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AIBU?

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To ask nursery to Cease and Desist feeding DS chips?

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CubiksRube · 05/09/2011 20:20

DS has been at nursery for a couple of weeks; he is 7 months old.

Once per week - according to his activity book - DS has been feed 'fish and chips' or 'burger, chips and beans' for lunch.

I appreciate he is PFB and nobody but me would want to spend an hour baking mackeral fillet with herbs, and braising savoy cabbage for a baby who will, inevitably, tip half of it on the floor.

However. Fish and chips? For a 7-month-old? At some point, he was going to eat these things but I didn't imagine it would be now. I want to tell them to stop ... or to offer to bring in some baked sweet potato wedges ... but am I being one of Those Mummies?!

DS is also already rather, erm, large. 95th centile or thereabouts, and does tend towards gluttony. He has gotten larger since nursery started, and I do wonder if the diet has anything to do with it.

So. AIBU?

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RedHotPokers · 05/09/2011 20:39

Definitely ask the nursery for more info.

I was annoyed when DD kept coming home from school (reception) saying she was having chips, EVERY DAY! As StrandedBear said, it turned out they were other types of potato in disguise.

Roast potatoes, saute potatoes, homemade oven chips, potato wedges, potato skins.... To DD they were all just chips!

CheerfulYank · 05/09/2011 20:39

If it really bothers you, you can say something. When I worked in a nursery the mums who spoke up were deferred to. Yes, you will be "that mummy" :) but nursery workers are very keen to please "that mummy", at least in my experience.

What was the goody bag for? That does seem like an odd thing to give a baby.

Oven chips aren't terrible, but I do know how you feel. Our daycare lady served food I never would, or at least only would very rarely (chicken nuggets, tater tots, canned fruit, white bread and pasta, etc, etc) but in the end the good outweighed the bad so we sucked it up. I'm a little relieved he's going to be done there, though! :) (He's 4 now and will be in preschool every day.)

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CubiksRube · 05/09/2011 20:40

Footprintsofthemoon - not a clue where goody bag came from. It was thrust into my hands as I walked out of the door.

Perhaps AIBU, a bit. DS does not know that chips are chips. They are in fact simply potatoes and maybe I am just projecting my own food snobbery onto the situation.

DS is happy at nursery, they are kind to him adn do lots of activities. I will simply ask how the chips are cooked and if they are fried, ask that they are baked.

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c0vb1rd · 05/09/2011 20:40

Our nursery doesn't serve chips which I'm
Glad about as now dd who has recently turned 3 sees them as a treat once in a while. It sits in the junk food category and isn't promoting healthy eating.

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CubiksRube · 05/09/2011 20:42

CheerfulYank - that's exactly it! I want him to eat what I would feed him ... however I have chosen to go back to work and have forfeited my 'right' to feed him exactly as I would want.

Glad your DS has escaped the tater tots!

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SouthernFriedTofu · 05/09/2011 20:43

They gave a 7 month old a bag of haribo to take home? I'd question the whole place based on that tbh. I don't think questioning the chips is pfb at all especially in refrence to a 7 month old

SouthernFriedTofu · 05/09/2011 20:44

Tatertots are a mostly unknown entity in the UK cheerful sadly :( Could have done with when pg with dd1!

bibbitybobbityhat · 05/09/2011 20:44

Yanbu. Chips not a good choice for a 7 month old. What sort of food did they say he would be given when you looked round the nursery?

Northernlurkerr · 05/09/2011 20:45

Oh Tofu - maybe nobody has told them that Haribo is a Class A drug and those who 'push' it plainly unfit to have charge of children.

DoMeDon · 05/09/2011 20:45

YABU - it's potatoes - no big deal in relation to a balanced diet - and I am 'that mummy' about lots of things - no jars, organic, blah blah

CheerfulYank · 05/09/2011 20:46

How often is he there? I reasoned that it was only five meals a week, out of the twenty odd he would have. So not great, but I just made sure to serve more healthful choices at home.

dreamingbohemian · 05/09/2011 20:46

If you find out they are fried, it might be better to just ask that they not give him any, they won't have time to prepare single portions differently for different kids.

