Question

I ______ (eat) a lot of ice cream, when I ______(be) a child (find the past or past continuous tense)​

Answer 1

Answer:

I ate a lot of ice cream, when I was a child .

Answer 2

Answer: I ate a lot of ice cream, when I was a child. (simple past tense)

Here the sentence formed by using simple past tense makes more sense than in past continuous tense.