How Many Snacks Per Day do You Serve?

[Unregistered]

My current schedule for meals is:

8:30 - Snack

11:30 - Lunch

3:30 - Snack

Pm snack is later because school gets out at 3 and I don't want to do 2 pm snack times.

Same here!

[Kiki]

Breakfast: 9-9:30
Lunch: 12-12:30
Snack: 3:15-3:30

Snacks are sometimes later here, it depends on when they all wake up from their naps. I only have on child before 8:30, and she eats whatever fruit I'm eating with my breakfast while she waits for the real breakfast.

[GotKids]

breakfast, lunch, and 2 snacks. Kiddo's start showing up at 6 am and leave by 6 pm

[dave4him]

You don't want to know

[juliebug]

8am breakfast
11:30 lunch
3:15 snack

[Neekie]

Am snack/breakfast (I call it a snack to make the parents feed the kids at home but I serve according to breakfast guidelines)

Lunch

PM snack

LOL I do that very same thing!

[My3cents]

You don't want to know

What kind of an answer is this?

I am reading along to see what everyone does for meal times and I come across "You don't want to know" ugh!

[My3cents]

I serve one snack a day. This works great for me.

Breakfast- 7:45ish
Lunch-11:30ish
PM snack 3-3:30ish

[Crazy8]

Breakfast (brought from home) by 8am
AM snack - about 9:30
Lunch (brought from home) - 12:00pm
PM snack - 3:30ish (right after nap, diapers, etc.)

I have in my contract that child must eat breakfast at home if not arriving by 8am but if all the kids who eat here are earlier we will eat earlier.

I don't do the meal plan either - I just take the standard "snack" deduction on my taxes. Less paperwork, less work preparing meals and probably still same/close amount of money!

[momma2girls]

I actually went away from serving breakfast about 5 yrs. ago. I didn't have time to cook or serve breakfast, when I had 3 or 4 families coming in between 7:30-8:00. Then I have 2 children of my own to make sure they were dressed, fed and ready to leave for school. Then I had another daycare girl I had to get ready for her ride to preschool at 8:30. I would serve breakfast at 9:00 or after. So I serve an am snack at 9 or 9:30, or if you call it breakfast. 11:30-12:00 dinner
3:30 pm snack

[crunchymama]

Breakfast at 9am
Lunch at 12 noon
PM Snack at 3pm
Dinner at 6pm
Eve Snack at 9pm

[DCMom]

Breakfast 8-8:30

Lunch 11:30

Snack 3:00

I sometimes will serve a morning snack if we are going to the park or having a water day. Then lunch gets pushed back to 12:00ish or later. Of course, this doesn't include all the popsicles and such we go thru with all the heat this summer!

[Lucy]

My Summer schedule is a bit different than the school year. During the summer:

Breakfast about 8:15

Lunch about 11:30

Snack about 3:00


For the ones that stay the latest (5:30) -- at about 5:00 I will give them a few grapes, or a quarter of a banana just to hold them over. Probably could get away with not, but they are starting to complain of hunger, and I'm a softie. But I don't want to give too much so that they don't eat their dinner.

[MaritimeMummy]

I do 2 snacks. One at 9am and one at 3pm. If the child comes very early or stay very late, the parents know they have to send breakfast and a late afternoon snack. I have one little guy who comes at 6:30am and leaves at anywhere between 5:30-6pm, he comes with breakfast and "supper" every day.

[SquirrellyMama]

Breakfast 8-8:30

Lunch 11:30

Snack 3:00

I sometimes will serve a morning snack if we are going to the park or having a water day. Then lunch gets pushed back to 12:00ish or later. Of course, this doesn't include all the popsicles and such we go thru with all the heat this summer!

This is what I do except lunch can be anywhere from 11am-12:30pm depending on what we do in the morning. Kids are here from 7:45a-5pm. In the fall it will be 7:30am-5:30m.

Kelly