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    Default What times are your meal times?

    Just wondered what times you serve children breakfast, lunch, dinner and any snacks?

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    Morning snack/breakfast 9.30 or 10am lunch at 1.30 and afternoon snack at 3.30 or 4 depending how hungry they are.
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    Breakfast 8am

    Morning snack 10am

    Lunch Midday

    Afternoon snack 3.30

    Dinner after 6Pm (try to avoid it but have 3 late stayers on a Tuesday)

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    breakfast 7.30-8.00 ( anyone having breakfast has to arrive before 8! )
    morning snack can be any time from 9.30-10.30 depending upon who is here and what we are doing!
    lunch can be anytime from 11.30, but usually around 12/12.30
    we don't usually have an afternoon snack, but occasionally have a quick something about 2.50/3.00 just before school run.
    tea is usually 4.30pm, apart from a Thursday when it is 4pm due to multitude of afterschool activities!
    my mindees have all gone home by 5.40, most about 5.15/20 ( hence the early tea! plus it suits for my own children who are then going out to do things, so they are full of 'proper' food, not just 'filler'. they might not have a huge portion as they often have another tea when they get home! )

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    Breakfast 7:30-8am for schoolies 9:15 for preschoolers.

    Morning Snack (if happens due to naps etc) 10-10:30

    Lunch 11:30-1:30 all working around who I've got , again naps etc.

    Afternoon Snack 2:30-3pm

    Dinner 4:45-5pm

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    Breakfast, 7.45am, table is cleared by 8.20

    Morning snack, 10-10.30ish

    Lunch, 12noon or as close to if been out

    Afternoon snack, 3-3.30ish depending on which if any school runs

    Dinner, 5pm, I don't allow any collections between 5-5.30 as I find it disrupts the meal plus I like to sit and eat myself

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    morning tea for early starter at 7.30 lol ( mummy sends her with bottle of tea)
    breakfast about 9ish
    light snack 10.30
    lunch between 12-12.30
    afternoon snack when they wake about 4ish
    Dont offer evening meal

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    They eat when I'm hungry.

    They drink when the pubs open.


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    Morning snack around 10
    Lunch around 12.30
    Often don't fit in an afternoon snack but do tea about 4 anyway and this is a light tea and most children eat with there parents again when they get home anyway. I found if I did an afternoon snack they never are any tea either

    Breakfast is only done if here before 8.30

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    Quote Originally Posted by natlou82 View Post
    Breakfast 7:30-8am for schoolies 9:15 for preschoolers.

    Morning Snack (if happens due to naps etc) 10-10:30

    Lunch 11:30-1:30 all working around who I've got , again naps etc.

    Afternoon Snack 2:30-3pm

    Dinner 4:45-5pm
    Same here - mine are all asleep by 12.45
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    Breakfast between 7.45 and 8.15am, morning snack around 10.30am, lunch anytime between 12.30 and 2pm, snack at 4 pm on the dot (after schoolers) and tea at 5pm.
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    Breakfast is about 9.15 (they arrive after school run and have usually had a snack/small snack at home when they woke at the crack of dawn).
    Snack - 10.30
    Lunch - 12.00
    Snack - 2.30
    Tea - 5.15

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    Hi

    I dont currently have anyone to come for breakfast but if I did they would have to be at mine by 7.45 at the latest or will then not breakfast until after the school run.

    Lunch is 12pm or slighly earlier as one little one tends to go down for nap at 12.30

    I do not offer a tea service as current children all gone by 5pm

 

 

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