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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what is a typical diet like each day for your DD? For you and your DH?[/quote]

Here’s a hands-off day:

Whole grain cereal with whole milk
PBJ on whole wheat
Sliced apples or bananas
Toast with butter
Orange juice
Cereal with whole milk
Grilled chicken
Sweet potatoes with butter
Green beans
Ice cream

Here’s a hands-on day:

Soft boiled eggs with butter
Toast with butter
1/3 Avocado
Orange juice
Protein bar
Creamy cheesy mashed potatoes
Handful of nuts
Red peppers
Chocolate power waffle
Ensure Compact
Mango slices
Cinnamon bun
Cheese cubes and buttery crackers
1/3 Avocado
Kalamata olives
Carnation Instant Breakfast with whole milk

As for calories, I really don’t know. DD’s dietician does not recommend counting them but focusing instead on macronutrienrs food groups, with a focus on fats and proteins.

DH and eat pretty well. Oatmeal with fruit and nuts, big salad with protein for lunch or leftover dinner from the night before, nuts and banana or yogurt with granola  for snacks, salmon or other protein with rice or potatoes and a vegetable of some sort, dark chocolate sometimes for desert. We eat dinner together as a family, with DD mostly eating what we do. DH drinks coffee, wine and/beer. I drink coffee and tea.
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OP, this is really shocking to me - both the hands off and the hands on day.  I don't know what is in the protein bar and I don't know what a chocolate power waffle is, but both of of these meal plans look like someone who is on a diet.

You can buy already cooked bacon at trader joe's.  I agree with pp that you should offer more foods to her starting at breakfast.  If you are having fish for dinner, then feed her a lasagna (the trader joe's lasagna used to be pretty good) or enchiladas or SOMETHING. Not cheese cubes.

You and your dh obviously are very healthy eaters as adults- your dd is neither an adult, nor healthy.

I agree with pp who said to make her scrambled eggs, bacon, and either a waffle (again frozen waffles are fine) with syrup or toast with butter and jam or nutella. Send a bagel with thick cream cheese on both sides to school with her and tell her to eat that at snack time.

After school, give her a shake with real ice cream and a side of oven baked french fries or drive through McDonald's.  If she has dance, give her chocolate chip and peanut butter granola bars.

When she has steak, do an herb butter on top.  Ice cream for dessert every night.   
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