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[quote=Anonymous]My 7YO usually has 2 eggs and a small bowl of cheerios/milk, sometimes a sausage too for breakfast. Then some unknown thing at before care (oatmeal? cereal? who knows!)

Lunch is a peanut butter sandwich (used to be 1/2 of one, now is a whole one), some pepper or carrot or apple slices. Sometimes a yogurt or smoothie if I think he needs some protein. Occasionally a cookie.

Snack in the afternoon at aftercare - chips, fruit? Not sure! Dinner  is noodles or rice with a meat or bean protein, cut veggies, and some cooked vegetable. Sometimes eats seconds of the noodles or rice.

To me, 1600 to 1700 calories seems like enough for an adult - how do kids compare? Maybe my example above adds to that. I'd ask the daycare people to not let him have more than one portion - maybe send in a vegetable snack to add if he's really hungry.

I have two kids that more or less eat a similar diet, though one is at preschool still (which offers catered snacks and meals, so more varied) - one is probably 80% the other 25%. As long as they are eating healthily I think it's ok. We do course correct occasionally, like after this holiday season where we've all indulged in many servings of cookies! ;)  My older kid seems to act badly if he's been eating too much junk, so then I just try to load him up more on veggies and protein. [/quote]

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