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We did this for a long time. Two mini lunches, one before and one after nap. Sometimes he would miss the first one because he would fall asleep in the car on the way home from somewhere and i would just put him to bed and feed him a normal lunch when he woke up. It has always messed with his appetite at dinner, but i figure at this age it doesnt really matter that much.

I feel like my toddler eats mini meals all day! Breakfast, second breakfast, snack, lunch, second lunch, snack, dinner : ) So, I say do whatever works for you. The other thing is you could just prep lunch before you leave for that class?

I don't see issues with mini meals, don't they say mini meals are healthier even for adults? My 16 mo old naps at 11:30 so we usually do a big snack too before and then lunch after.

Our older LO eats lunch right before nap at 12. I'm not. SAHM but I prepare LOs lunch the night before and the nanny just has to heat and serve.

We do two mini lunches, and no additional snacks. We have done this pretty much the whole time DS1 has been on one nap.

I don't really see a difference between snacks and meals for my 2 year old--I try to offer healthy options, and she eats when she's hungry, you know? Like, my lo loves yogurt--if she eats it at 6:30am it's breakfast, but 9am it's a snack--big whoop, haha. She's often very hungry in the afternoon and usually is full by dinner, but since she's eating things we would serve anyway (like, she loves raw tofu, she eats it while we're prepping the rest of the meal), I don't care. We had our 2-year well-baby visit today and our ped basically said that too--he doesn't care if she eats at meals versus snacks. There are some days where she eats a more standard lunch, but other times when she's just too tired and eats more when she wakes from nap. At daycare 4x/week, she has a snack at 10, lunch at 12, and then snack at 2:30, but sometimes even there she naps before lunch if she's too tired. We often do very quick lunches on days she's home since she can't wait for me to prep much--so like, frozen nuggets or meatballs and frozen vegetables only takes about 2 mins to heat and cut up, or heating up left overs.