To blame nursery for this?

The hot meals at many nurseries are brought in by an outside company. These meals are packed with extra hidden veggies. And they do love using pulses and lentils! These can cause looser more frequent bowel movements, trust me no one wants to be on the afternoon nappies after a pulse heavy meal!!! If you think this is an issue you can ask for their meals to be pulse free.

Fruit/veg will be offered with every meal or snack. So at our nursery that would be breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, tea and evening snack. Milk is also given at all but lunch and tea time. This could also be a factor, my daughter could and still can't tolerate more than 2/3 Fruit portions a day and could only have a small amount of milk.

It could be any number of factors. If you truly think its the food quality then perhaps you should consider providing a packed lunch with ample snacks.

Depends on the nursery and the area. All of the ones in our city have chefs on-site because the cheapest nurseries are run by Hindu temples and market home made food.

Does the food diary include all snacks? All drinks? Quantities? It could be that she’s having more fruit during the day.

I worked in nurseries for years.
The in-house ‘chefs’ have just usually done a basic course in food hygiene.
They reheat cheap food and make very basic meals.
Private nurseries are focused on making a profit, not providing the most nourishing food for children.

The chefs are usually only in to make lunch. Tea is put together by other staff and will be pretty basic.

I’m not saying this will cause bad nappies. Merely pointing out the incorrect belief that chefs dedicated to creating delicious, nourishing meals create the food.

Many nurseries now have all food cooked off-site by a commercial provider that is delivered ready to heat up for meal time.

Of course, this won’t be highlighted by the setting or the menu and they all talk about the ‘chefs’ on their website.

do they use food with artificial sweeteners at nursery? They can bowel cause problems for some people.

She’s probably eating and drinking better at nursery (bigger portions, more veg etc, more water). Get them to monitor her water intake and give you recipes so you can replicate them. Eg DS used to often have his 6 a day in his lunch at nursery with little meat / fish. He was fine as we ate that way at home. But some of the kids who didn’t often went to the loo loads.

Fibre difference, fluid difference or emotional difference between home and nursery. I would highly doubt it's anything to do with quality.

If it’s a private nursery it’s unlikely to be worse quality food, they’re usually in house chefs cooking all meals. They have to adhere to certain specifications like very low sugar and high benumbed of fruit and veg a day. Could it be that if she’s used to less fruit and veg at home?

Well I suppose they could provide better quality food

Nursery fees will rise to cover that though...

Nurseries do generally use the cheapest possible ingredients, but if the food is good it shouldn't cause an upset tummy. Cheap chicken may be ethically questionable and might not taste great, but I don't think it would cause diarrhea.

More fiber at nursery would be my bet, played havoc with DS's bowls if he ever had more than 1 portion of fruit, right up until he was 5

I’d be more concerned about the hygiene than the quality of the food if she’s having diarrhoea every week personally.

It’s possible that she’s drinking more? That’s a possibility

Yes why are you blaming them?

“Blame” them for what?
If you’re that upset, send her in with her own food.

I doubt they are giving her shit quality food. It could be something simple like a particular brand has a different ingredient. Just speak to them. I had to do this and finally got to the bottom of it being their orange juice.

YANBU to think it might be related to nursery.

YABU to blame the quality of their food.

Have an actual discussion with them about what’s going on and try to pin a cause together. Maybe it’s different milk, maybe she’s having more fibre at nursery, maybe they give more dairy… Toddler diarrhoea is incredibly common.