If you have a good eater...

HElizabethDU · December 2011

Do you still have designated snack times? My DD could eat/graze all day long if I let her. I give her snacks whenever she asks for them, I haven't really noticed it affect how much she eats for lunch or dinner. I was wondering if this is a bad habit or not. My DD is a peanut as well...only 18.5lbs.

MrsMommyQ · December 2011

My DD would graze all day long too. I let her tell me when she wants a snack but I control how much of it she gets. Lots of time she says "more!" and I say "no more" and she's fine with it. I dont think it affects her lunch or dinner intake at all either.

MrsLnt · December 2011

We still eat at the same times we've eaten since they went to a 4 hour schedule at 5 months old. Up at 7, breakfast after getting up, lunch at 11, snack at 3, dinner at 6:30, bed at 7. We don't do random snacks all day long. All meals/snacks are in their high chairs.

Kitiara5512 · December 2011

C has milk on a schedule, but snacks and solids meals whenever we eat at home, and on a schedule at the sitter's. He grazes at my moms I think. I dont worry about it as much because he prefers fruits and mostly veggies, but hasn't outright refused any foods.

MrsSR · December 2011

We do have set snack times, but it goes by when she wakes up and when she eats meals...

If she's already had a meal and a snack and is still telling me, "eat" then she gets something... cheese, fruit, or something else that's healthy.

JaiEm · December 2011

I give DD breakfast, lunch, a snack at 3pm, and dinner. (Getting formula every few hours)

KelzinBoston · December 2011

Snacks aren't at a set time because we are normally out and about throughout the day. He almost always has a morning and afternoon snack of some sort though, even if it's in the stroller.

MamatoA2010 · December 2011

My DD (almost 23 months) is a pretty good eater. Here is her schedule:

7:30am- wake up and breakfast

10:30am ish- snack

12:30pm- lunch

3:00pm ish- another snack after she wakes from her nap

5:30pm- dinner

7:00pm- bedtime

HTH!

lucisparents · December 2011

HElizabethDU:
Do you still have designated snack times? My DD could eat/graze all day long if I let her. I give her snacks whenever she asks for them, I haven't really noticed it affect how much she eats for lunch or dinner. I was wondering if this is a bad habit or not. My DD is a peanut as well...only 18.5lbs.

Yes, but I'm a DCP so I have a schedule for all the kids and DS justs follows along. He sleeps late (sometimes 8-8:30) so we have a good breakfast around 8:30, then lunch at 11:30, and always a snack after nap around 3 pm. And this is the same schedule I use on our days off too.

If he ever acted hungry in between these times I would let him have something, but he takes meal time seriously and usually gets full.

kg_08 · December 2011

DD does have set snack times and they are almost always healthy snacks. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, supper. She is also a peanut weighing 17.5 lbs at 15 months.

This kid could eat a horse. She eats almost as much as I eat sometimes.

MNgirl326 · December 2011

LO goes to daycare, so he has a set snack time there. WHen he is home on the weekends he pretty much eats at the exact same times because his body is so used to it.

g8trkim · December 2011

It depends on the day. On daycare days he has a morning and afternoon snack but when he's at home we tend to not really do snacks. At home he naps longer and eats a later lunch, so we don't really have as much time for a snack. He doesn't seem to care either way.

WildcatPrincess · December 2011

DD has a good breakfast and lunch in the AM, no snack because lunch is pretty early. Then she grazes most of the afternoon, but still eats a decent dinner so I let her. I just make sure to give her mostly fruits and veggies with some cheese and a few cracker or cereal.

nosoup4u · December 2011

My kids eat breakfast around 8-8:30, lunch around 11:30, a snack at 3-3:30, and dinner at about 6. My older son has never had more than one snack a day. Sometimes my younger will have extra meals if he was napping, or up really early.

momofmanyinthemitten · December 2011

JaiEm:
I give DD breakfast, lunch, a snack at 3pm, and dinner. (Getting formula every few hours)

This is what we basically do. If she has cheerios/puffs/etc left over from her meals, I'll leave them on the edge of her chair with her water cup so that if she is hungry, she can just grab a bite here and there.

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