Convicted killer Tim Jones Jr. starts each day with a hearty breakfast on Death Row – at least on paper.

The father who murdered his 5 children in their Red Bank home in 2014 gets better food and treatment than what many testified in court he provided his own kids.

Timothy Ray Jones Jr. was sentenced to death after being convicted by a Lexington County jury in the brutal slayings of his children — Merah, 8; Elias, 7; Nahtahn, 6; Gabriel, 2 and Elaine (Abigail), 1 — Aug. 28, 2014.

Testimony from teachers and caregivers said Nahtahn often appeared hungry and dirty and was severely underweight for his age.

Testimony also included his abuse of the children – mentally and physically.

Nahtahn was the first child killed during a beating and strenuous physical exertion doled out by his father. The other 4 were strangled.

Jones discarded their bodies in trash bags off a logging road in rural Alabama.

The SC Department of Corrections said Jones is fed what other inmates at Kirkland Correctional Institution get:

• Breakfast – Grits, eggs, biscuits, juice.

• Lunch – A meat, starch, vegetable, bread and drink. Examples would be turkey, rice and gravy, a vegetable and juice or tea.

• Supper – Meat, starch, 2 vegetables (sometimes 1 hot and 1 cold), roll and drink. Examples would be spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, salad, bread, cake and juice or tea.

Some of the food is grown and produced at SCDOC farms, including eggs, milk, corn meal, grits, vegetables in season and grape and apple juice drinks.

He eats alone in his cell on Death Row, SC’s most secure maximum security unit.

When and if his final meal comes on Death Row, he may request what he would like to eat, and the prison will try to accommodate the request, a SCDOC spokesperson said. That meal will usually be prepared in the prison.