Does your 4yo eat as much as mine?

Annie turned 4 in December. For breakfast today (at 7, before preschool) she had 3/4 of a PB/J sandwich, some applesauce,chocolate milk. Lunch at school (@11:30) was a whole PB/J sandwich, applesauce, milk (her choice, yes, the same as breakfast!)

After we pick her up at noon and come home, Joey, Ellie,and I eat. Today Annie had a bowl of spaghettios about 1:00. By 2 she was hounding me for more food, so she got 3 peanut butter cracker sandwiches and a glass of milk. She ate 1 1/2 cracker sandwiches and drank all the milk before falling asleep on the couch.

What a little piggy!!

 

Not my little guys. They don't like to eat when they wake up, hence nothing before snack time at school 3X a week. They eat their lunches, but still have to struggle to eat dinner most nights. I know when they come home from school though, they are starving, so they can get hungry. It just doesn't happen very often to my picky eaters.

Maybe your daughter hit a growth spurt. Those take alot of energy!

 

Sounds normal for a kid that age. Doesn't sound like much. The more then burn off the more then' think' they want.

 

Maybe this will help, my twins were 4 in October;

this is yesterdays meals for my son

B: Cereal with milk and water to drink
S: fruit
L: cottage cheese and a dill pickle water to drink
S: 1/2 ham and cheese sandwich and a juice box
S#2: Popcorn around 4ish
My daughter has gymnastics from 6-7pm on Mondays and Ryan takes a snack to keep him content there
S#3: cheese and crackers, juice box and some bugle chips
Dinner: kraft dinner with cut up hot dogs.and milk

I swear I"m getting a job at the grocery store for the discounts LMAO. I also have a 14 year old stepson 12 year old s/daughter and I've seen my 4 year old keep with the 14 year old!

 

ASounds normal. My 4yr old (was in Sept) eats:
Bfast- poptart and banana, milk
snack- crackers or apple and juice
lunch- chicken nuggets, yogurt, milk, applesauce
snack- crackers or fruit, water,
dinner very picky sometimes almost nothing, milk

 

My girls turned four in November. Kaitlyn eats just about that amount. She likes having three full meals and snacks. Kelly is a grazer. She picks all day and is three pounds lighter than Kaitlyn.

 

My boys are 4.5. Here's a typical day of food for them:

Breakfast: bowl of oatmeal with raisins and 1/2 banana, milk

Snack: graham crackers and juice

Lunch: 1/2 sandwich, pretzels, grapes, a couple raw veggies, yogurt or pudding

Snack: Raw veggies or peanut butter crackers, or sometimes a cookie or candy

Supper: Usually they eat more than I do for supper. Last night was 5 meat-filled ravioli with sauce and parmesan, 1 slice garlic bread, and corn. DH made cherry soda/vanilla ice cream floats for dessert.

 

My girls eat about that too.
today they had
breakfast: a toasted waffle and a bowl of cereal with milk, and a glass of OJ.
snack gold fish (they were at preschool today)
lunch yogurt, 1/2 PBJ sandwich (sometimes they also have fruit too)
snack (only if they didn't have a snack at school
snack again (after nap) Kira ate almost a whole apple (didn't eat two slices)
dinner, we had lasana and Kira had two full helpings and a biscuit. with a glass of milk.

then also after breakfast Katrina is constantly asking if it's time for lunch and usually has her yogurt early. They both ask for food a lot.

 

Thanks for the reassurance that she's not the only big eater!!!