Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video I thought I would do a eating my son's
diet for the day video. Because I saw someone else do this on YouTube and I thought it was
so funny and so good that I would give it a go, so I'm going to eat exactly what my
toddler eats. Jackson, my son, he's two and a half, and he has quite a good appetite,
but I don't know if it's enough for an adult. But yeah, I'm just going to eat exactly what
he eats, the same portions, the same food. I'm also going to give him a little bit more
freedom with what he eats in that I'm going to ask him what he'd actually like, because
I think that would be interesting as well. Within reason, obviously.
And yeah, I just think this would be fun, I think it'll be interesting to see what I
think of the food he eats, how I feel on the food he eats, and I think it'll be more in
my interest to encourage him to eat. Obviously I do that anyway. But if it will literally
benefit how much I'm also going to eat, I think it will be even more in my interest.
So yeah, I hope you like this video. If you're new to my channel, I would love for you to
subscribe and stick around. I post three videos a week, and I'd love to have you as a viewer.
But now, let's see what he wanted for breakfast.
Good morning guys, we're now going to have some breakfast. Jackson is going to have a
little bit more freedom than normal and I am going to ask him what he ideally would
like for breakfast. As you can see, he's already eating a croissant. We left these out on the
counter. So he's grabbed one of those straightaway, and it is about a quarter to 7:00, 20 to 7:00,
this is about the time when we come down for breakfast.
He normally has the same thing every day, and this is probably his best meal of the
day. Like he eats a lot of breakfast, don't you? Jackson, what would you like for breakfast?
This.
Just this?
Jam.
With jam?
No.
You want a croissant with jam?
No.
Would you like any Cheerios?
No. Shopping.
He wants shopping. Would you like a pancake?
Shopping.
He loves a protein pancake, and I was really hoping he'd have that, so that I could have
that. Every morning Jackson has fresh fruit as well.
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So I just made him strawberries, I've just done-
I want it inside the cone.
You want it inside the cone. In the ice cream cone. Oh! So yeah, I've just done us three
strawberries each. I'm pretty confident he'll eat all of these and then ask me for more,
because that's what he normally does. We also got this really cute little tiny animal forks
for his little Bento lunch box lately, and he likes to eat his fruit using them, so that's
what we're going to use.
Mmm. Jackson is just eating the croissant and strawberries. I'm actually going to wait
and see how much of that he eats, and copy what he's eaten. But in the meantime I'm also
going to make him a protein pancake, because I just don't feel like that is enough for
either of us until lunch time.
Ahhh! Ahhh!
So, he's running. Yeah. So I'm making it out of protein pancake mix. We make this up in
bulk and then put it in the fridge. It consists of eggs, banana, baking powder, and almond
butter. It's a nice little protein thing for the morning. And they have it with maple syrup,
they really love it, and my boys, they don't love eating omelets or anything but they really
like eating these eggy pancakes. So I'm going to make one for us, and just really hope that
he eats that.
Jackson ate all of his strawberries and now he's taking my plate, so that's six strawberries
in total.
So here are the pancakes. And I'm just going to add a little bit of maple syrup, because
he likes that.
Oh good, he's eating it! Because I want to eat it.
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So he basically ate a bite off of each end of this croissant, loads of strawberries,
and now he's eating the protein pancake as well. I am going to allow myself coffee and
any drinks that I want, just to get me through the day. He doesn't eat those. But, bless
you.
Bless you.
That's my pancake.
No, mine.
That's my one.
Mine.
I just went off to get another battery for the camera.
My pancake.
And I came back and he's in my spot. Eating my pancake. Okay, so Jackson ate so many strawberries
that I thought it was safe to make some up for me. And he started on mine. It's funny,
because I don't really fancy loads of strawberries first thing.
I got strawberries.
You got strawberries. Good boy. Are they your favorite?
Mine. My strawberries.
Mommy.
Oh my gosh, he's already eaten six strawberries.
I had to eat my croissant. Dry. One bite. One, two, three, four, five six. So Jackson's
had about six bites of his pancake. And now he just wants to play with his camera.
Bit like mommy.
Mommy, I look like this.
Like me. He's just logging, I got him a little kids camera because he was always stealing
my real one. So he's got that. So he's had six bites, so I'm going to have six bites
and all of these strawberries.
There you are, Jackson.
Okay, so that is breakfast. He had half a protein pancake, a few bites out of a croissant,
and loads of strawberries. I did also offer him yogurt, but he didn't want that, but I
was actually kind of relieved. I'm so full up. It didn't look like much, but actually
I feel really heavy because in the morning for me I'd normally just have a little bit
of oatmeal or a little protein shake, something quite small with my coffee. So I'm feeling
a bit bloated.
All right, it's about 10:00 now, just after 10:00, and Jackson wanted a snack. So he asked
for, what's this?
Hummus.
Hummus. And breadsticks. So we've got this little colorful breadsticks, I've talked about
them in loads of other videos.
