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Depends on how much they snack. I think two meals with no snacks is too infrequent, regardless of the amount of food. If there is snacking in between, I could see it working.

We eat three regular meals with little snacking.

DD is a pretty good eater so I don't think she'd make it! She'd want to snack all day for sure...

I think I would be more willing to cut out snacks and stick to a solid 3 meal schedule.

Sometimes we do because he'll refuse a meal. I don't really worry about it as much as I did when he was a baby because now he can tell me he is hungry and then if he asks for cookies I just say no and suggest something more nutritious if he hasn't had a meal in awhile.

No but we usually have a small or late (but bigger) breakfast if they eat at home. Like today lo1 had an egg, half a sliced Apple and most of a banana for breakfast and that was enough.

Yep, J's not a big eater and I don't force food on him. I always offer three meals but if he doesn't eat one I'm not going to stress over it.
As an adult, I typically eat one and a half meals a day. I try to only eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full.

K eats more like 5 meals a day, so I bet two big meals and some snacks would work for us. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me (I get super hangry if I don't eat something every few hours), so we probably wouldn't.

We do a roughly two meal a day schedule. My girls are late sleepers so by the time we get up and moving, it is usually 9:30 or later before they have breakfast, and they usually eat monstrous sized breakfasts! They go down for a nap at 12:30 so I may or may not give them a little snack of cheese and fruit before their sleep, depending on how tired they are and how much they ate for breakfast. They sleep/rest for 3-4 hours, so by the time they get up, it's nearly time for dinner. I usually give them a snack to tide them over for an hour or so until I can get dinner on the table, and then they usually eat a good sized dinner.

Now on the two mornings a week LO1 has preschool, it's a bit different and she tends to have three smaller meals a day, but LO2 usually stays on two meals a day and two snacks.

ETA: This schedule is pretty much exactly how I eat as well. I've never been a lunch eater but am a huge breakfast eater! I tend to graze throughout the day and then eat a balanced dinner. I didn't necessarily mean to instil these habits on my girls but when you're a SAHM, it's just the way it works out I guess

Never. I will always offer 3 meals a day and 2 -3 snacks a day. Eating smaller meals is better for him to be able to regulate himself and be in tune with his hunger and fullness cues. I get that he doesn't always eat much at any given meal (and more at others), but i prefer to always offer now and maintain those habits rather than get in the habit of going too long without eating, which could result in overeating or bingeing behaviour (i work in the eating disorders field and work with registered dietitians, so i feel pretty strongly about this!).

Sure, some days that's exactly what we do, much like @Ree723: . If we go out to brunch, usually I'll feed them a breakfasty snack (banana and cereal bar), then treat brunch like lunch, a snack after naptime, then dinner. Works just fine for us.

No I wouldn't, but he sometimes puts himself on a 2 meal schedule if I serve something new! I have pretty much cut out snacks though, he doesn't seem to miss them.