To ask whether your DCs have supper?

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When my DCs were younger the schedule was always:
7am - breakfast
10am - small snack
Midday - lunch
3:30pm - tea
6pm - supper (which consists of cereal or toast).
6:30pm - bedtime routine starts
7pm - lights off
This was how I ate as a child and I remember having supper throughout primary school.
Now DC1 is at school (DC1 is 5, DC2 is 2), tea is getting a little later - around 4:30pm. I'm finding that sometimes they've only just finished eating tea and it's time to eat again. Other times they'll refuse the healthy tea (we have a take it or leave it, but you get nothing else until the next scheduled meal approach to eating) as they'll put up with the hunger for a short while as they'd prefer cereal.
I think I'd like to knock supper on the head, but not sure how to go about this as the kids love it.
How do other people organise their meals? Is it normal for primary aged children to eat supper?
Ultimately I want them to eat healthily and have a healthy attitude to eating.

We are Scottish but living in France - just to add to the cultural / linguistic confusion!

The school day (for 3+yrs) here is 0830 to 1630, packed lunches not allowed and no snacking during school hours (no play pieces - the French generally don't do snacking at all). So they have breakfast around 7am, school lunch at 1200, a big goûter when they get out at 1630, then family dinner at 7pm, bedtime around 8:15pm. We don't do supper (Scottish style slice of toast / bowl of cereal ) because frankly they shouldn't need it if they had a decent dinner.

We don't have 'tea' but I have been known to holler 'your tea's oot!' when people are slow to the table. And my only experience of cooked supper was when a posh English neighbour invited us to come for 'supper' and i couldn't understand why she was inviting us over for a cup of tea and a slice of toast before we all went to bed!

DH always had supper, growing up, but that's because his family usually ate their main meal around 5pm - so they were probably ready for something else before bed.

Breakfast : cereal/toast/banana at about 8am
playtime snack: piece of fruit
Lunch: school dinner or standard packed lunch
After school: cup of tea/glass of milk, malt loaf, apple
Dinner 6pm: one course but cooked and substantial
Bedtime: glass of milk, toast or fruit, if asked for.

Tea was at 3:30pm before DD started school this September. Now she's started school it's being pushed later which is when the supper problems started.
Since she's been little, DD has been in nursery and with a child minder and both served tea 3:30pm - 4pm so we just have her supper when she got home.
Thank you all for the input. I'll definitely be trying to cut out supper.
Does what I gave them yesterday really seem like too much food? I'm trying to feed them appropriately, appropriate portion sizes etc. Sometimes it's difficult to know what's normal.

We've never done 'supper'. We've always eaten somewhere between 5/6pm - with an occasional dessert. Then they go to bed at 7 so there isn't really any time for it.

I would move dinner/tea later and just cut it out, especially if they are refusing dinner in favour for a less nutritious alternative.

Those of you doing lunch at noon or earlier and the evening meal at 5, how did you get into that routine? Not judging, just curious why you'd choose meal times that aren't usual adult eating times.

Noon is a usual adult eating time. In every workplace I have ever worked at most people have taken their lunch at 12. Eating at 5 is way too early for me though.

DD 12 years has
Breakfast about 7.20/30
Money for school day £2
Packed lunch
Toast or cake or crumpet and hot or cold drink at about 4.15
Dinner at 6-7pm (it can vary)
Occasionally something (cheese and crackers etc) if up later at the weekend otherwise just a hot drink to take to bed.
When younger (so pre-school)
Breakfast at same time
Milk and biscuit at 10.30am
Light lunch at 12.45
Drink and fruit about 3pm.
Tea/dinner about 5pm
Warm milk and bed at 7pm.

I seemed to be the only mum that never gave DD snacks in the car, in the shops, as soon as they came out the school gate etc, I saw it all the time, constant snacks every hour on the hour.

why lunch at noon?

well, ds is my oldest and he did clockwork routine was obviously the child GF based her book on
milk every 3 hours, 7, 10, 1, 4, 1, 10.

When we started weaning, we introduced some food at 12, before starving for milk, he ate, then afterwards topped up with his 1 pm milk. Over time the top up milk was dropped, and he had lunch at 12. He is such a person of rigid routine (didn't realise how much till laid back dd1 arrived) that by 12:15 he was starving and by 12:30 past eating as he had 'missed' his lunch time.

As he got older we did push lunch back to our more normal 1 pm.

I know lots of people for whom 5-5:30 is normal evening meal time. In fact if you ask, many of those people call their evening meal tea, while those who eat later call it dinner, and it is all hang over from class past.

(non working people had afternoon tea at 4 and dinner at 7, while working class had hot meal at 5-5:30 after work. Farmers often came in for hot meal and then went back out again to work, and then had supper before bed).

12 is a normal adult lunchtime, it's when every workplace I've ever known has started lunch breaks and it's when my DC's schools have lunch. The evenings are a much wider range of normal, my PILs always have their evening meal about 5.30, I grew up having it around 7 as my parents had later working hours.

Since when is 12 not a normal adult lunch time? I'd class anywhere between 12 and 1 as lunch time personally.

Thanks for answering!