Taking whole days food to nursery... ideas

[cruellada]

From January DD gets funding for nursery which is fab but nursery charges £10/day for food which certainly racks up over the month, so I'm considering whether to send food in with her.
She will need

Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Tea

My vague idea is
Breakfast- Tupperware cereal and send small bottle of milk in every week
Snack- banana and raisins
Lunch- sandwich, kiddy (healthy) crisps and flapjack
Snack- cucumber and pepper sticks
Tea- ???

Any suggestions that people do for similar set ups?
Or should I pay £80-£100 per month for them to provide it for her

@BackforGood breakfast, snacks and lunch

@BarbaraofSeville
You'd expect all aspects of care of the child during that time to be covered in the fees charged (or government subsidised 'free' childcare) including food
This is part of the massive issue facing early years at the moment. People expect that this is the case, but when government pay such low amounts for funding, this is unsustainable for providers. My LA pay £4.04 per hour. I’m a childminder and charge average fees for the area at £4.50 per hour. Why should I subsidise government and parents And work for a lower rate at the expense of my own family budget? Once expenses are taken off I’m just about on minimum wage and I’m full with before and after school children too to make up my money.

I agree Mary and if you charge for food for children that you mind, I'm sure that it's nowhere near £10 per child per day. If the OPs nursery was asking for £2,3 or even £4 a day, I'm sure she'd pay it without question.

But the OPs nursery cannot pretend that the £10 they charge is solely to cover the cost of feeding the children, which is allowed, but it is a poorly disguised attempt to get parents to pay for a service that should be free, or much cheaper than it currently is.

Interesting to hear some points of view about the early years funding.
If the charge was below £5 I would pay it, £10 is too much.
Thanks to those who have given helpful suggestions.

I think it depends on if they are bringing in food or they are using their own chef and kitchen. It's not purely the cost of food. There is a prep/labor cost in there as well. Not to mention utilities and capital depreciation.