Morning snack vs afternoon snack

Mrs.Greg · June 2014

I just read an article about how important it is for kids to have a healthy snack between meals. I have such a hard time fitting it in. They eat breakfast around 7:30, we are usually out of the house by like 9, gone all morning at play dates or running errands or whatever. We get home right about lunch time, at about noon. Then we have dinner around 5. After reading this article, I feel like I should try to fit in a snack somewhere. Tell me your meal/snack schedule. Thanks!!

dmartin726 · June 2014

I don't plan snacks. DD just walks into the kitchen and I can tell she wants something. So I offer her either a yogurt or a cheese stick or an apple or something...

I don't actually say at any certain time, "come have a snack".

It works for us. She eats breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 12 and dinner at 5:30.

Spin313 · June 2014

I don't "schedule" a snack, but this is usually how our day goes...

Breakfast: 7/7:30am
Snack: 9:30/10am (often on the go)
Lunch: 11:30am/noon
Snack: as needed after school
Dinner: 5/5:30pm

Arnegard · June 2014

I'll admit, I keep goldfish, graham crackers. granola bars in the car for morning snacks. Dylan has carnation instant breakfast in her milk in the morning so she usually isn't hungry until 10-ish and eats what I have on the go.

chardonnay24 · June 2014

It depends on the day. On days that we are home in the morning, he tends to sleep in, eat breakfast around 9, lunch around 11:30, with no morning snack. If we are out and about, breakfast is around 8, lunch is between noon and 1, and morning snack is 10/10:30.

jillyjill1026sr · June 2014

DD (21 months) has milk and breakfast around 7:30, a snack around 11 (usually 2 crackers and a string cheese), lunch around 2, milk around 4, and dinner around 6:30.

zbeesma86 · June 2014

depending on the day and what we are doing- Z snacks. She's like me. I'm a grazer. I eat 6 small meals a day. She usually noshes with me.

most days are healthy while other days we splurge and have chocolate teddy grahams or ice cream at snack

penguingrrl · June 2014

We have breakfast around 7, lunch between 11 and 12, snack around 3 and dinner around 6. I wasn't as scheduled with it until too much snacking started impacting the girls meals, so we needed to become more structured.

Snacks are usually fruit or veggies, occasionally with hummus. A favorite is apple slices with some cinnamon sprinkled on.

caybeh · June 2014

We eat breakfast around 8-8:30. DS usually eats a pretty big breakfast (4 frozen waffles or 4 pieces of toast) so he usually isn't hungry for a morning snack. We eat lunch around 11:30/12. We eat supper around 5:30, so it depends on what time he gets up from his nap. I have found that if he eats a snack after 3:30, he won't eat supper. It kind of depends on his nap, how much he ate at lunch, and if he asks. He does get a bedtime snack around 7:30 which is usually crackers/fruit/yogurt.

However, if we are out shopping in the morning, he will usually munch on pretzels.

caybeh · June 2014

DC2London said:

caybeh said:

We eat breakfast around 8-8:30. DS usually eats a pretty big breakfast (4 frozen waffles or 4 pieces of toast) so he usually isn't hungry for a morning snack. We eat lunch around 11:30/12. We eat supper around 5:30, so it depends on what time he gets up from his nap. I have found that if he eats a snack after 3:30, he won't eat supper. It kind of depends on his nap, how much he ate at lunch, and if he asks. He does get a bedtime snack around 7:30 which is usually crackers/fruit/yogurt.

However, if we are out shopping in the morning, he will usually munch on pretzels.

Holy cow, LOL

He just eats the insides, and leaves the crusts. But yeah, that is still a lot. It's his big meal of the day!

Chapter79 · June 2014

LalaMama81 said:

I definitely don't schedule snacks and don't offer unless asked. I always have stuff with me when we go out - I'm amazed your kids don't ask for a snack in the Am. I always have random stuff in my purse or car that is shelf stable - crackers, bars, etc. I usually toss some string cheese, yogurt or fruit in the bag before we head out. Heck, I pack snacks for me, too.

