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

[choceyes]

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.

[valiumredhead]

Moomin I sterilised for a year as ds was prem, then my very sensible sister in law laughed at me and I realised there was no point

[ChippingInToThePumpkinLantern]

Majestic - it might have been organic, but was it sugar free???

[Whatmeworry]

Only the finest organic spiders are good enough. But it was in a bit of jam, even a pickle :o

(It had disappeared down the gullet PDQ....)

[Moominsarescary]

I used to eat worms and mud, my mum says I could spot em a mile off

[Tierdmummy]

By looking through this post you may actually see why we have so many teenage eating problems tday. It really is shocking how you teach some of your children with food.
Get a grip pleaseeee!!!

[Bogeymanface]

i totally agree tierd, but which side of the fence are you on?

Are you a "Maccies is ok once in a while" mummy or a "All sugar is evil" mummy?

[Tierdmummy]

Ha why would I be All sugar is evil really??
It is that message that is making beautiful young teenagers and some younger children today soooo self aware and scared . Its a shock to most parents when they see children saying they feel fat, When there is nothing on them. But to some of the parents on here its no wonder they are growing up like that.
At the end of the day yes we should all try and eat healthy but what is wrong with the odd sugary treat or dare a say abit of jam.

[Bogeymanface]

Jam?! Jam is evil, EVIL I tells ya :o

I only asked because it could have been read either way, but FWIW I agree with you and for the same reasons.

[Bewilderedmum]

God - Sorry - am having a bit of a flashback here...

When Ds2 was 11 months - I was doing the careful weaning etc - fruit/veg, pureed into ice-cubes, frozen, defrosted, heated etc - actually - thats bollocks - that must have been the first 5-9 months - by 11 months he was almost certainly on proper food - please forgive - I can't quite remember - anyway - he was on finger foods I reckon, meals lightly chopped with me on heimlich manouevre standby ( my kid are 14 and 8 now so forgive lack of exact details...)

Aaanyways - owt green, he used to spit out, like it was radioactive. I was non-plussed, having his older brother munching spouts when he was at this point.

We lived in a very old cottage, with a festival of spiders and woodlice. It was just before he got on his feet properly. almost walking certainly, but crawling still when speed was required.

I used to spend hours scooping woodlice and spiders out of his mouth with much resistance. Eventually, I noticed a behavioural pattern. He would crouch, his eyes would narrow - something was in his sights, and he would hoof off in crawl mode very fast towards his prey. Just before reaching the spider, he would ease back, pause, then POUNCE - shoving it in his mouth.

If I was on top form, I would break the under 5ft 3 mummy hurdles record, and manage to retrieve a leg or two, whilst he looked at me in some bemusement as if to say "mum - if I'd known you were hungry I'd have save you some.."

One day, I was rather miffed. So I cooked some broccoli, tied it to a piece of string, and dragged it across the carpet to see what would happen.

Ds2 sighted it, cased it, homed in, narrowed eyes, crawled after it, eased, crouched, pounced - shoved it in his mouth with alacrity- and spat it out!!

"But he'll eat spider, and woodlice, and snot! SNOT's green!! Why not broccoli!!" I bleated to Dh, who shrugged...

He eats broccoli now. Both boy at 14 and 8 are skinny-ma-links doing well on a good diet

Not sure why I posted this really - except - erm - in relation to the poster - Is a jam sandwich out of a potential 21 main meals a week a really big deal - and certainly spaghetti hoops on toast aren't too bad x

[Bewilderedmum]

Actually, yeah - although I have nowt against jam sandwiches per se -I could imagine how you might be not best pleased about paying for care and meals, and a jam sandwich pops up as a regular weekly thing..

[Bogeymanface]

Bewildered Just off to bed but this made me a) laugh like a drain and b) remember the "But he will eat the carpet/the cat/his own feet!" drama! :o:o

[SlinkingOutsideInSocks]

Can't believe I have just ploughed through 22 - 22! - pages of histrionics over a jam sodding sandwich...

Choceyes - in my time on MN I have seen two threads started by you - both have gone on for ages and seen you flamed to high hell and back. Out of interest, are you the same Choceyes who used to post on Talking Point?

[Whatmeworry]

Jam coated broccoli on a string as the next child feeding fad - you know it makes sense :o