Meals after nursery

What does everyone feed their LO after nursery?

On a normal day they feed him:
Breakfast (cereal and fruit) at 8:30am
Mid morning snack (toast and more fruit) at 10am
Lunch (today was a stew and yoghurt for pudding) at 11:30am
Light tea (today was pasta, can’t remember the pudding) at 3:30

They then offer another snack at 5:30pm but he gets picked up at 4.

Should he be having a full dinner or just another snack? Today I gave him crackers, sliced apple and some cheese. He wasn’t a fan of the crackers so I gave him a weetabix which he ate.

I feel like 3:30pm is so early for his final meal, but also conscious he’s had two large meals in the day.

Definitely overthinking it but would love to hear what others do to get some ideas.

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We give a dinner (he eats the same meals as us). Sometimes he eats it all, sometimes he picks at it but I prefer to offer so I know he’s not going to bed hungry. They give tea at 4pm at nursery but it’s more snacky as they have their main meal for lunch.

Every LO will be so different I don’t think there’s any right or wrong x

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We do the same as Yasmin. Again sometimes she eats the lot sometimes she’s eaten so well at nursery she’ll barely touch it. But at least we know she’s been offered.

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We generally give a sandwich or snack, she always goes straight to the kitchen when she gets back but it's not long before bedtime when she gets home.

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On nursery days I do like a snacky plate for when she gets home. At our nursery they have their main hot meal for lunch then more of a snack meal (crumpets, sandwiches etc) at 4.30.
We pick her up between 5-6 so I just do things like crackers, humus, fruit, sandwich, crisps. Sometimes I just give a bowl of weetabix and fruit. We get home quite late on nursery days so this works better for us and it’s only 2 days per week x

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It depends on what he has at nursery so if he had a hot meal at lunch then only cheese and crackers I would offer him dinner at home but then if he had a hot meal at lunch then pizza at tea time I would give him like a supper which will be cereal xx

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We offer a portion of whatever we are having with some fruit on the side. Sometimes she eats it all, sometimes she barely touches it!

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Depends what the tea is, our nursery does the same, tea at 3.30 and my mum picks her up at 4.30, so if it was filling and she had a lot of it, I say to just give her fruit and a yoghurt and a biscuit or something snacky, but if it was just a sandwich then to give her a dinner!xx

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