If you attended nursery as a child, do you remember anything about the food?

[NurseryNostalgia]

A very random question but I was talking with a friend about her children's nursery and the food they served there.

Now my memory may be faulty but I do remember a lot of my time in nursery and I remember the food being good. We'd often have 3 courses(Soup, Main and fruit, occasionally cake) with milk or water and I remember taking turns to set the table. The plates were plastic and blue or orange and for some reason everyone wanted a blue plate.

I think the food was mostly made in house. It wasn't a big nursery, because I remember one of our teachers liked to try out different recipes and I remember having a beef stew made with peanut butter that was incredible. Of course you probably couldn't serve that now because of allergies. I do remember one girl had an egg allergy though.

Bread was always wholemeal and the smell instantly takes me back to nursery. They always cut oranges into "smiles" for us and tomato soup had milk added to it. Having worked in childcare I do wonder how they got us all to sit through three courses while retaining their sanity.

This was in inner-city Glasgow.

I'm curious to know if anyone else has any memories of nursery and the food. I can't imagine that your average nursery now would have the budget for this. I'm amazed that they did then.

This has intrigued me because I went to an east end nursery too. I know it was a council nursery because my mum and dad were both teachers and it was some sort of concession/perk.

I have not one memory of the food!

This has intrigued me because I went to an east end nursery too. I know it was a council nursery because my mum and dad were both teachers and it was some sort of concession/perk.

Now I'm wondering if it was the same nursery, even if we attended at different times. I was also born in the Rottenrow

I do tend to be able to remember a lot from when I was a very young child but can I remember anything useful or where I put that item I had 30 seconds ago? No.

I only went to nursery school for a short time, but I've never forgotten their chicken and rice soup. It was a picky eater but it was so good! I remember the staff was very friendly, and the building was always freshly cleaned. In fact, almost 60 years later, the combined smell of Pine-sol and chicken and rice soup is forever embedded in my memory.

Pine-sol. Is that what that stuff is? I remember nursery always smelling of pine disinfectant and anything similar always takes me back.

I remember pink custard for pudding!

I was born in 1973 ,I don't think there were nurseries then🤔
I did go playschool.,but I don't think.we got food maybe a biscuit and some orange ?

I was in Italy, the nursery was run by nuns. They made us a first course of pastina (baby pasta in broth) or minestrone and then we all ate a sandwich packed by our parents and some fruit.

I have a nice memory of being a bit unwell one day and being taken to the nuns dining room and being sat on one of their laps being spoon-fed plain rice.

Nope, I remember my nursery very clearly but couldn’t tell you if I had a packed lunch or cooked food. No memory whatsoever.

DCs nursery (private but not super expensive) has lovely food, all made in house and some of it grown in the garden. They used to have their own chickens for eggs too until Covid.
DS1 used to love their mackerel pate' on toast for nursery tea.

I remember the food being tomato pasta. With macaroni and it smelt like tomato purée. I hated going and even now I can't stand the smell of neat tomato purée

Oh and 'paste' sandwiches which were disgusting. This was the 90s

We'd all have packed lunches. Or at least most of us. I remember being jealous mine didn't have a handle. I got a handle one for reception after campaigning.

I remember cubes of cheese and a selection of chopped vegetables

That's one day one 2 second memory that's literally all I remember about the food!

Can't remember the food at all. Can remember the songs we learnt!

I don’t remember nursery or primary school dinners at all to be honest. But the food at DD’s nursery was excellent, some are definitely still doing it very well. She ate far better there than at home.

I remember having celery with salt on it! Not sure that would be allowed these days 😬 I was born in 1985 so this would have been 1988.

I just remember the chocolate sponge cake and custard which I loved!

No memory of the actual food at all

I remember being given milk and apples at playschool in the 80s and thinking they didn't go together! DS now has really good food at nursery but the fees are very expensive.

No recall of the food but do remember you could do the weather board on your birthday!

We didn't have a meal in nursery, we had a drink and a biscuit. I can't remember whether the drink was milk or orange squash, maybe we had a choice, but it was served in plastic coloured cups. The biscuit was always a malted milk biscuit.

I do remember the food in hospital when I was 3yo though. The only thing I thought was worth eating was "orange soup with bits in". Dm searched afterwards to try and find it and didn't manage to find it. Turns out it was minestrone, which I found at secondary school. Not sure if dm had never come across that or just didn't want me eating it for some reason.

I went to a pre school in Workington run by a lady called Mrs Glaisters, my Mum said she used to ask me what I'd had for lunch and I would reply "spike and chips" apparently this meant tripe and chips

I don't remember food from before infant school, but my abiding memory of then was the weird metal cups and the odd taste. By juniors I remember it well and vomiting pink custard up the corridor when I was made to eat it