Breakfast is 8am
Lunch is 11am
And snack is 2:10pm
All my kiddos (my own and dck's) eat pretty early dinners so late snacks never work for us. And I've never done morning snack...no one would eat lunch if I did, we have to take preschool at 12:10, so later lunch doesn't work for us either.
I serve breakfast at 7:00, am snack at 10:00, lunch at 12:30, pm snack at 3:30, supper at 6:00 and pm snack at 8:00.
I serve a dck at almost every meal and snack because I have one here m-f at 6:30 am, her and two more here some days at snack and lunch... Then at least three here for pm snack... Three here for supper... And three here for pm snack...
I just told my parents that I am serving a LARGE snack at 9:00 and if they felt their child needed to eat before then, they needed to feed them BEFORE arrival.
Serving breakfast WHILE tending to parents arriving and dropping off was too much chaos. I also had kids that arrived right as breakfast was getting over that would want to eat and if I served them, then my earliest arrivals that had arrived much earlier would want to eat again.... Ugh! It just got to be too hard.
Now I just tell my parents that my 9:00 snack DOES meet the food program requirements as a breakfast but it would not be served until 9:00 a.m. so that everyone was already here and I could give the kids my undivided attention during this time.
NO parent had issues with it at all.
This is here exactly. Too much chaos. I call it breakfast, but I tell the parents it is at 9am, not before. So if your child is going to be hungry before then, feed them.
Lunch is 11:00 to 12:00 depending on the day (Wed runs late due to school issues)
Snack is 2:30-3:00 approximately
Supper is at 5:30
I think I may change up my schedule this summer because my two won't be up that early for breakfast and I'll only have one dcg here during that time... I'm writing down so ideas from you guys.. Thanks!!
This is great, thanks.
We tried it out today, eating breakfast later, at 8:00ish, lunch at 11:00 and here we are at 2:30 about to have a snack!
Glad to see this way works well for others, it seems like parents will feed their kids at least a cheese stick before they get here if they are too hungry.
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