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Yeah. They come in different colors, and he really likes them. Hummus? So I quite like
the sound of this snack.
Yeah, these little breadsticks are quite small. They're low in salt, they are vegan, there's
no nasties. He's eating mine. There's no junk in them. I've just noticed he's actually only
licking the hummus off of them at the moment. Are you not going to eat the real things?
Oh, was that too much. I've got some water as well, so we're just going to drink that,
eat this, and then we might go out on like, a little outing or something.
He's only licking the hummus. So I have to just lick that off.
[inaudible 00:07:06] do you want a spoon?
It's just not the same. Mmm. Hmm. Come on. Eat the breadstick. That's it. Yay! Drinking
your water. Yeah.
I'm better.
You're better now. You needed that. Daddy's in the background.
Hummus.
Crunch? Yay! Ate some. Crunch.
What's your favorite food?
Hummus.
It always has been, you know?
I'm just making Jackson's lunch for when we go out so I'm making two of them, one for
him, one for me. While I was making his cheese sandwich he wanted a piece of the cheese so
he's eating that now. So I've also cut myself one. Mmm. I actually love cheese. I need to
put some fruit in the lunch, and I was like, oh, I don't really like blueberries, but they
are Jackson's favorite, and [Mack 00:08:07] was like, you know, "Put the blueberries in,"
so I've put them in.
I have packed the cheese sandwiches that I talked about, got a few mini cheddars, some
Soreen loaf, a little satsuma, and some blueberries, and I've done the same for myself. I haven't
put a pudding in because Jackson is so young, like, for the big boys I'll put a few little
sweets in this bit. But Jackson's so young that he would just literally eat the sweets
first, he wouldn't wait. So I think we'll just get him some sort of pudding when we're
out.
Okay.
Right, so, on our way out now and it's a beautiful day and I must admit at the moment I'm feeling
okay in terms of hunger. I'm pretty full, actually. I've still been drinking more water
than him and I've had another coffee, because I'm going to have drinks as normal. The meal
I'm probably the most worried about is dinner because Jackson tends to eat his best at the
beginning of the day. He normally has like, two out of three really good meals and then
dinner he can maybe sometimes not be that bothered about. So we'll see how that goes,
but yeah, we're on our way to a farm now. Got our packed lunches.
We've got them in the house.
[inaudible 00:09:19] ribbit.
Yeah.
Ribbit.
Oh.
What have you found, Jackson?
They're sleeping with their eyes open.
They're dead.
Are they sleeping?
Hello.
We're just looking at some little animals and the way that they sleep is basically what
our bed looks like at night. With all the kids coming in. Look! They all sleep on top
of each other to keep warm.
Hi fishes.
That's really cool.
Oh good. What color are they?
Lellow.
Hello. This guy's been in here for ages. Don't go in there, buddy. Don't go in there. That's
the snake. No.
One two. I see chicken.
This one's escaped.
How's he got out?
So cute.
I see chicken. Over there. Chicken. Sad.
He's sad? He's not sad, he's happy. Oh, he's jumping in. Hello.
So it's lunchtime now, it's about 12:30, and just looking at what he's going to have. Has
his blueberries, wants his satsuma. I'm putting that out so hopefully he east it. Yeah. We'll
see. Okay. There you go. You're actually just eating both. Can I have some then?
Mine, mine.
Oh. So far he's only eating blueberries and moving things around a lot. He wanted me to
open the Soreen loaf. So I must admit I don't really eat this, it's malt loaf. So if he
eats some, I'll try it. Are you going to eat it?
So Jackson has eaten every single blueberry and I was waiting for him to start on mine,
but now he's eating, well he's trying to eat all of mine as well, so. Cheers. Well that's
quite nice.
Right so we've left the [soft play 00:11:37] now and we're on our way home. The most embarrassing
thing happened when we were there. Jackson and I were sat there eating our lunch as you
will have seen because I was filming some of it. And one of the ladies that worked there
came over and she was like, "Oh, hi, you can't have packed lunches in here. Like, you can
have them outside but not here." And initially I was like, "That's bad, you can't even bring
like, a lunch for your toddler?" Because normally we would bring a lunch for him just in case
he didn't like the food on the menu or whatever. But she wasn't talking about him, she was
talking about me! Because I was obviously eating a child's lunch out of a child's lunchbox.
So embarrassing. But yeah, didn't click for a little bit, and then I was like, "Oh my
god, I'm so embarrassed."
So then we obviously put our lunches away. Even Jackson's. He was kind of done anyway.
And then we got him a little pack of like, gingerbread biscuits. But I didn't get a pack
for me, because it just feels like anything that he's eating and then I'm eating at the
same time, he'll then eat it as well. So I didn't want to get two packs of it. So I've
kind of cheated because I didn't have the gingerbread men, but I did have half a cheese
sandwich, like just one of those small like, finger things. Because I was starving. But
yeah, so embarrassing. I didn't even think about taking a packed lunch in for an adult.
