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?

My ils are Chinese. They cook A LOT of rice. Reheat it very regularly. As they did along with one or two others in Hong Kong. No reports of food poisoning. I've never suffered from it either and my food storage ano reheating habits are questionable at best

As a mother of a highly allergic child (a condition totally irrelevant to this thread but for the fact that this means I have been carefully reading the labels of food and researching many of the strange crap substances/chemicals they put on food, for more than 10 years) I can say...

Get down from your high horses, if your children eat crisps, anything whose packaging has cartoons, get pre prepared food (including fish fingers, baked beans, etc) you are as bad as this unfortunate woman who let her child have some takeaway curry.

And don't start me on sugar intake...

I'd only say no, because I can't get my head around the idea of having any takeaway left over 😉
If he'd eat it, I would, but I'd check that they will reheat the rice to boiling hot and then allow to cool, rather an just warming it up a bit

ooops! didn't realise there were other 3 pages...

DD's nursery used to quite happily reheat food, and DD routinely had leftovers. I would have been stuffed if they had not been allowed (although how anyone would tell the difference between a portion of the shepherds pie we all ate and a shepherds pie which had been made especially for her, I have no idea)

It was before the dangers of reheating rice were widely known, and she often had reheated risotto, which I probably wouldn't do now but never had any problems with it at all.

I wouldn't give a 6 month old takeaway curry because of the salt but at three it's fine I'd have thought.

I'm with others though, sending two meals a day sounds like a killer!

For the love of sweet baby Jesus

Someone please tell me..

How do you send something on toast? Is it old toast? Do the nursery toast said toast?

I need to know

Also curry fine

Re rice- is it ok to eat last nights takeaway pilau rice if it's been in the fridge all night and DS eats it cold for breakfast?

As a one off it will be fine.

It's good for kids to experiwnce eating all kinds of foods, good and bad. That way less stuff becomes "forbidden fruit" with all the curiosity and desires that enforces when older. Kids that never get a look in at "unhealthy" shit are the ones ramming it down their throats at the first opportunity of freedom in later years.

Everything in moderation.

Pop some in your own container and send it in with your child. I'm sure he'll enjoy it.

Send it in. Life's too short to waste good food.

fancypuffin I send a slice of bread - nursery toast it, and a little pot of beans or what have you.
My Tupperware bill is astronomical!

Update on curry gate for those who might be waiting with baited breath - DS ate the lot.

Good i wasnt wishing food poisoning on him honestly i tellsya you lot live on the edge id have binned it. This made facebook

Thank you Mooey89 I was imagining really cold and slimey beans on toast in a Tupperware box

Glad the curry was a success.

I made Facebook?
Mumsnet dream!

Yip you have arrived

Salt police are out in force One curry isn't going to hurt!

Not always the parents fault Artandco.

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Its high in salt but shouldnt do any harm as a one off and if you put it in your own container you wont get anyone being judgemental if thats what you are afraid of? i personally wouldnt judge anyone for sending in a child with left over takeaway, i might if it was every week but not once in a blue moon. xx

Oh i see you did it! Good for you!! xx

Vegetable curry? Of course send it in! Billions of people all around world eat curry and spicy food everyday.

Send some bread to mop it up with instead of rice, if you're not sure how old the rice is, or are worried about it.

It's fine. The salty issue is a one off, so not a massive problem.
Rice is perfectly ok to be reheated once as long as it's thoroughly, and was put in sealed box in fridge not left out.

Id put it in my own container tho!

Agree with leaving out rice... But sounds great! A balanced diet is what they have over the week not in one curry. Maybe add some cooked chicken or potato.... Sounds great

Most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. How old are you? You do not that takeaways and indian in particular contains massive amounts of sugar, salt, colouring etc. You want to give this to a 3 year old? My God woman, just because he likes certain things doesn't mean they are good for him. Takeaway Indian for a 3 year old. Ridiculous

Ah right, see, I was going for the 'everything in moderation approach.'

He doesn't have processed Food often, and I don't add salt or sugar to anything.

I can see why it might flummox you though, if you regularly feed your child processed things with added salt and sugar.