Does anyone else’s toddler have lunch after nap?

We are stuck in this routine that my LO eats breakfast but then doesn’t want to eat again until after his nap (around 12:15 / 12:30) and then has a really late lunch. Then dinner ends up also late. Does anyone have this “problem” and have you managed to change the routine easily?
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We have this and I’ve kinda just rolled with it. I offer a snack before his nap, a light lunch after his nap and then do dinner 1.5-2 hours before bed. I figure I can’t force him to eat if he’s not hungry and he already has breakfast pretty much as soon as he wakes up so it’s not like I could bring that earlier x

My boy has a snack before his nap and then when he wakes up (around 2) he has his lunch, a small snack then dinner around 5:30 x

Hey! So we do this also, and always have since she changed to one nap. We do the following; Milk around 30-45 mins after she wakes (usually around 6.30-7.30) but she has water prior to this. Breakfast at 9am Fruit snack, some melty sticks etc. and a biscuit of some description around 10.30 Nap at 11.30 Wake up anywhere between 12.45-1.30 then lunch as soon as she’s awake. Then dinner between 4.30-5.00 We don’t give an afternoon snack as she never asks and I assume it’s because her lunch and dinner are quite close together. I have thought about changing lunch to before her nap but it will be too early for her so we are sticking with what works for now 🙂 Hope that might help x

we do this too 😊 just kind of fell into it when we transitioned to one nap. We do milk at 7-7.30, breakfast at 8.30, snack at 10.45ish, lunch at 1.30 when he wakes and dinner around 5 😊 suits us perfect! xx

Yeah I make sure he's had a good snack before his nap and then he has lunch when he wakes between 1.30&2ish

We had this issue too, so we just pushed his breakfast earlier and make sure he has a substantial snack between lunch and dinner. He has breakfast at 7.30am and lunch is at 11.30/11.45am with nap being around 12pm. His dinner is at 4.30pm c

Our lunch is different times everyday depending on when she wakes what we are doing. If she naps around 11/11:30 then lunch is when she wakes, if she wakes in the morning later and nap isn’t until closer to 12 we do lunch at around 11:30 with no morning snack x

We do breakfast about 8ish, snack at 10:30, nap 11:30 - 1 and then lunch about 1:30 and dinner at 5:30. We don’t do afternoon snacks as she never seems to want one!

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