So anyway, I'll be never going there again. And now we're on our way home. It's about
2:00, so we're just going to chill out, pick up the big boys from school, and then think
about dinner.
So I'll show you what he did actually eat. As I said, he ate all the blueberries and
pretty much all of my blueberries. He made me open the orange but hasn't touched it.
I think he had like one piece. Then he ate like, a big bite out of the Soreen loaf. Quite
a few of the mini cheddars, there's just three left, and one of these sandwich fingers.
So we're back from the farm and my husband has just gone to get the two older boys from
school and take them to swimming. It is about 3:30 now and he wanted a snack, so I've given
him his lunchbox again because there's still all that satsuma in there, bit of Soreen and
the crackers, so he's eating the satsuma. He just loves fruit. Like, that's what he
always wants to eat. So I think I'm going to have a satsuma now.
Orange.
Mmm, yummy.
Orange.
That is so good.
Orange.
Mmm.
Orange.
Ah. Going to be, we're playing tigers. Ra! Come on. Let's go.
Yeah!
Oh!
Right, so I'm just going to start the wedges because they take about 30 minutes. So I've
got the potatoes out, all you do is cut them up and put some oil and salt on them. It's
that easy. But I wanted to show you this. Look, Caleb has drawn all over one of the
potatoes because he is studying the super potato at school. So he's made his own little
super potato. So I don't think I'm going to use that one. I'll use that for like, if I
peel it and mash it or something.
For Jackson's dinner he's having one whole sausage cut up, a big piece of broccoli cut
up into four, about three wedges cut up because they are so hot, and then he doesn't have
ketchup or anything like that but he does really like beans, so I'm going to give him
this, see how much he eats before I eat my dinner.
For dinner I also always give the boys a big glass of milk to try and just get that bit
more calcium into them. I'm going to give him that as well and I guess I'm going to
have to drink milk with dinner.
While I've got you I thought I'd show you how I cut the boys' sausages up now. I heard
this heartbreaking story about a boy who choked on sausages at school, and he didn't make
it. It was just so, so sad. And I know like, so many things we have to worry about as parents,
but it's just like, a little thing that I've been doing. So if you cut the sausage down
the middle like that and then cut it like that, rather than just cutting it into circles.
Because it was that that got lodged in his throat. So that's just something that I do,
especially for like, Jackson's age, he's so very young.
I just get really nervous when it comes to anything like grapes, marshmallows, sausages,
so I thought I'd share that.
Yeah, he's eating the sausage! Good news for me guys, Jackson's on his second sausage.
He ate the first one all up, he's had about one teaspoon of beans as well. No wedges,
no broccoli, but he's on his second sausage.
I'm eating sausage.
So he's really enjoying that, aren't you? Are you going to have some broccoli?
No.
No? Just sausage. Right, so I'm just going to sit down to my delicious dinner. Got two
sausages, some beans, and one piece of broccoli because Jackson's had a little bit of broccoli.
And got my milk as well. So we're going to have this, are we?
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To be honest, it could be worse, like if he's actually, I think today's been quite a good
day in terms of dinner.
I want milk.
Oh, of course you want my milk. You're always stealing my stuff. Shall I have this one then?
That better? Yep.
He's going to have a glass of wine before bed as well, isn't he?
Yeah, I think he's going to have a glass of wine as well. And I'm going to need to have
one.
Jackson's all done his dinner. He hasn't had much more than what I already showed you,
but because he did try and have his broccoli, he had a whole piece, he's going to get pudding
and I've got these Club bars for the boys. They're like these little mint bars, they're
not very big, but I'm pretty sure he's going to eat all of this. If he does, I'm going
to save mine for once they're all in bed, have it with coffee or a tea.
Right, so Jackson's just gone to bed, so I think I'm going to end the vlog here because
he won't be eating any more now that he's asleep. I'm not going to lie, I've had about
four of those wedges as well because I was still a little bit hungry. But I hope you
enjoyed this video, it was really fun to film, and actually really interesting because if
you put together everything that your toddler eats, it is actually quite a lot. I mean I
think I had a good day today in terms of his appetite was very good today. So he did eat
quite a good amount for him. But because they snack a lot, so like he has a morning snack
and an afternoon snack, you know, put it all together it's like five little meals, like
I was really stuffed after the hummus and breadsticks this morning at 10:00.
So yeah, it's just been interesting and there was like, a few foods I found that I didn't
really want to offer him because I didn't want to eat them. I think that's quite interesting
as well, like he really likes yogurt bits in fruit, and I didn't really want to have
those. And he likes Petits Filous as well but I didn't really offer him one as much
as I normally would because I thought, "I don't want to eat that." So yeah, I don't
know, it was just like, quite interesting. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, give it
a thumbs up. I could always do what my son Caleb eats, who's five, and what my son Frazier
eats, who's eight. If you like this kind of thing. But yeah, thanks so much for watching
and I'll see you in my next one! Bye guys!