If it's any reassurance my DS was in the 95th percentile from birth until 13 months or so, and very round, but is now having a growth spurt and growing in height not weight. I don't think you should worry about it at 7 months, it's still really young.

AitchTwoOh · 05/09/2011 20:46

absolutely query the chips, i would. i query everything, but that includes the nursery's insistence on giving my child sugar-free crap rather than good old sugar (because other neurotic parents went into a tizz over some jelly... )

i bet the haribo was a party bag. quite common here for parents to bring in party bags for the kids when it's their child's birthday, but of course the nursery says 'oh THANKYOU' and then cannot hand them out as, well, it's haribo. which is why you get handed them and eat them yourself.

maypole1 · 05/09/2011 20:48

To be honest it depends the nursery I used to work at served tesco value food to e honest

You are paying a company to took after your child

They are looking after there bottom line your bog standard nursery won't be serving anything that good

Really expensive nursery might have very posh nosh

But you basically get what you pay for and if you not looking after the child your self and handing your first born to a company then you can't really expect better

This is why if I had to work I would go for a childminder as you can either take your own food or be assured the mider will be cooking normal dinners

CheerfulYank · 05/09/2011 20:48

They're pretty prevalent here in Minnesota as we take great pride in our tater tot hotdish. :o

I don't think we gave the babies chips at the nursery I worked at, come to think of it.

RitaMorgan · 05/09/2011 20:48

Chips and burgers does seem like an odd choice for a baby room to me - do they puree it? Give it as finger food? Of course it could be all homemade from scratch.

I think I'm lucky that ds's nursery has a fully staffed kitchen. They do serve some fatty food though, macaroni cheese, cake and custard etc. It's mostly quite homely school dinners type of food.

CheerfulYank · 05/09/2011 20:49

You could say that you'd rather he didn't have them. I don't think it would be a huge deal.

TheSecondComing · 05/09/2011 20:49

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Northernlurkerr · 05/09/2011 20:49

Children do need fat in their diet. They're supposed to grow and they need fuel for that. Chips every day would clearly be apalling but that isn't the case.

MmeLindor. · 05/09/2011 20:50

YABU

You child will eat chips. He will eat Haribo (maybe not at 7 mths, to be fair). He may even eat a sausage roll or drink a fruit shoot.

As long as they are not feeding him chips and burgers every day, and the rest of the meals are decent, then I would not worry about it.

And don't worry about his "diet" or his weight. Once he starts moving, the weight will drop off.

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CubiksRube · 05/09/2011 20:51

The haribo was indeed in a party bag/good bag type thing. And it was a mini bag of haribo. And DP and I ate it. AitchtwoOh, you've got the measure of us!

CheerfulYank, he's there 5 days per week, 7.30am - 6pm. I work in the City and even those hours are pushing it a bit for my employers unfortunately.

bibbity, I wasn't under the impression he'd be fed lentils and asparagus, but chips weren't mentioned at all, put it that way.

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Northernlurkerr · 05/09/2011 20:51

Hysterical Concerned parents may be able to get their priorities straight regarding issues with food by having a look at this

SouthernFriedTofu · 05/09/2011 20:52

Oh Tofu - maybe nobody has told them that Haribo is a Class A drug and those who 'push' it plainly unfit to have charge of children. No just babies

bibbitybobbityhat · 05/09/2011 20:53

How can anyone say she is BU???

He is 7 months old ffs! Of course he will eat chips and Haribo in due course, but not at 7 months. I am terribly slack relaxed about food, but chips at 7 months? - no, its not good enough.

Mspontipine · 05/09/2011 20:55

Ds's school has been using the same school dinner supplier for approx 2.5 years and they have listed chips on a daily menu option once in all that time!! Oven chips at that - I remember it well as it was so unusual!!

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