We actually don't do a lot of snacks, but we do long meals. Luka is a big eater and loves to sit in her high chair for long periods of time eating. She will sit there for up to an hour while I wait on her hand and foot. The only thing that upsets her is if I don't serve the food fast enough!
Eventually she throws her milk down and then I know it's over.
Wake up--I try to give her a drink of juice or water in case she's gotten dehydrated at night.
Breakfast--milk, juice, Cheerios, eggs, sausage, fruit, yogurt or cottage cheese, turkey and whatever vegetable I can prepare fastest--usually peas or beets. Yes, she eats ALL of these things in one meal.
Nap--10 am--she will sleep until 11 or until 2, she is going back and forth between two short naps and one long one.
Wake-up--juice or water again. I try to get her to play awhile before her next meal.
Lunch, noon or 1 pm--turkey, cheese, bread or tortilla, milk, juice, pretzels, fruit, cous cous, lentils....a lot of times I am throwing soda crackers or pretzels at her to buy time as she finishes food so quickly that I can't keep up. It is typical for her to eat ALL of this stuff in one meal.
She plays until about 2 pm or 3 pm, then another nap. I take this opportunity to go to the store or pick up the mail.
2-3 or 3-4--nap
Dinner, 4 or 5 pm--trying to feed her a variation of what I'm eating, so she could have chicken and broccoli, or pizza, or chili, or fish, or corn on the cob (minus the cob) or even turkey dogs (chopped up). In addition, some fruit, and extra veggies, and maybe some soda or graham crackers, pretzels and some baby oatmeal. I try to get fortified baby oatmeal in once a day.
After dinner, I might give her a cookie or a graham cracker. I do toss pretzels and graham crackers and cookies at her throughout the day (a bad habit). I honestly don't know where she puts it all because she only weights 18 lbs. I don't think her eating habits are typical at all--a lot of people have told me she is very atypical and eats a lot more food and types of food than most children her age. I think some days she eats more than I do!