Whats best for kids at supper time?

32 replies

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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janeite · 09/09/2006 16:46

Supper is a snack before bed; tea is earl grey; snap is a packed lunch and the airing cupboard is where you stick all the things that you can't be bothered to iron.

Tommy · 09/09/2006 16:55

I have a friend who is quite posh and when she says supper she is talking about what I call dinner or tea.
We're both Southern though!

Littlefish · 09/09/2006 19:14

Perhaps its a posh thing, rather than a Southern thing then Tommy. Ooo er - looks like I might be posh then

curlew · 09/09/2006 19:38

I'm quite posh and for me supper is a light evening meal that's family and nearly family only. If you have a dining room you wouldn't eat supper in it, you'd eat it in the kitchen. However, for my children and their Northern daddy, it's something you eat before bed if you're hungry. My children often have it if they've had a very early meal because of Brownies and gym and things. Mine have milk, peanut butter sandwiches, oat cakes and honey, bananas,a sliced up apple and cheese, porage(dd's personal eccentricity)olives(ds's ditto) crumpets, toast if there's nothing else...that sort of thing.

oxocube · 10/09/2006 10:38

Breakfast, lunch, dinner here. Tea is a drink (but to my parents it is dinner), supper for me would be before bed. My kids don't have supper cos dinner is usually around 6.30. BTW, pudding or dessert? We do pud (never sweet) shudders at the thought

jenk1 · 11/09/2006 09:23

Right well im a scrubber so in our house its:

Breakfast 8.00am
Dinner 12-1pm
Tea 5pm
Supper 7pm

And we have an airing cupboard and an outside BOG so there

Astrophe · 11/09/2006 09:39

aaarrghhh! you're all barking - you'd think such a little country would have one language

its
-breakfast
-brunch (if you have a nice weekend sleep in and eat at 10 or 11am)
-lunch
-afternoon tea (cake/sancwich/fruit and a drink)at 3 or 4-ish
-dinner
-supper if you need a hot chocolate and a biscuit before bed...

obviously!

but back to the OP...don't really see why cornflakes would keep them up...but maybe try whetabix as lower in sugar - or porridge?

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