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Worried DS won't eat anything at nursery on Monday

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Sugarmagnolia · 20/05/2007 07:51

DS has lunch at nursery every day. He's dairy intolerant and a little bit of a fussy eater on top of that but I'm not allowed to send him with a packed lunch. So some days he comes home having only had toast, apple juice and a plate of veg. On Monday the whole school except the nursery are going on a trip so there won't be any hot food at all. Only cold sandwiches, juice & fruit. There are no sandwiches DS will eat (can't have cheese and won't touch tuna or egg). The nursery will not let me send him with any food even on this one occassion. They said they will give him bread & fruit and try to find a banana for him.

Is it unreasonable for me to be upset by this and expect them to let me send him with food just this once???

He doesn't get home until 4 on a Monday and that's going to be a very long day for him if he's hardly had any lunch. I don't know whether to just leave it, to make a fuss or to say nothing but just pick him up early and give him lunch myself.

OP posts:
earlgrey · 20/05/2007 08:07

hox, if SM is paying for the best she can for her child I think I'd tell them to sod off.

hoxtonchick · 20/05/2007 08:05

but he won't be eating nothing, he'll have bread & fruit. it may not be what you'd choose, or what you'd feed him yourself, but it should keep him going. hope that doesn't sound too harsh.

Taylormama · 20/05/2007 08:05

i don;t think you are being unreasonable. He has an food intolerance and they won't let you send anything in for him ... totally inflexible. They wouldn't treat an adult like this, so why a child?

earlgrey · 20/05/2007 08:03

I would be HUGELY upset by this. Why can't you send in a packed lunch anyway? When my dds where at nursery school they would have pandered to everything the child needed - if they hadn't, they wouldn't have survived as a business.

How (and who) told you all this, from the nursery?

akaJamiesMum · 20/05/2007 08:01

He's got to eat something. Personally I think it's unreasonable of the nursery to not allow you to send him in with food. You are paying them to provide childcare and they have a duty to see your child as an individual and to treat him accordingly. Allowing a child to go a day without adequate food is dreadful. I'd be complaining and perhaps be looking for a more understanding nursery.