How many meals do you/your DC eat a day?

[BlowDryRat]

My cousin is a Dutch school teacher and her class are learning about English culture. I said it might be fun to have a clock with the different English meal times:

• breakfast
• elevenses
• lunch
• afternoon tea
• dinner
• supper
• cocoa
• (kids at sleepovers of peckish adults before bed) midnight snack

...like hobbits. She can't get her head around how much food that is.

Which got me wondering... How many of these meals do you and your kids have on a regular basis? My DC would normally have a snack at school mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Maybe cocoa sometimes but 'high tea' rather than dinner and supper.

We just have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I sometimes call a work zoom at 11 elevenses and have a biscuit if that helps?

Breakfast lunch and dinner, apart from high days and holidays...

Breakfast, lunch dinner and supper.

Breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner and some biscuits before bed

This reminds me of the brilliant 'Look Around You', for those old enough to remember it.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, with the odd small snack (biscuit, piece of fruit etc) here and there.

Breakfast lunch and dinner, plus a couple of small snacks (piece of fruit or a biscuit) but I wouldn't class those as meals.

Or sometimes at the weekend brunch, afternoon tea (in other words cake) and dinner.

Well in "normal times" I would have said just 3 a day but since Covid it's about 127 meals a day, 7 days a week ok maybe not that many but certainly all you've listed in your OP! I am so fed up shopping prepping cooking and cleaning up, joy to mention having to keep tabs on what's needed all the time. We have never eaten as much as we have this past year. It is shocking when I think about it so I try not to think about it

Breakfast, mid morning snack of fruit, lunch, supper. Sometimes a light snack between lunch and supper, sometimes a snack before bed (me).

I wouldn't class the snacks as a meal. It's just a piece of fruit.

Sometimes my DC have s glad of milk before bed. Again I wouldn't class that as a meal.

breakfast lunch and dinner - maybe a snack with a glass of wine before dinnner

Homeschooling primary aged kids.

For DC:

7am - breakfast.

10am - a fruit

12pm - lunch

4pm - snack (normally fruit sometimes a soreen etc)

6.30pm - dinner.

Me:

1pm lunch

6:30pm dinner

(I do 16:8 intermittent fasting and have stopped snacks)

I don't do breakfast - I have a cup of tea, snack, lunch and dinner.

DC have breakfast (7.30-8am),
snack (fruit 10.30),
lunch(12.30),
after school snack (4pm),
dinner (around 7pm).

I think that's fairly standard for children (though most eat dinner earlier).

Kids breatfast lunch and dinner. Occasionally a snack mid morning but only fruit.
I have lunch and dinner. As PP above I'm doing 16:8.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner only, also when I was a child. Sometimes snacks in between of a piece of fruit or nuts or something but I’m trying to avoid snacking. At the weekend usually only brunch/lunch and dinner due to getting up later (lie ins are the main benefit to not having DC yet!).

I have lunch and breakfast.
OH has breakfasts 1, 2 and 3. Elevenses, lunch, afternoon snack then tea.
DD has breakfast, snack, lunch, tea, supper.

Yes to the 24/7 grazing in lockdown!

Fucking millions

I usually have breakfast and lunch or lunch and tea plus a snack (like a banana or something)

So today I had
Breakfast - 3 marmite rice cakes, 2 boiled eggs
Lunch - ham salad sandwich, yoghurt, Freddo
Snack - banana and apple

My DS and dh have breakfast, lunch and dinner, sometimes with a snack of a piece of fruit mid morning.
I have just lunch and dinner.

I'm trying to think of what I ate today.

Breakfast: yoghurt
Snack: slice of bread DH made
Lunch: leftover pork & rice from yesterday
Snack: flying saucers and a truffle
Tea: crackers and a banana

I also found a random recipe for Polish custard cake on YouTube earlier so that's setting in the fridge for later.

It hasn't been the most healthy day but the DC are with their dad and DH is ill in bed and doesn't want to eat anything so I'm in CBA foraging mode.

Breakfast 7am, kids have a biscuit around 9.30/10. Lunch around 11.45/12, dinner 3.30/4pm and supper between 7 and 8pm. Younger two go to sleep at 7pm so they eat supper about 5.30/6pm before their bath.

Food glorious food. We buy a lot.

DC have -
Breakfast
Mid morning snack - baby still has a breastfeed, eldest has fruit
Lunch
Mid afternoon snack
Dinner
Baby is breastfed to sleep, Eldest has glass of water and a bread stick.

breadstick is "I'm starving" sleep delay strategy

Breakfast lunch and dinner. My son will have a morning and afternoon snack too. It does feel like he never stops eating!!