Hey just wondering how much ur 3 year old eats in a day at home or daycare??

My little one doesn't eat a whole lot when at home but yesterday was her first day at daycare she only did half a day so had morning tea and lunch there and she ate everything i had packed for her she had

A container full of melon balls (honeydew, rockmelon & watermelon)
A container of chopped up cucumber (smallish container
A cut up kiwi fruit
A container of Tuna mornay (more then she would eat for lunch at home
2 oat bikkies
A tupperware snack cup full of yoghurt.

Now tomorrow she is going for a full day and i'm not sure what to do i really didn't think she would eat that much in 2 sittings so now i don't know how much to pack for tomorrow I thought that i had gone over board yesterday lol

So does ur 3yr old eat more or less at daycare then at home??

Hi,
I have worked in Early childhood, and find that most children seem to eat a lot more than you expect them too, especially when they have been very busy at childcare. Sometimes i found children liked to eat more when they were sitting and eating with other children, it became a social activity.
I wouldn't worry about it especially when the lunch you packed for her sounds very healthy.
You could try asking her daycare if they have any good ideas for extra things to put in her lunchbox for those longer days.

Austin eats a lot all of the time!!!! lol

Typical day care day is

One sandwich
a tub of yohurt
3 pieces of fruit (like a banana, an apple and then cut up strawberries)one home made treat (such as pineapple and carrott muffin, banana bread)
and then something random like cheese sticks or carrott sticks or left over zuchinni slice or something.

I typically at work eat one sandwich and the 3 pieces of fruit so he is eating heaps more then me!!!!!!

My 2.5 yr old is at preschool from 8.30ish till 3.30. I pack for her a banana for morning tea, sandwich, yoghurt and grapes or blue berries for lunch. Afternoon tea she'll normally have crackers, sultanas, spacefood stick, cheese. She normally eats it all. Its basically what she'll eat at home but she'll have a few more snacky things a home.

Yum! Sounds like a great lunch! Perhaps some more carbs would fill her up for longer? Chuck a few sandwiches on wholegrain bread or pikelets made with wholemeal flour and peas/corn perhaps??

DD's day care provide morning tea and that normally honey on toast.

I pack a sandwich, 2 mini muffins, piece of fruit for lunch.

Also I pick DD up after lunch and a lot of kids are still sitting eating, I have noticed that the childcare staff encourage the kids to finish what that have got.