Mice fed at four 40-min opportunities per day show a sequencing of meal size.
That sequencing is changed by phase advance or delay of light:dark Zeitgeber.
Mice with intermittent inexpensive food eat ~ 50% from a constant costly source.
Intake from the intermittent inexpensive food occurs only nocturnally.
Food intake and choice in mice is highly sensitive to the light:dark Zeitgeber.