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.

hocus As someone said upthread, its the obsession with a normal diet being "what an adult woman needs to eat to lose weight" rather than "what a child needs to grow and develop".
Hence some idiots people feeding their kids skimmed milk and celery sticks

Why especially white bread though AKMD (genuine question btw, not being argumentative [hgrin])? As far as I can see, that link is about ALL mass produced bread, not just white bread?

Because I'm just biased and unreasonable that way. If it helps, I think wholemeal pizza bases are shockingly awful :o

OMG

That is all

[hgrin] I think "I'm biased and unreasonable" is actually a perfectly reasonable answer

Cheap bread is cheap bread. Cheap wholemeal bread is just as likely to have preservatives (the real problem IMO) and salt as white bread. In fact, it will probably have more salt because it is harder to make it taste ok. A decent loaf of white bread is a different matter - tasty, easy to digest and healthy enough. I give my dcs white bread because they can't handle wholemeal.

Jam sandwiches seem a good afternoon snack to me. Sweet enough to be appetizing but also filling. My dcs childcare is very stingy about afternoon tea and I was thinking of sending in a jam sandwich for a snack.

And I think refusing to give children any salt or sugar is extreme and neurotic ( and I thought I was neurotic about food).

Oh no, Lobelia, WE don't eat jam sandwiches, WE eat lovely cauliflower and celery pieces.....

I know. It just soothes my parental guilt over not getting up at 4am to bake fresh bread every day if the fat/water/salt/flour mix has some pretty seeds on top. DS doesn't even like sandwiches so it's no biggie :)

It's all so flippin' joyless isn't it

I like fancy bread with pretty seeds on it (especially the purple Hovis one!) but there's just something so wrong about having jam or chocolate spread on wholemeal bread even with pretty seeds. It just tastes weird. Its savoury bread, for savoury fillings [hgrin]

I think rye bread with jam is lovely! ( how many posters are off to get jam sandwiches - my mind turns to the new fig jam a friend gave me...)

I've heard on the grapevine that my own dd enjoys a bit of a jam sandwich herself. I never have, so we don't have any jam in the house. I have to say, though, I do agree with the posters who have found this thread making them hungry. It really makes me feel like I'd like to give jam another whirl!

Obesity is rising for a reason

And that reason is the deadly Jam Sandwich?

Not the decrease in exercise as anxious mummees keep kids indoors, and Elf and Safety bans anything rumbustious that kids like to do. Not the increased fat in the increasengly consumed processed foods....

No just say no...

It starts with the jam sandwich but before you know it you will be devouring buckets of Ben n' Jerry's chock chunk with a battered sausage chaser. Your children will become fat and your middle class friends will drop you like a hot chip.

Stick to goats cheese and avocados, the acceptable route to obesity

But it is unreasonable not to put peanut butter on the jam in the sandwich.....

Nothing I have seen here has convinced me otherwise - no one needs spaghetti hoops once a week, Heinz or otherwise. Why just not have some pasta salad, made with pasta and proper tomato sauce (or one of the millions recipes you can put together)?

And I am still shocked at the amount of people who still think it's OK that nursery food should be worse quality than, say, my very good work canteen or what I make at home. Of course the menu should be designed by a professional to suit children's nutritional needs (as opposed to adults'), but the food, whatever it is, should be high quality. As long as we accept low quality stuff, nurseries and schools will continue to serve low quality stuff.

I would classify jam on a bit of white Hovis as a processed food.

The best bread I ever had was at a YH in Germeny - they baked it with butter and it was yummy. I'm very glad I can't find it here because I would be mahoosive.

*Germany :)

Omg, whatmeworry, I think you will start a riot!

Completely agree with whatme... obesity levels rising have sod all to do with diet.. and everything to do with a lack of physical exercise...

The worst bread I have ever had was homemade by DH. He thought a tsp of salt was a TABLEspoon!!
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Excellent, in that case I will go out, stuff myself silly on sausages rolls and go for a walk afterwards.

Ewwww, massively salty bread! The first loaf I made was put out for the birds and went mouldy because not even they would touch it :(

Not quite sure its "sod all" to do with diet, and I write that as a supporter of the jam sandwich!! [hgrin]
No exercise is a problem, but then not helped by a seven year old child having cooked dinner (not eating any veg), two bowls of ice cream, a bowl of custard, a packet of biscuits, and a 200g bar of chocolate in the space of a few hours ...
yes I know this child. she weighs over ten stone :(