Food At Child Care

[Kazbah]

today's lunch was tuna & corn bake with fruit & icecream for dessert

Our lunch menus are available to view for the week, so it makes it easy to menu plan at home too. Occaisionally they'll have something like chicken nuggets or fish fingers for lunch, but that's balanced with mashed veg and fresh fruit.

They also like "multinational" food, so there's nachos, curries, (vego & meat!), bolognese, stirfries etc. We have a brill chef ...

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Sausage inna bun for a daycare lunch? That is dreadful. What snacks are the children given?

DS's daycare has "healthy" cereal and toast for breakfast, fruit as a mid-morning snack, cooked lunch (meat, potatoes and two veg sort of thing, sometimes a casserole or pasta but a basic full meal - yes, the odd fish fingers, but DS has those at home every now and then too), then sandwiches, veggie sticks (ie raw carrot and cucumber and also cheese) and jam tarts or something similar. They provide all of that. I'd be most upset if they were giving DS sausage inna bun for lunch! For one thing he'd be starving, forget a nutrition lapse for the moment!

DS has his FULL complement of fruit and veg at nursery, he has enough food for the day there and sometimes hardly touches his dinner. But I'd expect fruit and veg at every meal from a nursery. Yes, sometimes I'm so tired that DH does pizza and garlic bread for us all, but nursery have paid caterers/ccoks (or should have).

[paradise lost]

Is that a CMOT Dubbler reference there Ryn?! It's what i thought of immediately

Is the menu for the parents to read or the kids to have read to them? I wondered if maybe there will be veggies on the plate that they don't mention on the board as kids can be so picky and might have convinced themselves by lunchtime that it's all yukky because they don't like salad/peas/carrots and thus they don't put it up so it's a surprise instead?

I'd be annoyed if that represented the usual standard, but snags once in a while wouldn't be a problem ( i gave DD pizza tonight too! I circumnavigated guilt and scurvy by putting peas, sugarsnaps and brocolli on the side...) LOL.

Bx

[christy]

hmmmm eeek. At FDC sometimes they have one item lunchs, last week Jovie had:

Monday: Corn cobs Day
Tuesday: Pea and Ham soup

So they aren't necessarily balanced. Lizzie has heaps of kids with allergies, so wheat is one and my girls are allergic to dairy so they have another one. It makes things hard, but the kids love corn cob days.

[jaspen]

ours has fruit for morning tea, sandwiches for afternoon tea (unless there is a special homemade slice or muffin or birthday cake). they have had the odd "sausage sizzle day "which my 4 yr old informs me they have salad stuff to go on your bread as well on those days - its usually when they are celebrating something. (most days are things that either have veges in them or veges with them eg quiche, sheperds pie, sausages mash and veges, spaghetti and occasionally chicken nuggets and veges, stirfry etc)