AIBU playgroup snacktime

[boursin]

The playgroup (stay and play) we usually go to with my 2yr old was closed so we went to one in a nearby town.
In my usual one each parent brings a piece of fruit and we cut it up and dish it out. I thought this was normal....
Yesterday for 11am snack my child was offered bread, wotsits, cheese crackers, biscuits and chocolate cake and cheese.
Children of course loved it and I was slightly AIBU as it wasn't a party but happens every week apparently.
Is this what happens at other mum run play groups?

Hear, hear hocus!

Nice x-post there joric

Could you send the chocolate cake baking Mum over to our toddler group please :)

:o @ bullet!

Except you used the right 'hear' !!

It's the pedant in me haha!

It gets my goat when groups offer biscuits. I mean they have non to little nutritional value, they are loaded with fat and sugar. Why is this considered an appropriate snack? We go to a lot of groups and church on Sunday and if I let her have one each time it would be at least twice a week not to mention any other times they crop up.

it gets my goat also green. i dont want my littlies munching on those fat lumps 2 days of the week either. [shocked] don't see why there's no carrot stick option at church.

oops, meant

At the 10-12 playgroup I go to, the kids get fruit (slices of apples, raisins, bananas passed around) and a little biscuit each.

Mums get a biscuit too, of the chocolate variety ;)

OP - the food your toddler got yesterday does sound quite a bit to me for a weekly playgroup.

TBH I'm just delighted if DS eats anything

sigh

That does sound like way too much, there's no way DS would turn any of that lot down and no way he'd eat lunch after having it. All the toddler groups round here do fruit and crackers, people bring cakes for birthdays so cake is on offer occasionally.

There's nothing wrong with cake and biscuits but I find at playgroup even the fussy eaters will sit down with all the other children and try a bit of fruit that they might not want, or be offered, at home. At the Sure Start centre one of the helpers told me that some of the children don't recognise any fruit at all and that struck me as really sad.

If I bring a basket of strawberries up to the school at home time, DC2 & DC3 literally end up rolling around on the ground, screeching & bashing each other in the head, fighting for them.

Meantime, DC4 calmly hands the strawberries out to any askers. Hell will freeze over before one ever passes his lips, though. (SIGH)

This thread is hilarious.

I dont think I ever came close to eating a carrot stick as a kid.. the only time we had carrots was with our tea.. I did however have ringos, wotsits, party ring biscuits, cakes, sweets, popcorn and any fizzy drink... I also had plenty of exercise..

I was a skinny kid, and a slim teen.. I only put any weight on in my 20's when I had a sedentary job and ate at the wrong times..

I am 42 now, a size 12, in excellent health and with a full set of my own teeth..

Sugar, salt, chocolate, and all the other things that some of you deem as poison that will kill your child is absolutely fine so long as your child gets a healthy diet the majority of the time, and lots of fresh air and exercise to burn off the energy that the carbs will give them.. there is absolutely no need to make your child eat like a fecking rabbit.

Two of the most popular 'healthy' snacks at the toddlers groups that I have been to are raisins and sliced banana. These are seen as two of the worst snack foods that you can have with regards to dental health. They stick to teeth and cause teeth to erode. Peanut butter is another culprit when eaten as a snack.

Pure fruit juice is dehydrating even when diluted with water and my doctor recommended that for quenching thirst squash was a better choice than pure fruit juice. Obviously water is the best choice.

Brushing your teeth within 30 mins of eating a sugary snack to remove residue is not advised as you can remove the enamel from your teeth.

Sometimes the healthy choices are not quite as healthy as they seem at first glance.

44, five kids, size ten and pfffffffft to rice cakes and water.

Nothing wrong with a bit of squash and a biccie at playgroup.

I am assuming no one is relying on playgroup as their child's main source of nutrition. If you are that bothered about cake at playgroup I would assume that you are v.careful about their diet at home. Therefore they are in no danger from the odd wotsit (mmmmm wotsits).

We have a playgroup at work. It is part of our assessment process for children with SN.

They get to chose what drink/snack they want as part of the assessment.

I cant help thinking this is process is somewhat flawed as the only choices are water/milk, apple/breadstick.

Most of the kids just look a bit stunned then wander off to find something more interesting to put in their mouth - like a bit of carpet tile.

So we will all stop eating raisins (good source or iron) and banana (potassium) to save our teeth.

Rice cakes are great. If DS whinges on the weekly two hour motorway drive, I can just chuck them into the back with gay abandon, like I am feeding a flock of particularly healthy ducks.

It's not like they are actually food after all.

One particularly traffic heavy day we got through a whole packet.

supergreenuk there are other good sources of iron and potassium. Teeth are not so easily substituted. My post says that they are not advised as "snacks". They can be eaten as part of a main meal where adequate saliva production lessens there attack on teeth.

seems like he was given rubbish and then more rubbish? why do they push the unhealthy foods when it's a perfect chance to offer healthy snacks - rice cakes, bread sticks, grapes, cut up carrots and apple. not all parents give good balanced diets at home.

Our playgroup is all about the food.

Lots of fruit and biscuits and cake and posh cheese and bikkies.

Wine if we are feeling like it but mostly coffee.

The kids get the same as the adults sans wine and coffee.

Our toddler group offers oodles of fruit and biscuits. YANBU to think that that's a bit of a crap offering.