So - feed a high quality food on a schedule. Most dogs prefer to eat once a day. Most puppies need more. Two or three times, depending on how little their stomachs are and how you are. I had a lady tell me once 'it hurts my heart to feed him once a day'. Heaven forbid I should be the cause of anyone's heart hurting! So I said - go for it. Your dog, you get to pick, but deal with the consquences.
So - feed your dog on a schedule, and only leave the food down for about fifteen minutes, give or take a few either way. If we eat it, yay! If we don't - too bad. Food will go down again next feed time! They won't starve to death and they will learn when its dinner time.
Food on a schedule. Water all the time they are up and active. Now that is my personal choice. I will not be responsible for a dog dehydrating and I really think putting the water up and down, up and down, forty hundred times a day will result in just simply Not putting it down at some point and dogs need free access to water. Put the water down and deal with it. Yes, you may pick it up an hour or two before bedtime. You are welcome.
Take puppy out on a schedule. Take puppy out the same door, on the leash,
to the same place using the same words. I tell mine 'hurry up' because that is what I want them to do. I'm all about not standing at the other end of the leash for an hour while they read the newpaper and contemplate their navels.
I stand there and say softly "hurry up" and when they do what I want 'yay!". Again, softly - goal is not to make the sphincter clench in alarm. And then when done, a little treat, and play time. 
If nothing happens, within a few minutes, we go back inside, and pop back into crate or get tethered to me. Set the kitchen timer and try again in a bit.
Repeat as needed.
Next housebreaking post will include some 'but if what if he.......' questions.
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