More food less often or less foor more often?

[kudzu]

Short version:
Is it better to feed larger meals less often or smaller meals more often? Does it really matter which approach one takes?

Long version:
My 1.5 year old Brooks kingsnake has been eating hoppers for a while. I was feeding him once a week, but for the last month I've fed him every 5 days. He is now about 30-32 inches long and appears to be ready for a move up in prey size. Current size mice leave only a barely discernible bulge. At feeding time he scarfs them down in under a minute and continues searching his tank for more. Later he goes into his warm hide to digest but is back out later that day. He used to stay in his hide for 36-48 hours after a meal.

This week I put out two hoppers for him, in two different places. He found the first one, scarfed it down, then quickly found and consumed the second. He did keep hunting for a little while, but then went into his warm hide and stayed there for about 36 hours. That seemed to put him back to his normal behavior. It's been 4 days and he's started prowling his enclosure again.

His "prowling" behavior is quite different from his former normal activity. In the past, his normal behavior was just moving from hide to hide, going for a soak in his bowl once or twice a day, hanging out on one of his plants, etc. Basically, his only moved around when he seemed to have a destination in mind. When he's in hunger mode he explores every inch of his enclosure repeatedly for 15 minutes or so before going back in a hide. Then he reemerges later that hour and repeats the hunt.
We still have a supply of hoppers left & I'd rather use those up before switching to the larger size. Thus the question of whether to feed more food less often or smaller meals more often. My preference would be to feed two mice per meal so he feels full & won't be prowling his cage just 24 hours later. While I love seeing him out and about, I don't like the idea of him constantly feeling hungry.