What Are Your Meal Times?

[Baby Beluga]

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]

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

[bklsmum]

Mine are:

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

[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.

[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.

[Controlled Chaos]

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

[Crazy8]

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

[NillaWafers]

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

[Blackcat31]

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.

[Unregistered]

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

[LysesKids]

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)

[Unregistered]

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.

[stephanie]

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 )

[Second Home]

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 .

[Rachel]

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).