I sort of follow the same routine as you - DS of a similar age (still BF) and learning the art of burying his hands in his hand woe is me routine too!!!

8ish breakfast
12-12.30ish lunch
4-4.30ish dinner
6.30 readybrek top up if he wants it - and he seems too - how does he fit it all in??
7.30 asleep and wine for mommy - yeah!

I try not to give big snacks inbetween meals but have recently noticed his appetite increase and if food isn't ready at said time little dramas are occuring. I have to hand rice cakes, small piece of fruit, raisins, a lump of cheese or a cheeky organix animal biscuit - just small enough! I was a bit concerned that if I gave him too big a snack he would not eat said meal.

I wonder whether increasing the meal portions or what is on offer at meal times may resolve this - any thoughts.

Hhhmmm....note to self: must add the wine for mummy on the timetable for the day, currently noticeably lacking.

Minky is 15 months. We have breakfast at 7ish, snack somewhere between 9 and 10, dinner at 1ish, snack at 3ish, tea at 5ish. I've been trying to increase the amount of snack and decrease the amount at meals - she's only got a tiny tum!

To be fair, if she asks for food, I give it to her. Particularly after her tummy bug. I spent the whole week lifting her in and out of the highchair try to satiate her.

Breakfast 7.30ish
Lunch 12-12.30ish (although sometimes later if IzzyMouse has pushed her morning nap back)
Tea 5-5.30ish

Haven't really done snacks yet as a) she doesn't ask for them, and b) she seems to sleep through the times that seem sensible for them. As she's not a big eater anyway that seems OK to me, plus I'm not sure how to get her to eat anywhere other than in her highchair, as she won't stay still to eat unless contained, but doesn't like being contained very much! Not sure I could face the tantrums I would anticipate if I tried to plonk her in her chair an extra couple of times a day.

Breakfast is 7:30ish
Snack usually 10:30 then naptime 11ish.
Lunch 12:30-1ish
Another snack 3ish
Tea 5-6ish (later depending on whether eating together)
She seems to need the regular energy boost - very GI living of us! It's the way DH and I eat too, I don't last the day unless I eat something energy giving mid-morning and afternoon.

We seem to be doing a very similar pattern to the others. Small is 8 months old and has her 3 solids meal a day. In addition I offer breast mid-morning & mid-afternoon. She is still taking the morning milk but is becoming less & less interested in the afternoon feed - mainly because we are usually out & about so there are more interesting things to be doing than sucking. I find that she prefers some fruit or a rusk & her sippy cup at around 3pm and that this keeps her going until supper at 5pm. I assume that the morning milk feed will transition into a snack at some point - at the latest when she goes into nursery later this summer.

Weeble is a year old now... I just got "What To Expect with your Toddler" and I think I've been starving the poor child! The amounts they say a toddler should be eating... wow. Of course, they give the same amounts for 1 to 5 years olds... hmm...

Anyway, he doesn't really have snacks during the day, apart from the occasional organic Wotsit (those carrot stick things that look like Wotsits) and maybe some apple... he eats heartily at his three meals though!

I think Bubs might be a little piggy!

7ish - breakfast & bottle
10ish - snack (1/2 hotcross bun or something)
12-1ish - lunch & bottle
3.30ish - snack (banana)
5ish - dinner
6.30 - bottle

probably explains why she's growing out of clothes so quickly.....

It's really interesting and confirms that every baby is so so different. Although it seems that from a lot of the responses above the babies are similar ages, the daily 'routines' vary greatly (and even more so from 'the books').

I must admit to not seeing a HV for quite a while now, and sometimes wondering if I'm giving enough of a variety of foods, but heavens to betsy....I can honestly say that the Pickle's favourite foods are poles away from the puree fed babies I know. She is a very happy energetic baby who has days when she scoffs the lot and days when she doesn't (sounds a bit like me really). I do find myself comparing notes regarding daytime naps, but I'm trying hard to stop that and just let it be.

She is 11 months and has now started to use a fork - a say 'use' in the broadest sense, she tries very hard to eat her yoghurt with a fork but I'm not going to complain it kept her quiet for nearly half an hour. The concentration........ Not many puree fed babies have that ability.

So thank you for the replies about the snacks, I will just continue to experiment with what is the right way for the Pickle.

I LOVE BLW!!! (if only I could say the same for the dentist.....off there next.....yuck)

Do you mostly give snacks in the highchair, or just wherever you happen to be? Or does it depend how messy the snack is? (or how much of a messy eater the baby is?)

I usually give Angelcake rice cakes or similar as a snack, so she tends to have them on the go. If it's a messy snack like fruit I will try to restrain her, in highchair is best bet, as she doesn't sit down otherwise. Ever!