poor eater

Four mothers said that they felt their child was too dependent and one mother considered her child a poor eater.

Poor eaters tended to be a little shorter and weigh a little less than the others.

My adoptive mother too has often alluded to my being a "poor eater" from the beginning.

One difference was found between the groups: the poor eaters got more of their calories from snacks than from meals.

Exasperated because he was such a poor eater, I held a banana out for him to nibble as he swung.

Seniors are notoriously poor eaters.

You're a poor eater."

Apparently not, say Finnish researchers who found few meaningful differences between the diets of children described by their parents as poor eaters and those of other children.

Children whose parents said they ate too little "sometimes" or "often" were classified as poor eaters (the definition included picky eaters and children who did not eat a lot).

He was not a poor eater, but food interested him little, and he knew perfectly well that he could have gone without the crusty white bread, could have satisfied himself with the other.