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Whats best for kids at supper time?

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multitasker · 07/09/2006 16:28

I have been giving my dc cornflakes for supper for ages but think it may be keeping them awake for a while. Anyone got any suggestions?

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sleepycat · 07/09/2006 16:30

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coderoo · 07/09/2006 16:32

ah my MIl dos this supper thing. I coudlnt do it tbh
i cannot "cook "anymroe meals than i d o already.
ALso i think its a ropey snakking habit to get inot

hana · 07/09/2006 16:33

supper ?
isn't that the third meal of the day? breakfast lunch and supper?

Northerner · 07/09/2006 16:35

Sometimes we do supper if we've had a light or early tea. We normally have cereal, toast or crumpets.

HuwEdwards · 07/09/2006 16:35

Supper's never been a 'thing' I've been into, unless you count a bag of hula hoops with a glass of chablis.

For the kids, nothing at Huw's house after tea-time (6pm-ish)

sandyballs · 07/09/2006 16:37

Mine have a bowl of chopped up fruit watching a bit of TV with us before bedtime, if that counts as supper. They always seem to eat any type of fruit at that time, in that way, unlike the rest of the day.

Bozza · 07/09/2006 16:38

We don't have supper because we don't have tea until after 6 which negates the need for supper.

Littlefish · 07/09/2006 16:38

Nothing after supper in this house either (except milk) for dd (21 months).

Breakfast - 8.00am
Lunch - 12.30pm
Supper - 5.30pm
Milk - bedtime

hana · 07/09/2006 16:39

aren't tea / supper / dinner different words for the same thing~?
am puzzled

Bozza · 07/09/2006 16:40

Supper is an evening snack where I come from. And I am guessing that is what the OP means.

Northerner · 07/09/2006 16:40

Tea and Dinner mean the same thing, supper is a snack later in the evening before bed.

hana · 07/09/2006 16:41

aha

Mercy · 07/09/2006 16:42

Hana, by supper some people mean a pre-bedtime/late evening snack (well I do anyway!)

colditz · 07/09/2006 16:44

Supper is given if it is late at night when he goes to be, after 8pm - I don't want ds1 to wake with hunger bfore he has had enough sleep.

Supper is an evening snack, not a MEAL. tEA ISBETWEEN 4.30 AND 6pm, Dinner between 6 and 8, and supper after 8. Children who have tea instead of dinner might need supper if they don't get up early, as 4.30pm until 8.30 am is a very long time to make a child wait for food.

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multitasker · 07/09/2006 18:19

Yeah supper is something light before bedtime. We have tea/dinner around 5 so it would be a long time till breakfast.
Must be a regional thing as I've never heard tea/dinner called supper - if you follow me...
Any other Irish Mums know what I'm talking about?

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Littlefish · 07/09/2006 23:24

No, no, no, you're all wrong

Supper is the main evening meal! Dinner is a posh supper when you have people coming round. Tea is a drink, or the meal you have on a Sunday after you've had a big Sunday lunch. Sunday tea is cakes and sandwiches.

Breakfast, lunch & supper!

Perhaps it's just a southern thing!

colditz · 07/09/2006 23:30

It's Southern. we have breakfast, dinner, tea and supper in the Midlands, probably why we are fatter than Surrey lol!

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Aero · 07/09/2006 23:37

I'm with you multitasker!! Course, I learned a whole new vocabulary when I moved to England from NI, and I now mostly understand supper to mean evening meal!! (Oh, and few folk know what a 'hotpress' is unless they know me, but my kids would look at me strangely if I asked them to fetch something from the 'airing cupboard'!)

shewhoneverdusts · 08/09/2006 08:33

My parents are scottish and I was brought up to refer to supper as a snack later, around 9/10 o'clock. When I was working in an ad agency in Southampton, a colleague invited me round for supper and it confused me.

jenkel · 08/09/2006 08:37

Supper for me is a snack before bed, lunch is what we have mid day and we either have dinner (normallY) or tea early eve, its called dinner if its a cooked meal and tea if its just sandwiches. And I'm from Wiltshire.

Holidaymum · 08/09/2006 09:07

We're northern england and supper's a snack too, kids have a slice of toast, fruit or a yogurt, dd likes a slice of cheese or ham and cucumber sticks and the cheese doesn't stop her sleeping strangly.

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multitasker · 08/09/2006 21:28

Aero am chuckling at hot press comment, sooo spot on. The colloquialisms in Norn Ire would be met with blank faces everywhere else. What is an "airing cupboard"?

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colditz · 08/09/2006 21:40

The airing cupboard is where you keep clean washing and linens until you iron it and put it away.

Blu · 08/09/2006 21:43

'Supper' in our house is when DS has a 'bed picnic'. Maybe a little sandwich and glass of milk if he hasn't eaten much in the day.

Not sure cornflakes would keep them awake much - they have a fair amount of sugar in them, don't know!