Do you feed your kids...?

[MamaMiaOhDear]

Do you feed your child/children after nursery if they have 3 meals plus a snack whilst there?

Mine doesn’t have even meal at nursery but even if they did would still want to eat at home 😂

Yeah we do our family meal when we pick them up.

we used to often DS who is 4, something to eat after nursery, he started as a baby. He had tea at nursery at 4pm, some days it was pasta with tomato sauce, tuna pasta, pizza and salad sticks, beans on toast. Other days it was sandwiches, wraps with fillings.
I found on the hot tea days he just wanted a light snack like a sausage roll, or some fruit and a yogurt, on the cold tea days, he wanted something more substantial like a small portion of our dinner or beans on toast. As he got older he would tell us how hungry he was ,so I would use that and what he had to eat and offer something at home. he has left for school now.

We used to but so much went to waste we stopped. We offer a snack instead.

My DC used to be too tired for a proper meal but to hungry to have nothing at all, so would have some toast or something like that.

Nursery tea is very early. Mine wouldn'tmake it to bedtime, but you could just do fruit/cheese, that's what mine used to have.

When mine used to have dinner at the childminder's, they would sit down to dinner with us and usually eat a little bit, but I wouldn't cook anything specific for them.

I work in a nursery, what we provide is more of a 'high tea' and most children will still want something else at home. Especially as it's given quite early- 3.30-4pm.

Mine has never really wanted much if anything after nursery. I’d be happy for him to have something, just isn’t interested.

Mine is never hungry even for a full meal but hungry enough to want something so fruit, yogurt, toast or cheese on crackers etc

Yes, my kids have 3 meals and a big snack but they last eat at about 3.30/4pm so they're usually ready for tea at 5.30pm. Then they have supper at 6.45 too🤦‍♀️

I think it is very dependent on what they get at Nursery.
The food at different Nurseries caries HUGELY.
Some Nurseries "tea" is very much a small snack to tide them over until they go home.

Yes but it’s only a small amount as he eats double portions at nursery. More so that he’s joined in with dinner and sat at the table with us.

As others have said, mine has “tea” at 3.30pm of something like cheese and crackers, bagel, pita bread pizza, with fruit. This helps tide her over to wait to have a family meal at 5.30/6pm which means we don’t have to all eat at 4pm but it wouldn’t see her through to bedtime.

We offer a snack of fruit or cheese but it’s not always eaten. We offer milk too

Thanks everyone. I have been giving my little one dinner around 5.30/6pm once we're home but wasn't sure if I was giving too much food 🤣

Glad to see there's a mixture going on. I think she would wake up in the night hungry if I didn't give dinner

Mine has 'tea' at nursery, then get home and finishing off cooking, tea is 6.30pm and she usually needs a snack whilst waiting for dinner. Often eats a proper portion of dinner, followed by fruit or yogurt.

She sits with us as we eat our family meal and I give her a bit of what we have. She'll eat or not depending on her approval rating- mashed potato, pasta -good. Broccoli- nah!

Our nursery does breakfast, lunch, and then "tea" at around 3.30 (usually pitta bread/sandwiches etc). We used to have a difficult time getting her to eat at 6, but now bedtime is later and she eats well at around 7/7.30.

While my nursery doesn’t do the evening meal, morning and afternoon snack are kind of like meals lol. Morning snack can be weetabix or porridge with fruit, and afternoon snack can be pizza wraps or bagels with veg, So my little one gets two lunch and two breakfasts really 😂

I found tea to be quite early at nursery but they said that what they get given over the course of the day is meant to be enough and they shouldn't need dinner.

So I never offered anything and DC would still happily sleep through til next morning so they weren't hungry I don't think.

I got away with it until around age 4 when DC started demanding snacks. So we just do snacks now. (Same thing now they are at school and have tea at afterschool club)

I give porridge usually

My nursery offers a substantial 'snack' (tea really) at around 3:30-4, he's a good eater so normally eats everything given to him. We normally give him similar to what we would offer at lunch time when not in nursery so philidelphia on toast / a banana or other fruit and either Greek yoghurt or a fromage frais at around 6pm. He will normally eat all of that and then a beaker of milk before bed about an hour later.

LO is 18 months

Just snacks. Crackers and cheese and fruit, peanut butter on rice cakes etc. We tried briefly doing a proper meal and they just kicked off and refused it entirely.