Do you give your dc a full evening meal after a day at nursery or just a snack?
DD's nursery give main meal at 11am (well actually they've all finished by then ) and tea (usually sandwiches) at 3pm. She moved up to the 1+ room from the baby room in July. She was actually 18 months old at the time. When she was in the baby room she always ate a full dinner at home in the evening with a yoghurt for pudding. She also had two or three baby biscuits or some raisins to follow to keep her occupied whilst I eat my dinner and she still usually asked for some of my dinner too. She's never been a fussy eater and has always eaten everything she's given.
Over the past few weeks she's regularly been refusing her dinner and am wondering whether she's now getting portions more appropriate to her age and doesn't need an evening meal or whether she's just getting fussy. She still asks for my dinner though, even when it's the same as hers, so unsure about the lack of hunger part. We don't always have the same food as some food I eat is unsuitable for her and she eats a wider variety of food than I do.
I went through a week of giving her just a slice of raisin toast, a yoghurt and some fruit after nursery but she didn't seem to sleep as well in the evening. Last week my parents were visiting and she ate a full dinner every night after nursery. Today was her first nursery day since they left and she was back to refusing dinner again. The only consolation is that she's suddenly starting drinking cow's milk after 6 months of refusing it.
It seems a long time to go from 3pm to 8:30am without food so just wondering what other parents do?
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What do you feed your dc after day at nursery?
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Issy42 · 08/09/2011 01:24
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