Breakfast

[daycare]

I prefer that all of my kids come for breakfast and eat with us as a group. This way I dont have kids that ate at all different times and getting hungry before our snack time.

I have a cut off time and if you don't meet it you don't get to join us. YOu then have to be here fully fed before class time starts.

I tell parents that if everyone eats at different times, then we have children wanting to eat at different times which is not possible. I have ages 20 months and up, so this works for my group.

[Blackcat31]

How do you claim dinner?! I would love to do that with my PM snack! I have school kids and they are HUNGRY when they get back. I feel like I would rather do a "meal" then have kids asking for more after just a snack.

I know you aren't asking me but if I serve all the components of lunch/supper AT or AFTER 4:00, I can claim it as a dinner instead of afternoon snack.

It's the exact same thing in the morning for a.m. snack. I serve all the required components and claim it as breakfast but I call it "morning snack" for parent purposes.

[jenboo]

Snack at nine. Lunch at noon. Big snack (that is actually a FP considered dinner) after nap, diapers and potty in the afternoon. I ready the plates at nap. And they go from nap to potty to table.

How do you claim dinner?! I would love to do that with my PM snack! I have school kids and they are HUNGRY when they get back. I feel like I would rather do a "meal" then have kids asking for more after just a snack.

I wanted to do this too because my kids are so hungry after nap. My food program rep said dinner can't be claimed before 6pm

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

Today I had 11/12 kids here by 8:30 and served all of them breakfast (drop off time is between 8:00-9:00 am).

I do a REALLY easy breakfast (main component is a choice between organic oatmeal with honey, plain organic "cheerios," or rice chex) and they all made their choices and told me if they wanted a little bit or a lot of breakfast. Most wanted a lot of the main component and then skipped the fruit because they just wanted to go play. But, at least all were fed something other than nothing/candy/cheetos/donuts/etc.