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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the suggestions. A few things to answer prior questions above.

1) He only drinks juice or chocolate milk 1 or 2x each week when we're actually out at a restaurant to eat. Usually it's water/milk only.

2) I try to cook and eat most meals at home, but he does get a snack at school at extended day which I can't really control. He'll sometimes eat nothing or eat 3 packages (100 calorie packs) of goldfish if they have it! I know self control also needs to be learned. I'll try to have more conversations about portion control in general.

4) lunch wise, whenever I ask about leftover lunch, he always tells me he just ran out of time. I know it's prob because he was playing around at lunch. If he asks for a snack before dinner, I'll just have him eat the left over fruit or whatever is in his pack.

4) We eat a dessert 3-4x a week. Usually a small pack of the halloween candies and maybe 1x a week a slice of cake/ice cream. Otherwise, each night for dinner, we're having protein, veg, and carb.

5) activity wise he normally plays a couple sports during the spring and fall season but as most boys now, they love their video game time.

I will say that some of the easier pack options he's not keen on. He's not a fan of lunch meats, hummus, or cheese! He likes vanilla yogurt but not the plain one. He'll also only eat 3-4 kinds of cooked veggies and not the raw veggie types like carrot sticks. I guess all those things I could get him use to eating eventually but slow moving there.

Sample daily foods. I would estimate he eats about 1600-1700 calories a day. He's 62 percentile in height at 83% in weight.

Breakfast:
2 scrambled eggs or bowl of wheaties with milk

Lunch/snack
- 4 dino nuggets or sandwich bread with nutella (not a fan of peanut butter), but I only give a light covering on 1 slide of whole wheat bread. 
- 1 fruit (clementine, apples, banana)
- snack bar like fiber one bar
- 1 -1.5oz of chips (pita, potato, potato sticks, tortilla)
- water

Extended day - guessing nothing or up to 400 calories of junk food.

Dinner
- broiled chicken/dumplings/meatballs/hotdog
- bowl of rice/noodles
- broccoli/spinach/beans

Snack after dinner
- apples/watermelon/clementines or another fruit
- sometimes yogurt if he's still hungry

And to top it off, my 4yo is 30% in BMI who just doesn't like food as much as my older. :(

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