Toddler coming home from nursery starving, normal?

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My last thread was a bit of a jokey one but on a serious note is it normal my toddler comes home from nursery and is starving?

She doesn't eat much at home. 3 meals a day which she may or may not eat. Fruit for snacks with the occasional quavers and crackers thrown in there a couple of times a week. At nursery its very similar. 3 meals and 2 snacks. We have the famly app so they update what she's eaten and 99 percent of the time she eats it all.

I collect her and she's starving. Today she's been home since 6 and has eaten 2 pieces of toast and some crackers and a banana. She's now clinging to the safety gate screaming hungry. I've given her a glass of milk and water If she's mistaking thirst for hunger. She's downed them both but still adamant she's hungry.
This is every week
Is this normal?

My DN came home with a plate from nursery and I was shocked at how small the plate was! The plate wasn't even as big as a side plate.

She probably is hungry. If my DS says he is hungry I just give him something. He's not an over eater and a healthy weight so must be hungry.

@Invisimamma I've actually just looked at the famly app properly and you are right. They are having tea at 3 30. We don't eat at home until 6 usually. Work depending. I mean I look at the app but never looked at timings. No wonder she's starved. Feel a bit stupid now

Are you sure they arn't just having a high tea later in the afternoon ? In that case your child will still need to have their dinner when they get home. My DC go to nursery and i assumed they was having dinner at nursery but when I mentioned they was always hungry when coming home and asked if they was eating well i was told that the tea is a small snack for before they go home and have their actual dinner.

Don't feel stupid, most people wouldn't expect eat dinner at 3:30pm. It's so they can have children fed and room tidied for parents collecting as some will collect from 4pm onwards and then they can let staff/cook go home as numbers reduce. They probably have lunch around 11am too.

I remember the tea given at nursery being really small and we always planned to feed our two when we got home. We often picked up at meal times as worked flexi time so did see what they classes as an evening meal.

I always offered mine a proper hot dinner after nursery - sometimes they wouldn't eat much, sometimes they'd eat the whole thing. Always the nursery app said they'd eaten everything, but I have no idea how they'd watch all the children so closely so as to know who threw what on the floor and therefore what they'd eaten.

I've always given mine a tea at home. Our nursery have their "tea" at about 3.30 pm so if yours is the same she will be hungry again before bedtime. Also when they say eaten everything I'm not sure on actual portion size so she may have eaten it all but it might still be small. Plus I think they're so busy at nursery they will burn more calories off. Give her a proper tea at home when she gets back sounds like she needs it op xx

Ds has ‘tea’ at nursery at about 4pm. He usually asks for a snack as soon as he gets out (I aim to collect about 5pm),, then has dinner at home at 5:30-6:00 as usual. Some days he doesn’t eat a full plate of dinner, some days he does. I do try to offer a drink first as he doesn’t always drink enough at nursery.

I have the same issue. They said she had 4 helpings of chilli and rice the other week and 2 desserts but when I make it she won't even eat one 😅