I am a home provider and i provide food (breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack that contains all of the components of dinner but more "snack food" in that it is yogurt, cheese, pb or some other simple protein. crackers, tortilla, cereal etc for grain and veg and fruit that they can eat with their fingers- so more of a "cold lunch plate" not a cooked dinner. But, they eat what they want. Some of my kids are here until 6:30 or they have an activity when they leave here so it gives the parents a little extra time and they know that at 4 they had something healthy.) I do not like it when children walk in with food in their hands. It is usually something I would not feed them and causes a commotion. I serve them healthy nutritious food. Veg and fruit with every meal. I know that I feed most of my kids better than what they get at home. My problem is their parents feed them way more junk than I do and then they get picky and want junk! They develop a taste for salt and chemicals;(

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