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I just changed my meal times--I'll be doing lunch around 11/11:15 and then outside until bus time @12:10, then back home for naps at 12:30....snack will be at 3:45/4 as usual and will be substantial, including all the components of dinner, but i'll still call it snack.
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I don't do dinner but I do have one DCK that is here til 6:15-6:30ish a 3 days a week (everyone else is gone by 530) so he does occasionally eat dinner with us if I have it made. His mom would prefer I feed him but I don't always because he's not usually hungry (we have snack @4-4:30) and I feel like I'm just wasting the food. He'll sit with us at the table and always gets food but rarely eats it so I've stopped going out of my way to have dinner ready before 6:45ish (DH gets home at 6-615ish so it's not unusual for us to eat that late even when DCB isn't here).
DCM gets a bit passive aggressive ("I guess he'll just starve tonight as I won't be able to make dinner til 8pm," they only live 10mins away) sometimes but I just tell her she's welcome to bring something from home that I'll give him in the evenings and remind her that he gets offered a snack @ 6 (which he also he never eats). She always declines to bring something as she knows he doesn't eat it. When she changed to this shift I made it clear I wouldn't be doing dinner, if I did it was a courtesy not a requirement and not all the time.Comment
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The every three hours thing really stinks. No, they don't eat it all. If I serve morning snack, noone eats lunch. I have kids there 12 hour days, so they have to be fed four times. Of course, they also spend at least 4 of those 12 hours sleeping (morning and nap). It is one of my bigger gripes.
As to serving snack at 2 - I have all older kids (Youngest is 3) and they take a pretty short nap (1 1/2 - 2 hours) and we don't lay down until 2. Snack is JUST before it.
I'm just curious - what does licensing say about meals?
When my kids came at 6:30 and left at 4:30 everything worked much better......Comment
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After reading some stuff on here and talking to my food program I now serve "dinner" aka afternoon snack at lets say 4 but sometimes it is 3:30
I do breakfast if they arrive before 9 and count that as am snack. Lunch is at 11ish. I aim for 11 but it has been closer to 11:30 lately. They nap from 12 ish until 3. By the time they are all up, diapered etc we have afternoon snack "dinner" for the food program. I have one little guy who is here some days until 6:30 so he gets "real dinner" around 5:45. He has a 40 minute drive home so I don't want him starving!
breakfast "am snack" is usually cereal, banana and milk.Comment
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I have some children here until 6:00 (they pay to stay late) and I do not serve dinner.Comment
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WI center here too.
Breakfast 8:00
a.m. snack 10:00
Lunch 12:00
p.m. snack 3:00
Used to serve dinner...no more. I'm not reimbursed for the a.m. snack....that's okay. I like to give an a.m. snack. Never have problems with kids not eating tho.Comment
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Just looked at my reimbursment info. There is about a one hundred dollar difference for me (mwf 3 kids, t,th 6 kids) changing my meal plan from Breakfast, lunch, pm snack to am snack, lunch, dinner and the only thing I changed in what I feed is adding a vegie to pm snack to make it dinner because I had always fed then protien, grain and fruit anyway. Anyway, just thought I would throw that out there. (oh I didn't have one single parent say oh no, don't feed my kidlet a vegie! and no one has said that it has effected their dinner at home)Comment
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