To send my toddler to nursery with takeaway curry?!

[Mooey89]

I send my 3 year old DS to nursery with lunch and tea. Usually a sandwich/something on toast and then leftovers from the night before, spaghetti bolognaise, shepherds pie etc.
Tonight DP and I are having curry (takeaway) - non spicy vegetable based.
There's bloody shitloads left over!
He eats anything and everything, loves curry when I make one, very confident he will eat it.

DP said it would be an 'epic parenting fail' to send him with it, I think it's fine as a one off...

AIBU?

I'd do exactly what SDTG says, give it to him for his tea... and ignore the hysterics on the thread who are treated you like an imbecile, OP. I've never seen a thread so riddled before...

Just remembered that you send in lunch and tea - send the curry in with a pita bread then you needn't be concerned about the rice issues. Or send in a pack of ready cooked (and sealed) rice from Mr Ben.

I've always stored leftover rice in the fridge and re-heated in a wok.

As others have said, due to hygiene wotsits, they probably wouldn't reheat the rice, so just give it for tea at home.

I wouldn't from a food safety point of view. Takeaways can be dodgy, you have no idea if the food was left sitting in the shop or whether it has already been reheated. I reheat takeaway at home but only within a short window and making sure it will be piping hot.

I know anecdote doesn't equal data and all that jazz but I shall share my experience anyway. I eat rice maybe twice a week and always make extra to take into work the next day which I reheat in the microwave. I'm also immunosuppressed. I remain alive, despite my risky rice eating habits.

Hahaha

I just can't believe they heat up food that's been sent in by the parents. I've never heard of that before. Must take ages! Surely far safer and probably quicker to cook 1 meal for all the children?

Of course it is fine, my daughter would only eat indian food ( i cooked a lot) but would not have an issue in sending her in with a decent takeaway curry.

Does every takeaway use huge amounts of salt then?
Where I live some do, some don't, and you can ask for less/none.

I would send it OP, it's a perfectly good meal.

I've just started sending my 6yr old in with curry and rice in his thermos. It loves it, adds to the (home made ) doner kebab, lasagna, sausage mash and beans that I sometimes send.

YANBU.

I used to work in a nursery that they tooktheir own food it takes ages to sort we had 2 lunch sittings though

I'm not saying you shouldn't but our school specifically said in guidelines for packed lunches that "the previous day's left-overs" were not acceptable. I don't really see why - at home I'd give them leftovers as long as they were still edible, so why not for school. I just wish my kids would have eaten a vegetable curry aged 3.

I guess it is a responsibility and health and safety or something

our school specifically said in guidelines for packed lunches that "the previous day's left-overs" were not acceptable

I'd be telling them that their guidelines were not acceptable. Bloody cheek.

I wouldn't.

not worried about the salt content or another person's opinions over whether it's junk or suitable etc

I would just have concerns that nursery may not heat it up enough. it may not he hot enough for long enough in order to make said meal sage after being out a fridge all morning and the fact taht it may have sat around ir have already been re heated when prepared at the takeaway itself

absolutely nothing wrong with eating takeaway once in a while. I'm saying no on a food hygiene basis. nothing else

Of course most people reheat leftovers, and are fine.

Nurseries have to follow safety guidelines, they can't choose to ignore them. You might dab arnica on a bump, or choose to let your child play in strong sun, or leave them alone with a dog....nurseries can't do that.

Reheated rice counts as high risk.

My DD's nursery specifically says 'no rice' in their packed lunch guidelines, so I'd skip that. DD1 loves chicken tikka bhuna and Bombay aloo, so I'd send it.

Can't believe the nursery that won't let parents send in left overs! How do they distinguish what is left over and what isn't? I regularly batch cook and pre portion for nursery food, what's the difference? otherwise how do you do it? Cook a fresh meal at 7 every morning?

Ha! Trying to diet! Hence the leftover last night and trying to get rid of it!
Have DS some and then binned it!

I just can't believe they heat up food that's been sent in by the parents. I've never heard of that before. Must take ages! Surely far safer and probably quicker to cook 1 meal for all the children?

Like all the children would or could eat the same meal?

Many parents cant even get a handle on that one, so good luck to the nursery staff.

I would send it in, put it in your usual microwavable container and he'll love it.

My daughter would love to have curry or dahl in her lunch box but they aren't allowed hot food for school lunches unless having the lunch made by school. She says they have horrible tasteless curries and chilli etc. I did buy a thermos mug type container but had a letter home saying it wasn't allowed, not even soup.

I wouldn't but it's your kid.. Better than the kid that got sent in with leftover KFC at a school I worked at..

Reheating your own rice isn't a risk if you have cooled it quickly but reheating ANYTHING from a takeaway is. If you do this normaly and never get sick then you are either lucky or have iron guts. I run a food business so not just scaremongerIng.

Totally fine! I wish my toddler would eat more tasty foods.