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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if they are not eating dinner, what are they eating.  everyone gets hungry/needs to eat.  if you are providing a lot of snacks, there is no need to eat dinner.

what do they like to eat?[/quote]

They don’t eat. They eat breakfast and lunch, and that’s it. No snacks when they get home. They just don’t eat. They’re not big eaters.[/quote]

OP my kid is like this. Eats breakfast, eats the lunch I pack for her (would not eat school lunch and would come home hungry so I figured out stuff to send her she would eat). She picks at dinner most nights. Every once in a while I'll make something she really likes and she'll eat like a horse with multiple helpings. But mostly she barely eats. This is after coming home from activities or after care where she might have had one health snack (like a banana and some cheese or something) but has not been snacking all afternoon.

I think I was like this as a kid too. Even when I was "really hungry" I'd feel full with very little food. And I was picky and if the meal being served was something not very appetizing (which was a lot of foods because of the pickiness), I'd lose my appetite and eat less. I'm a health adult with normal eating habits and a healthy weight. Turns out different bodies are different and this isn't a huge deal. I stress about it because when we host her friends they will often eat several multiples as much as she does (and they are also a healthy weight) but the pediatrician says kids are different and as long as she's growing, we don't have to stress too much. We make sure to offer certain foods with plenty of fat, iron, and protein a lot just to keep those basis covered (she eats plenty of fruit and grains so we dont' have to stress as much about those). Some dinners are just a glass of whole milk, bread with butter, and like four bites of a fruit or vegetable, because she won't eat anything else. I'm learning to let it go.[/quote]

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