what is a healthy snack routine for a 4-5 year old?
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Anonymous
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We do dinner earlier than you but DD sometimes has an after dinner snack so sounds similar enough.
As long as the snacks are healthy it and are not replacing meals, 2 or 3 snacks a day are fine. |
Anonymous
| Dinner at 7? When is bedtime? He’s probably hungry from sleep deprivation. Not kidding. |
Anonymous
| This sounds really normal to me. |
Anonymous
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My 5 yo:
Breakfast: 7am Mid morning snack at school: 9:30 Lunch at school: 11am Snack at pickup: 3pm Dinner: 5pm My 3yo goes to half day afternoon preschool. Breakfast: 8:30am Mid morning snack: 10am Lunch: 11:30am Snack at school: 2:45pm Snack at pickup: 3:30pm Dinner: 5pm They both go to bed around 6:30, hence the early dinner. |
Anonymous
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Our schedule sounds pretty much the same, except my girls (almost 5 and 2.5) don't eat a lot for breakfast at home and go straight into snack at school. I'd like to cut out the snack on the way home from school since we eat dinner a little earlier, but they seem starving at pick up and hangry about waiting for me to make dinner once we get home.
We actually do fewer snacks on weekends – breakfast is generally a little later so no morning snack, and just one afternoon snack. |
Anonymous
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You have an extra snack than we do.
Breakfast Midmorning snack Lunch Afterschool snack Dinner |
Anonymous
| We do mid-morning fruit or nut snack, same for afternoon. I feel it cuts down on whining at meal times and makes them much more enthusiastic eaters of real food. But this does mean they eat pretty big meals — two eggs, oatmeal, fruit for breakfast... protein, vegetable, grain for lunch and dinner. |
Anonymous
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It’s not really as much about the number of eating opportunities as it is about overall intake & nutrition.
For us, its: 630 breakfast at home (small during the week / something larger on weekends) 830 2nd breakfast at school 10 occasional snack on weekends, or maybe brunch with grown ups 12 lunch 300 snack at school on weekdays, may or may not have a snack at home during this time 530 dinner 630 small dessert maybe 4x/week (like 2 kisses & small cup of milk) Drinks are water, milk offered at least twice a day (doesn’t always drink it), and up to one juice a day (like 4 oz. OJ with a weekend breakfast or an Honest juice box after school). On the charts, Kid is 98% height, 50% weight. |
Anonymous
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My kid is lowest 15% for height and weight. (I was too.) 2nd grade.
We are vegetarian so I make almost all our meals. Very little store-bought. She eats small amounts: 7:30am breakfast at home (oatmeal or yogurt w banana) 10am snack at school (trail mix) 12noon lunch at school (brought from home, usually leftover from dinner) 3pm snack in car or at home (half an avocado) 5:30 dinner at home 7:30 snack (whole milk hot chocolate, or half an orange) before 8pm bedtime |
Anonymous
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My 5 year old eats breakfast at 7:30, snack at 9:30, lunch at 12:30, dinner at 6:30. He rarely asks for an afternoon snack but if he is hungry I’ll give it to him. On school days he eats lunch at 11 and has an afternoon snack at 3 and then barely touches his dinner.
My 2.5 year old is on the same schedule on weekends. At school she gets 2 snacks and then she also eats almost nothing for dinner. Home snacks are milk, nuts, and / or fruit. But at school they feed goldfish and other crap. |
Anonymous
Typical DCUM response. My way is the only way. The rest of you are doing it wrong and harming your children. |
Anonymous
For small kids you idiot. Feel free to look into it and get back to me when you realized I’m right. |
