I wasn't prepared to have to up the grocery budget so much with a 3 1/2 year old and a 16 month old. Nor was a prepared to have to order them each their own kids meal when we go somewhere... like Jason's Deli where Riley will down a whole grilled cheese sandwich and fruit and then I have to start making trips to the salad bar for him, or in some cases a grown up meal, like Chick-fil-a where they eat EIGHT chicken nuggets a piece. I am thankful they are fruit eaters. I am thankful that our food does not go to waste, but woah.... we are eating a lot of food over here and mainly because of that little guy pictured up there. I went to the grocery store last Saturday afternoon...exactly one week ago. In one week we consumed 15 pears, 14 bananas, 3 containers of blueberries, and 2 one pound containers of strawberries....and that's just the fruit department. Little man eats more than I do. He yells at me all day long for food. I have to keep the tray on his highchair or he crawls up in it and calls out for food. He cries and stands on my feet while I cut up his food. He always thinks he's starving. Sometimes I will still buy the little containers of baby food for him and he always wants two and I just open the thing and put a straw in it and he literally inhales it in 30 seconds and then we move on to the next one. Same thing with the squeeze yogurt. It's embarrassing. Here is a menu for him on a typical day. Sometimes I just have to cut him off. I'm not sure how we will afford him as a teenager, but oh how I love my hungry little man. :)
Breakfast:
Whole Banana (I have to peel it and hold it in the peel at the very bottom and let him take it out or he refuses to eat it and it can't break or he won't eat it)
bowl of oatmeal
plateful (were talking salad plate size completely full) of stawberries and blueberries
sometimes dry cereal if he's not full
Lunch:
Whole grilled cheese (whole thing even the crust)
more blueberries
squeeze yogurt (sometimes 2)
whole pear (which he will not accept if I cut up, has to be whole, just peeled, and he eats it down to the seeds and then i have to snatch it)
snack:
dry cereal or sometimes crackers
banana
dinner
two chicken tenders
beans
fruit
Plus he drinks whole milk
4 comments:
O.k, if he were sumo sized I might be a teeny concerned that he does have that can't stop eating disease. But he looks like a healthy happy little boy, just a hungry one :)
BUT, my perception is somewhat skewed considering we over hear at the Swinney house are on the opposite end of that spectrum. Mia and Jules eat nothing. And when they say they want a snack and I offer them 5 different fruits with no other options...they choose to not eat. *Sigh*
I feel your grocery bill. Brayden eats like that also. I am very scared for the teenage years. They will have to get a job in high school just to support their eating habits, lol. Weird about the banana thing, huh. Brayden is the same way, he does that with string cheese, and cereal bars also. He will only eat stuff cut up if he has asks for me to cut it up. If I peel and cut up an apple for him and he didn't ask me to do it, he refuses to it it and says whole, whole.
He does keep you busy just preparing food for him and cleaning the floor under his high chair. I've never seen anything like it and I've kept alot of children here!
Even more hilarious!! He's an eating machine. HaHa
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