What does your child eat after nursery?

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My DD is 2.2 and is in nursery 3 days a week.

Her routine is breakfast at 8.30am; lunch at 11:45am and then 'tea' at 3.30pm which consists of sandwiches, fruit and a crumpet or something similar.

I pick her up about 5.15pm and she's hungry. I have been giving her things like sandwiches, or a savoury muffin, cheese, stuff like that but it's not very creative!

Any other ideas? Should i be giving her something more substantial?

I'd probably give her something hot

Yes sorry - lunch is more substantial - chicken pie, or lasagne or something similar.

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I usually don't cook a hot meal after nursery. She usually has a sandwich (cheese or peanut butter), cheese & crackers, cold meat, humous & nan bread, fruit, yogurt, olives, or some combination of chicken/tuna/beans/corn/? in mayyonaise. Sometimes I might make scrambled egg/toast or fish fingers with potato or rice & peas.

It's very hard to judge her appetite after nursery, when I haven't actually seen her eating through the day, and I find this method saves a lot of frustration, time and wasted food. Dd is 2.8 and goes 3 days/week - she also gets a cooked lunch at nursery which I wouldn't normally do - so it's just the reverse pattern to her other days.

She's always massively thirsty - they never seem to get enough to drink, even though I do ask about it.

My 3 yr old goes to nursery from 12-3pm.

Usually he'll have:

8am breakfast

11am 'lunch' - sandwiches, yoghurt & fruit or sometimes an easy hot meal like pasta

3.30pm A snack - crumpet or bagel or something carby, fruit, milk

5.30pm Hot dinner

My 18 mo has the following at nursery:

breakfast (cereal, toast, fruit) at 7.30

10am snack (fruit, or cheese and crackers, or similar)

11.30 lunch (proper hot meal plus dessert)

3.15 tea (lighter meal eg. sandwiches, bagels, beans on toast, soup and bread plus dessert)

I think that is plenty so I just give her a weetabix for supper and if she seems hungry still she'll have a banana or yoghurt. Then warm milk at bedtime.

DS has the same nursery routine and usually just has some of whatever we are having for to around 6pm. Then warm milk at bedtime.

for tea

My DD has similar routine at her nursery.

When she gets home she has a yoghurt, banana and then just before bed a warm milk.

I have also noticed she comes home very thirsty so I usually make a drink for her in her water bottle for the trip home and have a spare organix bar.

When she is not at Nursery I switch her back to our routine - I am not doing a warm/cooked lunch!!! She flips between the two fine.