At our centre, we can provide food for DD at any time (but don't get anything off the fee). We do send food for her on the days they have something for lunch she can't have (they always adjust the meal for her but if it is something like a pasta sauce with tomato as the base, we just send a replacement meal otherwise it is too hard to amend for her - did that make sense?). There is never a problem with us sending food for her.

Also, at our centre, there is always veggies available. Even when the meal is something like tuna pasta bake, there are veggies on the side. I think this is because they have to do veggies for the babies anyway...

HTH

MG