Eating... At what times of the day does your 2-3yr old eat?

[lottymadbird]

i.e. what time for breakfast, lunch and dinner? and what snacks?

Ds ate (and still does at 4)

7am breakfast
snack fruit
12 lunch
snack cheese/fruit
5 dinner

Sweets on friday (if he's been good at nursery) and Sunday

DS2 is 3:

7:45 breakfast
12pm lunch
5pm tea

Breakfast starts at 7.

Snack 9.30 ish

Asks for lunch from 10.30 but I make him hold out until at least 11. Suits me to give him an early lunch so he can play before his nap. Need him asleep by 12 really to be up for the school run.

Cracker or something at 3.15 when I pick his brother and sister up.

Tea around 4.15-4.30 depending on when it is ready.

My DD2 is 2,
she has breakfast at 7:30, snack around 9:30, lunch at 11 (before nap), no afternoon snack just liquids, and tea at 5:30.

Breakfast - 07.45
Snack - 10.30
Lunch - 12.00
Dinner - 17.30
She used to get a snack at 15.15 at school pick up time with her sister but has recently stopped eating any dinner so I have cut that out at the moment, not that it has made any difference at all
at your ds's nap time Nab.
DD is 2.6

No, she is 2.7 now I have thought about it.

ds is nearly 3.
7am breakfast begins (porridge fruit egg toast and sometimes a small cheese or ham sandwich)
noon lunch
3pm snack (fruit or yog or biccies)
5.30pm dinner
7pm small snack (bit of sausage or cheese, sweetcorn to pick at)

DD (2.6) and DS (4.6):

1st Breakfast- 6:30 or 7ish, depends on when they get up. They usually demand food right away. Usually about 2 bowls of cereal each with daddy.

2nd Breakfast- About an hour later, usually pancakes or waffles, or meatless sausage patty w/toast or something like that. They eat with me.

Snack- 9:30ish-Granola bar, blueberry muffin, something like that.

Lunch- I can only get them to hold out until around 11, which is good, because DS' preschool starts at 12. Usually 1/2 sandwich, mini-pizzas we make ourselves with veggie and meat toppings, or cheese and crackers and 1 yogurt each. They always have some sort of fruit, or cucumber slices, or broccoli w/dip.

Snack- 3ish. More fruit, or veggie sticks, or something smallish.

Dinner 5:45ish when daddy gets home.

DD is nearly 3

Refuses an early breakfast so probably has something around 9.30am
Lunch around 12.30-1.00
Sometimes a snack at around 3.30 when DD1 gets home
Tea at around 5.00-5.30

DS is 3.5.
Breakfast some time between 8 and 9 generally - cereal or fromage frais or toast or porridge or (now and again) mini doughnuts.

Snack mid morning, biscuit or fruit and nibbles depending on which P&T we go to.
Maybe a banana or an apple or a biscuit on the way back from P&T
Dinner some time between 1.30 and 2pm (this is the main meal, so pasta and sauce or shepherds pie or risotto or something, folowed by anything up to 4 fromage frais )
Fruit bar or rice cakes or biscuit or something on the way back from the park
Tea at around 6pm, something on toast or pitta and hummus or fishfingers with a slice of buttered bread, fruit/yoghurt/cake.

This may well be interspersed with extra fairy cakes and fromage frais or fruit. DS eats a lot (often comes home from nursery with a note saying, ate all his lunch and had seconds).