to question nursery as to why they are serving jam sandwiches to babies?

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My DD is 14 months old and goes to nursery 3 days a week.

I won't know whether I am being precious or not, but it annoys me that occassionally she gets given jam sandwiches and also tinned spaghetti hoops on toast for her afternoon snack. I would never give these things to her at home. She always has healthy stuff, no treats at all, cos she is not a big eater, so I don't want to fill her up with junk.

My DS, 3yrs, is also at the same nursery, but there's nothing much I can do to stop him eating jam sarnies, as he would want to eat what his friends eat. and as he eats fairly well most of the time he can afford to have the occassional junk.

The nursery lunches are fine, and they also do fruit, chesse, crackers, tuna sandwiches for afternoon snack , so this probably happens about once a week I guess (i mean she gets either jam sarnies or hoops on toast maybe once a week, the rest of the meals are fine).

I dunno really. I was talking to a friend about it at the weekend and she was appalled at the jam sarnies, so got me thinking maybe I should say something to the manager.

I'm not in anyway a health freak, and against giving kids sugar, but not at 14 months, it's too young for me. And the nursery serves them to kids above 12 months I think.

It's just there is NO nutritional value in jam sarnies. I@d rather they gave her a flapjack or something (and they sometimes for the older ones dessert), which although has sugar, has got good things in it too.

I think she started it to stealth boast about her superior parenting!
"Not just a jaaaaam sandwich but a 100% fruit jaaaam sandwich on better bread"
I have an organic veggie box ,cook everything from scratch and my teenagers are healthy and will eat anything and I have sent them to school with ...... LEMON CURD sandwiches before . They are fine luckily unharmed ..

I agree that curry noodles are well of of order.. My dc's wouldn't eat them either. The would ask where the chicken ones were.

Oh I see, that's interesting about peanut butter.
Oh chocolate has to be dark and of the highest quality, otherwise it is not a treat

FFS OP, have you nothing else to stress and moan about than something this trivial?
My DD (aged 10 mnths at the time) used to sometimes have Wotsits at nursery. Yes, actual WOTSITS and not those Organix healthy maize sticks.
Do you know what? Nothing bad happened.
Stop being a stuck up, snobby arse.

I have also shared a jam sandwich with my toddler today - it was homemade jam OP if that helps?

I wonder what the poor menfolk make of these yummy mummies>

I expect their ears must start to bleed when they come home from work to hear inane drivel about appointments to see the nursery manager to discuss spaghetti hoops.

My dp would be like -'get a grip'.

Franca That's true, cadburys cream eggs are definitely not a treat but standard food for us.

Our school is very about this privately run tuck shop and has restricted it to primary 6 and 7 - but there will be children spending their dinner money on this crapola and parents are powerless. If it sold jam sandwiches frankly I would be delighted.

And they can shove their healthy lunchbox ideas where the sun don'tshine TBH.

Well, dd learned to LOVE supernoodles . I decided that I liked the nursery's feel, lovely staff, almost no staff turnover (except for maternity cover), outside space, range of toys, and that my dd was very very happy there. So I learned to live with her having supernoodles once a week...
There's more at stake here than the odd jam sandwich.

lol at Alice.

Wotsits sarnies are the best.

No, Wotsits dipped in cheese sauce are the best!

I haven't tried wotsits dipped in cheesesauce!

Might be a slight cheese overload.

God and your fingers would STINK.

No, just tip a packet of Wotsits onto cauliflower cheese or macaroni cheese and eat with a fork!

"I do think that most of the posters who say their dc's love healthy food only give them healthy, which is it not a good attitude to food at all"

I am not sure how you can infer that: it's the same as saying "if you give your DC spaghetti hoops than the rest of their diet is also going to be shite". Not necessarily. My DD loves all sorts of food, and If I have something I will always offer it to her to try, unless it's very hot/spicy. I bake with her every weekend or thereabouts, but she is more interested in baking the cake than in eating it. She is as likely to ask for some chocolate or a glass of milk or an apple. And I see no problem in giving any of the above to her. If I saw the spaghetti hoops on the kindergarten menu, however...

Oh you eat it with a fork?

Well posh

Sunrays I must admit that in my years in the UK I never actually ever tasted a Cadbury's cream egg .

Minerva,

Do you honestly never, ever eat spaghetti on toast? Ever?

I shall start a book of Wotsit recipes :)

my shrimp and Wotsit omelette is deservedly famous.

Carmen
Me and Minerva are from Italy we'd never do that

It would be like a British drinking tea with lemon, instead of milk (or something similar! Can't think of anything else )

I shall wait for the wotsit recipe book with interest. Please may i have signed copy.

No i dont really find it hard to believe that someone British doesn't have spaghetti on toast. I find it hard to believe that most of the posters on here have never had it though.

More likely that they were sometimes given it as a kid, but are too snobby for it now. A bit like those posters who turn their noses up as Cadbury chocolate and only eat Green & Blacks.

I have got tins of spaghetti in my cupboard, but they play a very small part in a family diet. In fact the last time I had some was in the summer when we went camping.

In a few months, when she is eating more solids, yes we will include her in our treats too occassionally

At 14 months I would assume your dd would be eating solids all the time. I am curious as to what her daily diet is.

Ah Franca i see1

I class tinned spaghetti as something totally different to spaghetti as in 'normal' pasta.

I can see how an Italian might be insulted to see spaghetti all chopped up in a tin with sugary bright orange sauce1

The trick is to imagine them totally different foodstuffs