He gets porridge for breafast - would like it for lunch and dinner, too. Is generally typical number three and gets away with murder!

had toast with peanut butter for breakfast with milk, milk and cheese and crackers for morning snack with applesauce, turkey sandwich with lettuce salad for lunch, and angel food cake with strawberries for after school snack. We let him choose after school snack, whatever he wants when he comes home. will be spaghetti with meat and tomato sauce for supper with corn. He loves spaghetti!!

My son is so picky. Double Oatmeal for breakfast (sometimes pancakes),
Goldfish for snack,
plain bread, cookies, Goldfish, sometimes Pringles for lunch
cheese pizza or refried beans with cheese or chicken quesadilla (Taco Bell, it's just sauce, cheese and chicken), or fries

He drinks milk and apple juice at home. He snacks on cheddar cheese.

My sons both have severe food allergies (including eggs, peanuts, green peas and several other legumes, tomatoes) so that greatly influences their diets. They are both also very picky eaters (one more than the other).

For breakfast it's usually toast with Sunbutter (sunflower seed butter) and honey or oatmeal...on the weekends they may have pancakes and/or turkey bacon.

For lunch it's almost always Sunbutter and honey sandwiches and apple, pear or cucumber slices. They will very, very occasionally agree to a grill cheese sandwich.

After school snack is usually crackers and goat's cheese, granola bar, cold cereal with milk, multigrain taco chips or homemade cookies, muffins etc..

For supper they will eat plain meat and raw vegetables. One will eat pasta and rice, and one will not. They both dislike most cooked veggies and anything that has ingredients all mixed up together. We continue to make a variety of meals for them to try small amounts of and sometimes they surprise me (one will now happily eat steamed broccoli and one actually likes beef pot pie), but mostly they complain a lot about anything new and gag on the obligatory "just one bite". And foods that they used to eat often fall out of favour (i.e. neither will touch red peppers anymore when they used to love munching on them cut into strips). Presentation is also very important, as in can't be touching, can't have skin, seeds, core etc.

For bedtime snack usually it's a serving of fruit and maybe a homemade muffin or cold cereal and milk.

Ouinon, I think maybe our son is trying to make gourmet food!

Do you mean my son? Yes, actually, although it's usually me that cooks the main meal each day, he does enjoy making his own combinations/concoctions. He is definitely interested in tastes and food ideas. He adores indian spices and pickles.

So far today he's far eaten a split-green-pea and smokey-bacon soup which I made, and two little pots of fruit puree.

*your son


My friend once experimented with food-- cheesies and chocolate pudding, salsa and oranges, chips and honey, etc. Salsa and oranges, apparently, were really good.

He eats the same thing most days.

Breakfast
*6 saucer-sized pancakes

Lunch
*picks at his food and doesn't eat much of anything

Dinner
*Frozen pizza, taco caserole, chicken sandwich, or hamburger

There isn't much variety. I do make sure he gets a multi-vitamin every day.

I swear, both my children live on air. But, it seems to be they way they were born to be.

What my son ate yesterday, and this would actually be a "good" day for him:

Breakfast: Oatmeal and milk
Lunch: Wheat bread with butter, chocolate milk, tangerine, raisins
After school snack: Don't know, this was at daycare. May or may not have eaten it
Dinner: 5 mini-meatballs, a few mini-tomatos, a green salad, milk
Dessert: Cake at his cub scout meeting

We are testing out reducing the volume of processed or chemical additive foods he eats, but aren't trying to cut out wheat or milk. As you can tell from reading what he eats, that would be really hard. Wheat and diary are a HUGE part of his picky eater diet.

One common and noticeable feature of addiction is how it puts you off other things.

Specialists in food allergies/intolerance routinely suggest that if there is a food which you eat every day, which you eat more than any other, then it may well be the culprit in a host of other problems.

It is apparently like a flashing light to nutritionists experienced in food allergies/intolerance, the sign they look for above/before anything else; a narrow diet with preference for one or two things, and an avoidance of or indifference or even disgust for almost everything else.

It was certainly the case for me, pizza, cheeseburger, toasted sandwiches, etc. I ate almost nothing else.

Last edited by ouinon on 29 Mar 2008, 1:57 am, edited 1 time in total.

You insist on always knocking me off guard, don't you, lol? But, you have a really good point, and I should definitely look into it.

So far today:

Apple juice
Hot chocolate
and a fruit bar while shopping in town this morning because he was feeling hollow!

Lunch: Black pudding and broccoli with apple sauce
Strawberry puree

What people eat fascinates me. Thanks for all the posts so far. It's very interesting.

not sure exactly what he ate all of today because he was at grandmas
breakfast: pancakes
lunch: ???
snack: hot dog
supper: garlic butter shrimp and noodles with broccoli and green apple soda (it was a treat), and a popsicle.

usually:
breakfast: cereal with milk, toast (sandwich PB & J), or granola bar (when we're running late)
lunch: sandwich (ham or turkey and cheese, or PB&J) milk fruit or veggie
supper: whatever i happen to make loves chicken strips and french fries,& hot dogs.