Dinner time

On nursery days we tend to give him a snack of fruit and maybe toast

My little boy has the same they give him a bigger lunch and a smaller tea at 4:30 I was finding he was constantly asking for snacks when he gets home normally biscuits. Today I did a more substantial snack (2 baby bells, some breadsticks, hummus and cucumber) at 5:30 which he ate all of and wasn’t looking for more so seemed to be the right amount but still healthy.x

We just give our boy some fruit or cheese biscuits while we eat as we want to have that routine but yeah he doesn’t often eat much as he’s eat loads at nursery. X

My fat kids eat loads after nursery 😭 I tend to offer them what we have for dinner but a smaller portion... if they're not having it usually it'll be a picky plate with some fruit and yogurt. Then a half banana 20 mins before bedtime.

My daughter is always really hungry after nursery wanting toast/yoghurt/babybel so I just give her it as I don’t know the portion sizes at nursery and she’s so thin so like that she eats 🤣 xx

Thank you so much everyone, I’ve been trying to give him a proper dinner and he eats barely any of it so think I’ll try more snacky dinns and see if that goes down better, thank you so much! X

My boy has dinner in nursery around half 3 so we still give dinner at 6 as he eats most of it x

What exactly is tea in this contex? The reason I ask is because I have heard of a lot of people calling dinner tea and for others it’s a light meal before dinner which sounds like what you mean? My son doesn’t go to nursery however he also has lunch at mid day (which I thought was typical) and then he has dinner around 5-5:30pm in between mid day and dinner he will get a small snack but otherwise he doesn’t get anything until dinner! I even find if he has that small snack too close to dinner he won’t want to eat as much or at all so it depends what your giving for tea but otherwise I’d cut out anything too big before dinner and give a small snack maybe at 3:30pm

So nursery do tend to give big portions of either soup and bread, pasta, curries, hotpots, etc. followed by a pudding, so it’s essentially a really early dinner. So when he gets home I try to get him to eat a dinner but he’s most likely too full so probably need to offer more snacks than a full blown meal! X

I think all kids appetites are so different as well. My 3 are just little scavengers. They have a small breakfast at home 7am, then cereal breakfast at nursery 8am, lunch at 11:30, dinner/tea at 3:30... and then a pocky plate/second dinner at home at 6:15ish. But they don't drink any milk and their snacks tend to be fruit/breadsticks/rice cakes....