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  • Baby Beluga
    Daycare.com Member
    • Aug 2014
    • 3891

    What Are Your Meal Times?

    I apologize for all the questions today

    Would you mind sharing your meal times? I am considering making mine:

    7:30 - 8:00am, Breakfast
    11:00 - 11:30am, Lunch
    3:00 - 3:20pm, PM snack

    I am worried 3 hours is too long of a break between breakfast and lunch though. Thoughts?
  • Controlled Chaos
    Daycare.com Member
    • Jun 2014
    • 2108

    #2
    I feed my kids breakfast at 7am (not a daycare meal, its right when I open, no one typically arrives until 715-7:30)

    9am Breakfast/snack
    12 Lunch
    3 Snack

    Works for us

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    • bklsmum
      Daycare.com Member
      • Feb 2014
      • 565

      #3
      Mine are:

      Breakfast 7-8 (They eat as they arrive)
      AM snack 10:30
      Lunch 12-12:30
      PM Snack 3:30

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      • Josiegirl
        Daycare.com Member
        • Jun 2013
        • 10834

        #4
        Breakfast at 8-8:30 (seems so many of the dcks have 'a little something in the car over here')
        Lunch is creeping up earlier every day it seems, I fed them today at a little before 11:00
        Snack will be at 2ish.

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        • Blackcat31
          • Oct 2010
          • 36124

          #5
          A.M. snack 9:00 (its actually breakfast but parents don't know that)

          12:00 lunch

          3:30 P.M. snack



          Infants MUST arrive having been fully fed within 60 minutes of drop off.

          Meal times are strictly enforced....children must be present AT meal time to receive the meal. I don't hold meals for anyone for any reason.

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          • Controlled Chaos
            Daycare.com Member
            • Jun 2014
            • 2108

            #6
            Originally posted by Blackcat31
            A.M. snack 9:00 (its actually breakfast but parents don't know that)

            12:00 lunch

            3:30 P.M. snack



            Infants MUST arrive having been fully fed within 60 minutes of drop off.

            Meal times are strictly enforced....children must be present AT meal time to receive the meal. I don't hold meals for anyone for any reason.


            My PM snack is in reality 3:30, but we can't have meals scheduled more than 3 hours apart, so I have to have snack on their little tables ready to go at 3pm, but by the time they wake up, get changed, hands washed and at the table, its 3:30. Its dumb, I'm always worried about a food program visit right at the end of nap on a day the kids sleep late...but I'm not waking them up early just because its been too long since they are lunch

            Sorry for the OT rant

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            • Crazy8
              Daycare.com Member
              • Jun 2011
              • 2769

              #7
              Breakfast is eaten at home - I don't have any arrivals before 8-8:30 right now.
              9:15 - AM Snack
              12:00 - Lunch
              3:30 - PM Snack

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              • NillaWafers
                Daycare.com Member
                • Oct 2014
                • 593

                #8
                8am - Breakfast
                12pm- Lunch
                3pm - PM Snack

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                • Blackcat31
                  • Oct 2010
                  • 36124

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Controlled Chaos


                  My PM snack is in reality 3:30, but we can't have meals scheduled more than 3 hours apart, so I have to have snack on their little tables ready to go at 3pm, but by the time they wake up, get changed, hands washed and at the table, its 3:30. Its dumb, I'm always worried about a food program visit right at the end of nap on a day the kids sleep late...but I'm not waking them up early just because its been too long since they are lunch

                  Sorry for the OT rant
                  My food program agency allows/encourages us to list meal times as 11:30-12:30 verses just saying 12:00.

                  So technically my meal times are listed as I posted previously with 30 minutes added on to the beginning and end times, even though I strive to serve AT the time I list in my handbook.

                  So parents read that A.M. snack is 9:00 but the food program lists my morning snack as 8:30-9:30.

                  That way if my food program rep shows up any time within that hour, I am good.

                  It also helps with the 3 hour meal spread rule.

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                  • Unregistered

                    #10
                    Breakfasts 8:30, lunch 11:30 -12:30 snack 3:30 dinner 6:30

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                    • LysesKids
                      Daycare.com Member
                      • May 2014
                      • 2836

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Josiegirl
                      Breakfast at 8-8:30 (seems so many of the dcks have 'a little something in the car over here')
                      Lunch is creeping up earlier every day it seems, I fed them today at a little before 11:00
                      Snack will be at 2ish.
                      You sound like me... little bit & little miss are hungry by 8:30a, so breakfast snack - all mine are 2 & under... most want to eat by 11am again, then 2pm snack... little miss gets an extra treat at 4:30 (oldest & here til 5:30-6pm)

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                      • Unregistered

                        #12
                        Morning snack 9:30
                        Lunch 12:00
                        Afternoon snack 3:15

                        Everyone is here between 7:40 and 8:00 and gone by 4:15 and 5:00.

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                        • stephanie
                          Daycare.com Member
                          • Mar 2015
                          • 62

                          #13
                          Breakfast: 8:30-9:00 (my center opens at 7:30)
                          Lunch: 11:30-12
                          Snack: 3-3:30 (closer to 3:15 since kids are just waking up and need to get hands washed, etc., but our schedule says 3 )

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                          • Second Home
                            Daycare.com Member
                            • Jan 2014
                            • 1567

                            #14
                            Breakfast 7:00
                            morning snack 9:00
                            Lunch 12:00
                            afternoon snack 3:00

                            we must feed children at least every 3 hours per the regs , so this is the schedule that fits for me .

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                            • Rachel
                              Daycare.com Member
                              • Apr 2010
                              • 605

                              #15
                              Breakfast 8:30, Lunch 12:00 (usually I wind up serving it earlier, around 11:30), Snack when they get up at 3:00. We have to have breakfast and lunch at least 3.5 hours apart by our rules which is why lunch is "officially" at 12 even though it's usually served around 11:40 (more because the kids are tired than because they are starving).

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