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Baby Beluga 08:49 AM 10-12-2015
I apologize for all the questions today

Would you mind sharing your meal times? I am considering making mine:

7:30 - 8:00am, Breakfast
11:00 - 11:30am, Lunch
3:00 - 3:20pm, PM snack

I am worried 3 hours is too long of a break between breakfast and lunch though. Thoughts?
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Controlled Chaos 08:58 AM 10-12-2015
I feed my kids breakfast at 7am (not a daycare meal, its right when I open, no one typically arrives until 715-7:30)

9am Breakfast/snack
12 Lunch
3 Snack

Works for us
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bklsmum 09:26 AM 10-12-2015
Mine are:

Breakfast 7-8 (They eat as they arrive)
AM snack 10:30
Lunch 12-12:30
PM Snack 3:30
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Josiegirl 09:42 AM 10-12-2015
Breakfast at 8-8:30 (seems so many of the dcks have 'a little something in the car over here')
Lunch is creeping up earlier every day it seems, I fed them today at a little before 11:00
Snack will be at 2ish.
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Blackcat31 10:37 AM 10-12-2015
A.M. snack 9:00 (its actually breakfast but parents don't know that)

12:00 lunch

3:30 P.M. snack



Infants MUST arrive having been fully fed within 60 minutes of drop off.

Meal times are strictly enforced....children must be present AT meal time to receive the meal. I don't hold meals for anyone for any reason.
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Controlled Chaos 12:01 PM 10-12-2015
Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
A.M. snack 9:00 (its actually breakfast but parents don't know that)

12:00 lunch

3:30 P.M. snack



Infants MUST arrive having been fully fed within 60 minutes of drop off.

Meal times are strictly enforced....children must be present AT meal time to receive the meal. I don't hold meals for anyone for any reason.


My PM snack is in reality 3:30, but we can't have meals scheduled more than 3 hours apart, so I have to have snack on their little tables ready to go at 3pm, but by the time they wake up, get changed, hands washed and at the table, its 3:30. Its dumb, I'm always worried about a food program visit right at the end of nap on a day the kids sleep late...but I'm not waking them up early just because its been too long since they are lunch

Sorry for the OT rant
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Crazy8 12:05 PM 10-12-2015
Breakfast is eaten at home - I don't have any arrivals before 8-8:30 right now.
9:15 - AM Snack
12:00 - Lunch
3:30 - PM Snack
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NillaWafers 12:30 PM 10-12-2015
8am - Breakfast
12pm- Lunch
3pm - PM Snack
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Blackcat31 12:48 PM 10-12-2015
Originally Posted by Controlled Chaos:


My PM snack is in reality 3:30, but we can't have meals scheduled more than 3 hours apart, so I have to have snack on their little tables ready to go at 3pm, but by the time they wake up, get changed, hands washed and at the table, its 3:30. Its dumb, I'm always worried about a food program visit right at the end of nap on a day the kids sleep late...but I'm not waking them up early just because its been too long since they are lunch

Sorry for the OT rant
My food program agency allows/encourages us to list meal times as 11:30-12:30 verses just saying 12:00.

So technically my meal times are listed as I posted previously with 30 minutes added on to the beginning and end times, even though I strive to serve AT the time I list in my handbook.

So parents read that A.M. snack is 9:00 but the food program lists my morning snack as 8:30-9:30.

That way if my food program rep shows up any time within that hour, I am good.

It also helps with the 3 hour meal spread rule.
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Unregistered 02:08 PM 10-12-2015
Breakfasts 8:30, lunch 11:30 -12:30 snack 3:30 dinner 6:30
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LysesKids 03:15 PM 10-12-2015
Originally Posted by Josiegirl:
Breakfast at 8-8:30 (seems so many of the dcks have 'a little something in the car over here')
Lunch is creeping up earlier every day it seems, I fed them today at a little before 11:00
Snack will be at 2ish.
You sound like me... little bit & little miss are hungry by 8:30a, so breakfast snack - all mine are 2 & under... most want to eat by 11am again, then 2pm snack... little miss gets an extra treat at 4:30 (oldest & here til 5:30-6pm)
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Unregistered 04:38 AM 10-13-2015
Morning snack 9:30
Lunch 12:00
Afternoon snack 3:15

Everyone is here between 7:40 and 8:00 and gone by 4:15 and 5:00.
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stephanie 11:25 AM 10-13-2015
Breakfast: 8:30-9:00 (my center opens at 7:30)
Lunch: 11:30-12
Snack: 3-3:30 (closer to 3:15 since kids are just waking up and need to get hands washed, etc., but our schedule says 3 )
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Second Home 11:33 AM 10-13-2015
Breakfast 7:00
morning snack 9:00
Lunch 12:00
afternoon snack 3:00

we must feed children at least every 3 hours per the regs , so this is the schedule that fits for me .
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Rachel 08:18 AM 10-15-2015
Breakfast 8:30, Lunch 12:00 (usually I wind up serving it earlier, around 11:30), Snack when they get up at 3:00. We have to have breakfast and lunch at least 3.5 hours apart by our rules which is why lunch is "officially" at 12 even though it's usually served around 11:40 (more because the kids are tired than because they are starving).
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Unregistered 10:20 AM 10-15-2015
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Febby 06:03 PM 10-15-2015
Center opens at 6:30
7:30-8:30 - breakfast (although we'll feed them until 9 if parents ask...)
11:00-11:30 - lunch
2:00-2:30 - early snack
5:00-5:30 - late snack
Center closes at 6

That's the meal schedule for the preschool rooms (3 year olds) though. Toddlers, discovery preschool, prekindergarten, and school age have different schedules. Infants are fed on demand, of course.
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