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MY son is 6 years old 48lbs and 4'1 and eats all day. He will literally cry two hours after he ate. I understand he takes a lot of activities so I feed him what he needs. But he wants more I always give him food as long as it is somewhat healthy but he still acts like he is starving.
Breakfast: Bagel with cream cheese / or wheat waffle with sausage and a fruit (apples or berries)
Snack (weekends only) yogurt and nuts or pretzels
Lunch is at 10:30 on school days and I pack him a sandwich fruit juice and veggie puffs
I pick him up at 2:20 and feed him at home something like a half a sandwich or like today simple pasta sauce and cheese.
On his way to class/ practice at 4:30 ( karate, football, swimming, piano) I might give him a granola bar or a bag of dried fruit.
He has dinner around 6 a full meal and dessert by 7:30 (cake, parfait, cookies, ect) then bed.
I only give him juice for lunch he has milk, tea or water the rest of the day. Even with him eating pretty often he still acts as if is not enough food. He will tell me he is starving. How can he be hungry? He isn't overweight in anyway. Where is the food going?
My grocery bill has basically doubled with "half" a person.
YOU ARENT FEEDING HIM ENOUGH
that sounds like Weight Watchers not the healthy diet of a growing child!!!!!
We have local high schools with a 10:30 lunch. I see kids in the nearby restaurants eating another meal after school. I'm sure mom loves that at dinner time a couple hours later!
The boys will eat their full dinner with seconds, and then another meal an hour or two later!
OP, do you guys eat meat? My son went vegetarian (not vegan) last summer. I tried everything I could to add protein to his diet. Cottage cheese pancakes, omelettes, yogurt, whatever I could find that he might be willing to eat. He was the vegetarian who wouldn't eat vegetables! I was beside myself - I felt like I was struggling with a failure to thrive infant again. I warned him that he would not grow on this diet - and he DID take a multivitamin with iron every day, with something acidic for absorption.
Long story short, someone measured him after four months of this, and he found that he hadn't grown AT ALL over the summer - and kids usually grow faster in the summer. He LOST weight, instead of gaining. I warned him that he could never make up the lost growth, and this time, he listened. Even though ethically he was against it, he went back to eating meat, and started growing again. I told him he could (and should) become a vegetarian after he was finished growing.
OP, do you guys eat meat? My son went vegetarian (not vegan) last summer. I tried everything I could to add protein to his diet. Cottage cheese pancakes, omelettes, yogurt, whatever I could find that he might be willing to eat. He was the vegetarian who wouldn't eat vegetables! I was beside myself - I felt like I was struggling with a failure to thrive infant again. I warned him that he would not grow on this diet - and he DID take a multivitamin with iron every day, with something acidic for absorption.
Long story short, someone measured him after four months of this, and he found that he hadn't grown AT ALL over the summer - and kids usually grow faster in the summer. He LOST weight, instead of gaining. I warned him that he could never make up the lost growth, and this time, he listened. Even though ethically he was against it, he went back to eating meat, and started growing again. I told him he could (and should) become a vegetarian after he was finished growing.
So add more meat to his diet.
No he says he wont eat any animals but has no problem eating fish and the turkey links . Just another way to make meal time stressful. He will eat those quorn products the ones made from mycoprotien (its vegetarian and soy free). I bought the cliff bars he loves them. The kids one and not the adult ones filled with soy. He loves nut so I will up them. I also started sneaking chia and hemp into his oatmeal he doesn't notice.
Can you feed him eggs? Bean and cheese burritos (make up a batch to use for a week). Add string cheese or full fat greek yogurt (without sweetner) to his lunch?
On the other hand, he's 6 years old. I have an 8 year old and 10 year old and they only eat about that amount.
He seems underweight if anything, so I wouldn't worry about too much food. Add some to the lunch, he should be having a full sandwich by now, and let him have more milk.
Most kids won't eat veggies, if yours does add some into his lunch. If not fresh fruit is a good source of energy.
Your child should never be hungry, if he wants more food give it too him (within reason of course). You are feeding him pretty healthy food, he just needs more of it.
The boys will eat their full dinner with seconds, and then another meal an hour or two later!
So true!
I remember when my adult kids were teens. I had 3 in the house at once (2 boys and a girl).
They would eat a couple bowls of cereal for breakfast. Pack a lunch but eat it as a snack. They would get fast food for lunch (infuriates me HS offered actual fast food venders at school). Grab another meal or large snack after school. Come home and snack a ton. And still put away an entire plate (or two) of food at dinner. And then a midnight snack.
And they were thin!! They were pretty active...but still...
I simply cannot believe the child has a snack sometimes - my kids ate all day, every day. From the minute they got up they were grazing, pretty much. Plus eating 3 meals a day I prepared.
They weren't fat, still arent. My daughter is Tall and always has been.
This child is underweight and hungry because HES UNDERFED!!!!
I don't see anything wrong with what you are feeding him (although I would skip juice or any sweetened beverage). My daughter is a light eater but *always* hungry. Its hard to explain. But she wouldn't eat all that food most days, but still complain about being hungry. At 9, she has access to the kitchen when ever she is hungry. She still wants dinner at 4pm. She needs to eat about every 2 hours, just a little bit, to maintain her blood sugar. She is still very thin, its her metabolism. So perhaps a change in routine might help.
I remember all my kids were STARVING after school. I always, always, always brought snacks for the car. Otherwise it was a tear fest in the car on the way home. But sometimes I wondered if it was also emotional. There is an attachment aspect to being fed...and having been apart all day (still fairly young), being fed immediately (like they were as babies) provides comfort that you are still there and going to take care of them. So I am not always sure "hunger" is about an empty tummy. Being fed is comfort.
I might add more to lunch. Sandwich, milk, yogurt/cheese (unless there is cheese on the sandwich), apple sauce, cooked and cooled peas. I love my Planet Boxes (google it) because it gives you lots of little compartments for variety. But I would expect much of that would go into the trash.
My kids are picky about meats too. Texture thing. They love sushi, but hate chicken breasts. They like soy protein sausage, but not pork sausage. *sigh*. Its fun to feed kids (not!).
Good luck!
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. Just another way to make meal time stressful. He will eat those quorn products the ones made from mycoprotien (its vegetarian and soy free). I bought the cliff bars he loves them. The kids one and not the adult ones filled with soy. He loves nut so I will up them. I also started sneaking chia and hemp into his oatmeal he doesn't notice.
