What times do you serve meals?

[hwichlaz]

Breakfast 7am and 830am
Mini Snack 10am
Lunch 12pm
Snack 330pm
Dinner 630 pm

[LoraJenkins]

I do not serve breakfast. Here is my meal schedule:

9 am: morning snack
12 pm: lunch
3 pm: afternoon snack

[melilley]

I serve:
B until 8:30 - most eat at 8
S 9:30
L 11:30/12 depending on what we are doing
S 3/3:30

It seems like a lot but my group will eat at every meal time!

[TaylorTots]

7:20-8:00 Arrival/Breakfast
9:20-9:40 AM Snack
11:20-11:50 Lunch
2:15 Non-School Ager PM Snack
3:10 School Agers PM Snack

I split up my PM Snack as it gives my two school agers quiet time together to talk and wind down when they get here -- which is very needed.

[Tdhmom]

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.

[Cradle2crayons]

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...

WHEW... Lol

[taylorw1210]

I do not serve breakfast, but the parents are welcome to bring breakfast and I will serve it to the child upon arrival.

Most of my kids arrive between 7-8am.

I serve a large snack at 8:30/9.
Lunch at 11:00.
Another large snack at 3:00.

And then the kiddos are gone between 4:30-5pm.

[Crazy8]

Bfast - 8:00
Snack - 9:30
Lunch - 12:00
Snack - 3:30

[Angelsj]

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

[Cradle2crayons]

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!!

[spinnymarie]

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.