I have always done the above, too.. I still do at 8. I still pack a small container of goldfish or whatever in my purse.

I don't think my kid could go w/o eating from noon-5 at ANY age with no snack. Even I eat a snack in between those hours. And she gets a morning snack still in second grade.

fancynewbeesly · June 2014

DC2London said:

caybeh said:

DC2London said:

caybeh said:

We eat breakfast around 8-8:30. DS usually eats a pretty big breakfast (4 frozen waffles or 4 pieces of toast) so he usually isn't hungry for a morning snack. We eat lunch around 11:30/12. We eat supper around 5:30, so it depends on what time he gets up from his nap. I have found that if he eats a snack after 3:30, he won't eat supper. It kind of depends on his nap, how much he ate at lunch, and if he asks. He does get a bedtime snack around 7:30 which is usually crackers/fruit/yogurt.

However, if we are out shopping in the morning, he will usually munch on pretzels.

Holy cow, LOL

He just eats the insides, and leaves the crusts. But yeah, that is still a lot. It's his big meal of the day!

I sometimes say that Jack eats like a hobbit. Breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, elevensies, tea.....he will sometimes eat more food in a morning than I eat in three days.

Reese somedays has "second breakfasts"--I love it. She usually eats as soon as she wakes up, and it is typically a fairly decent meal. (i.e. a whole almond butter sandwich on whole wheat bread, or two bowls of oatmeal, etc) And then she goes to the DCP or my MIL, and has breakfast there---she tries to tell them that she didn't have breakfast yet. But seriously this last 5 days, this kid has been eating everything that hasn't been pinned down---and we completely are letting her

dizzycooks · June 2014

She we are home dd has breakfast, lunch and dinner. I will do a snack of fruit or veggies if she asks, usually right after naptime. At daycare she has second breakfast too plus afternoon snack.

jnksmom · June 2014

I don't schedule snacks. My kids sleep until 8 or so on weekends and summer. They both prefer to be up a little while before eating so breakfast is usually at 9ish and then lunch at 12. They both eat an afternoon snack and DS usually eats 2...he is hungry and eats something almost every 2 hours. We eat dinner between 6&6:30. Sometimes they eat a snack after that now that they are staying up a little later for summer.

school days are different. This past school year they ate breakfast at 7, lunch at school at 10:30&11, an after school snack, and dinner at 6/6:30. They went to bed at 7/7:30 so no after dinner snack.

jnksmom · June 2014

DC2London said:

jnksmom said:

I don't schedule snacks. My kids sleep until 8 or so on weekends and summer. They both prefer to be up a little while before eating so breakfast is usually at 9ish and then lunch at 12. They both eat an afternoon snack and DS usually eats 2...he is hungry and eats something almost every 2 hours. We eat dinner between 6&6:30. Sometimes they eat a snack after that now that they are staying up a little later for summer.

school days are different. This past school year they ate breakfast at 7, lunch at school at 10:30&11, an after school snack, and dinner at 6/6:30. They went to bed at 7/7:30 so no after dinner snack.

Teach me your secrets, oh wise one.
They are older now but they have always slept that late. I just got lucky I guess because I never did anything to make them sleep other than bedtime has always been 8:00 until they started school. Sorry I have no miracle secrets to share.

sometimesalwayschaotic · June 2014

We have two snacks a day. Generally we have one in the morning. If we're going somewhere I give them a cup to snack on in the car while we travel. We also have one when they wake up after nap. My kids turn into grumps without their snacks.

PaisleyRuth · June 2014

We have no regular snacks. If we go for a long walk to the playground or something, I'll give them Cheerios to munch on in the stroller. If DS is hungry earlier than dinner, I tell him he can have some fruit or yogurt. Sometimes he does and sometimes he finds that he's not actually that hungry if he can't have crackers or some empty carb.

Bfast is anywhere from 7:30-9, lunch anywhere from 12-1:30, and dinner anywhere from 5-6:30/7.

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