We've just taken our daughter out of nursery after just a couple of weeks - various problems but what started it all off was (she was ten months old when she started there) the menu that first week. The menu had breakfast, fruit snack, lunch, tea which all looked fine, varied etc but then after lunch every day there were puddings (precisely from Monday to Friday: fruit and ice-cream, pineapple upside down cake, banana and custard, chocolate sponge and fruit and yoghurt) and every single day, mid afternoon, they give biscuits (described by manageress as 'normal tea biscuits, from a packet'). We were really shocked that sugary foods like chocolate, cake, icecream and biscuits appeared on the menu so frequently....especially as she was under 12 months but we wouldn't be happy with her eating sugary things like that so often, even when she was older. We've not really given her any sweet things (ok a lick or so of icecream at the seaside, some stollen at Christmas, we are not anti cake crusaders or anything, and I bake muffins etc for her with natural sugars eg from bananas and dried fruit) at all yet....we wanted people's honest thoughts on this generally / is this really what a nursery menu looks like? The nursery wouldn't offer any substitutes for the pudding and after two weeks of arguing said they'd give a rice cake instead of a biscuit for afternoon snack but by then we'd lost all faith and already registered to a new nursery. Thanks!
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Cake and biscuits daily on nursery menu - ten month old
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HateTheWait · 04/01/2016 21:12
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