Is Anyone Else's Toddler...

[summer]

...eating them out of house and home?

I knew teenage boys ate a lot, but my two-year-old could give them a run for their money.

[dc2london]

Oh yes.

[ericalee27]

Yep. I am terrified for my boys to be teenagers, re: grocery bill

[pebbleann]

Yep. Here too! The "What to expect this year" paperwork that they gave me at his 2 yr checkup said that they eat like birds at this age. I wonder if they meant vultures!

[sagen]

No but my 8 year old son eat twice the amount I eat no joke.

[puck1182]

Mar 4, 2015 13:57:06 GMT -5 pebbleann said:

Yep. Here too! The "What to expect this year" paperwork that they gave me at his 2 yr checkup said that they eat like birds at this age. I wonder if they meant vultures!

Vulture is accurate. She will eat everything on her plate and then demand that we share ours with her. And the second she sees one of us has a snack, she's right there, trying to charm her way into getting her share of the snack.

Yesterday she ate 1.5 spinach enchiladas, a pile of black beans, a banana, and a bunch of graham crackers for dinner.

[pinkie]

No, our guy is a picky eater and doesn't eat much

[rosebean]

Yes. He eats a snack. Then breakfast. Then a snack.... Then lunch and snack and snack and snack and dinner. If I make pork chops, he will eat the whole thing on his own, plus noodles and his veggies. It's freaking nuts.

If he goes to daycare, he mooches a second snack off her husband when he gets home from work, then promptly asks for another snack when I get him home. Then eats dinner.

[poppy523]

Ugh! My peanut does eat like a bird! She could eat one noodle for lunch and call it a day... I feel like I am trying to feed her all day long. Luckily she scarves down smoothies like its nobodies business.

[crimsonandclover]

It depends on the day. Sometimes she'll eat a bite of banana and declare she's done. Other days she eats more than me and then wants a snack 2 minutes after she gets down.

[summer]

Case in point: we went to watch the local high school baseball game yesterday, just for fun. I took a ton of snacks for DS, just in case and of course he down most of it. There were some parents behind us, talking about how much their teenage boys eat and how crazy it was. Then one of them looked at me and said, "Wow! He sure is a good eater, isn't he?"

Yes. Yes he is.