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?

toodles your post is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Toodles are you okay? You sound a little, um, vehement.

Say what you feel toodles dont hold back

toodles
Do you want some dinner? I think your blood sugars might be a bit weird.

My goodness Toodles What’s got your goat? What do you feed your kids?

Most ridiculous thing i've ever heard.

well if it is, boy are you going to enjoy Mumsnet.

You're not crap OP and I would let him have it if he'll eat it. I agree with Dust re salt content in cereals etc.

I feel quite bad now giving my 11mo dc3 a bit of my rice and korma curry from our takeaway now....

She bloody loves it though.

I would send it OP.

All things in moderation is just fine and good on you to be encouraging the child to eat pretty much what you do rather than 'child food'.

If your local Indian is like ours everything is cooked to order so if the leftovers when in the fridge they should reheat just fine. Any nursery staff reheating food should be trained sufficiently to know to heat food piping hot, leave to stand a minute or two if necessary.

General advice these days is to be cautious around rice. When mine were this age rice wasn't considered spawn of beelzebub and they had reheated rice on many occasions - albeit mostly from home meals since there were never leftovers from takeaway fried rice :)
That said, there were a great many things my kids ate happily which are now on the naughty list for children.

You know Indian food is some of the healthiest out there because of all the spices and veg yes a takeaway one will have more fat salt and sugar than a homemade one from scratch but its still good. send him in with a cold happymeal next time or some sugar sandwiches

Er, toodles you did read the OP didn't you? She said she wanted to give him some curry for lunch not a deep fried mars bar with chips. Or poison. Or a razor blade in a Tupperware box. Why the hysteria?

Not all Indian food is full of sugar and colouring. There will be salt but probably no more than a ham sandwich.

Many dishes are full of veg and pulses so quite healthy really despite a bit of fat and salt.

Laughing my arse off at Toodles

Also: YY to thanks for letting me know I'm crap
It should be the mumsnet talk sub heading.

Toodled is probably the type who believes in bland nursery food for the under fives and feeds her kids nothing more exciting than mashed potatoes.

I'd far prefer an adventurous eater who loves a curry, OP .

toodles, eat a snickers because you turn into a right diva when you're hungry

omg toodles

I disagreed on food hygiene grounds but a three year old and a take away curry is hardly worthy of such a reaction. gee.

there's a ton of sugar in cereal amd pasta sauce and the happy meals in Macdonalds.

bet yku kids run round soft play with fruit shoots just like everyone else's.

one meal out if several.

no big deal.

Every lunch time my son was telling me most of the boys in his class heat up their curries (home made) in the microwave (he's in the sixth form). He doesn't like curry and he doesn't like the smell. He's the only white boy in his particular class actually not that that's relevant as curry has overtaken fish and chips as the most popular British dish, whatever your cultural background. He tells me about it jokingly and I say putting up with things you don't like politely is an important bit of life.

Takeaway food is often very bad for you but it does depend on the food. Plenty of curries have no junk added and are just good veg, rice etc. So in terms of the quality of the good for the toddler here we cannot comment.

Wish my now 5 year old would eat curry! She used to but has turned into a very restricted eater flavour wise.
Hoping my 6 month old continues as he started-he loves his dhal!

My local Indian takeaway is amazing quality. Fresh ingredients cooked in front of you. I'd say it's infinitely better than most ready meals/jars of sauce.

Just had a PM from a researcher on the Wright stuff asking if they can use this thread and if I can call in on Friday???
Is there nothing more interesting going on in the world??

You should definitely say yes :)

My god, that's hilarious OP.

I've never even seen the Wright stuff...