To think breakfast club should offer more than item?

[Ellieboolou27]

DD 4 has started reception, I booked her in breakfast club.

They offer either toast (with jam/marmalade) orcereal.
The cereal is multi grain shapes, weetabix, cookie crisp, chocolate boulders, Frosties.
I'm not too impressed by choices of cereal but hey ho, however my dd asked for toast and cereal and they said it's either / or!

Now, I'm not a fuss pot helicopter mum by any means, however I was a bit miffed as it seems quite poor.
My mum runs a breakfast and after school club, she's been doing it for 18 years and she agreed with me that this was poor offerings.

So, would I BU to take it up with the school? They are a "healthy eating" accredited school btw.
My mums clubs offer, fruit, yoghurt, cereal and toast, cereals such as porridge, fruit n fibre, etc, kids also get 2 or 3 choices.

[HighwayDragon1]

We pay 4.50 for breakfast club, they get 2 portions of something. So a piece of toast and small bowl of cereal, or a large bowl of cereal, or 2 pieces of toast or toast and a yogurt or cereal and a yogurt. Years 5 and 6 are allowed 3 portions.

[Ellieboolou27]

Thanks for all the responses.

In answer to some of the questions raised....

Dd goes to breakfast club as I work (yes, one poster actually said that)

I pay £4 for 45 minutes - I would have NO issues paying slightly more for a better brekkie

We are up at 6, leave the house at 7.20 (I have a one year old too who I have to attend to) and dd WILL not eat anything until she's fully awake bar a glass of warm milk, despite me trying to wake her up earlier, she is exhausted from starting full time school.

The breakfast club offers her ONE slice of toast and she won't eat crusts (hoping she might now though )

The school is very strict regarding packed lunches, hence I'm a bit about the cereal choices

It is run by paid staff employed by the school who work for the school.

I think I will raise it as although my dd wont starve, I'd rather her not have cookie crisp 3 X a week!
I mean what kid will choose weetabix over chocolate sugar coated junk!

At home she will have one slice toast AND small bowl cereal, or boiled egg on toast and always a warm milk.
We don't do snack really so she's used to 3 meals as opposed to eating every few hours.

[callycat1]

I know Piglet but I don't imagine many parents send their children to breakfast club then swan off to watch Jeremy Kyle.

[PassTheCremeEggs]

Skiver I was quoting Jizz - I said in my post after that I had a bold fail in my quoting paragraph. I don't think it's greedy at all to have both. As you would see from the rest of my post...

[Proudmummytodc2]

My DS goes to breakfast club he's 5 just started primary 1

He has 45 mins at breakfast club and we pay 20p a day and he gets toast, cereal and fresh fruit juice - apple or orange ect

I feel this is really good value as I don't actually work but he doesn't eat till he's woken up a bit but I have my DS to get to school, DD to nursery and DH to work so it comes in handy for me even though I don't work.

[January87]

Ours is free (although there's no supervision, it's breakfast and out). Kids get cereal (choice of wheetabix, rice krispies, cornflakes, shreddies), toast and either apple or orange juice or milk. On Friday it is beans on toast with juice/milk. They can have cereal and toast if they like or one or the other.

[DropZoneOne]

Ours offers cereals, toast, yoghurt and fruit. It's £6.50 so I'd expect a decent breakfast for that! Not sugary cereals - not just because it's a healthy school (whatever that means) but more because the lady that runs it had a telling off from the dentist a while back as her son needed a filling and she overhauled the snacks and food so there was more savoury and less sweet.

[Ellieboolou27]

callycat exactly! I would NOT put my 4 year old ,who has just started reception into breakfast club unless I had to, which in my case is because I work

[KindDogsTail]

"They offer either toast (with jam/marmalade) orcereal.
The cereal is multi grain shapes, weetabix, cookie crisp, chocolate boulders, Frosties.
I'm not too impressed by choices of cereal but hey ho, however my dd asked for toast and cereal and they said it's either / or!"

That club breakfast is junk food, except for the milk on the cereal and the added vitamins in the ceral. What sort of toast is it, I wonder? I think you should take it up with the school.

Also, your daughter should be eating as much as she needs. I am sorry you are having to use this option. It is lucky she is having the milk at home first.

[OhtoblazeswithElvira]

£4

Even without that YANBU OP. Either / or is really stingy and cereal like frosties or cornflakes shitinabox is not very nutritious or filling.

Apart from that MN has now taught me that I am Unusual And Greedy because I have both Weetabix and toast for breakfast (and a cup of tea! So there!)

[Trifleorbust]

I think for £4 you're not being unreasonable. I suppose it depends how well attended it is as well.

[SaucyJack]

It's all very sweet. Is there not even a jar of Marmite put out to add a bit of variety?

Sounds a bit grim.

[NewBallsPlease00]

We pay £6 for 730-855 (school drop off) and breakfast is cereal (apricot mini wheats, wheetabox, multi grain cereal, Cheerios) toast squash water milk sometimes crumpets or tea cakes - they choose what they want.

[Sirzy]

I don't mind the either or thing too much, but I wouldn't be impressed at that choice of cereals.

I'm not sure how a bowl of cookies can class as a cereal really!

[RubbleBubble00]

my dc school have stopped having jam for toast as its not 'healthy'. Poor eldest dc offered to bring them in jam if they couldn't afford it. He really likes a smudge of jam on his toast

[RubbleBubble00]

I'd actually raise it about the cereal choice - madness for healthy eating school

[Want2bSupermum]

My elder two are huge eaters at breakfast and hardly eat anything for lunch, dinner or supper. DS has managed to eat three huge bowls of porridge more than once. DD has eaten 4 slices of toast, starting with cheese, ham and tomato slices to the last two having peanut butter on them.

Honestly it is a slice of toast in addition to a bowl of cereal. There are some fights worth fighting and in my world this isn't one the school breakfast club should be fighting. Food should be there if you are hungry and it is important the kids learn how to recognize their are full.

[linspins]

Our school breakfast club has different things each day, such as cereal, toast, strawberries and blueberries, bacon and eggs, crumpets, yoghurts etc. I'd quite like to book myself in....yum yum.
The children can eat several selections of food, but never seem to over eat. Small kids generally know how much they need.

[bumsexatthebingo]

My kids don't have cereal and toast. They have 1 carby thing so that would be either toast, cereal, a crumpet, a pancake etc with fruit and sometimes yoghurt as well. So I'm not surprised they aren't letting them just eat mounds of toast or sugary cereal. I would expect fresh fruit to be available though.

[SerenaVanDerWoodsen]

I had a similar problem last year. I spoke to the head and she agreed with the points I made. So now there are only healthy cereals and wholemeal/granary toast. The children can have either or both. DD is a lot happier as am I.

[madein1995]

For 4 pounds YANBU about the choices. I've seen as well small children eat lots when having a spurt. Tbh if they're giving one slice of toast a bit of cereal too or another slice toast is fine. I thought you'd meant 2 bits toast and cereal which I think is much. I think they should change the cereal options to be healthier and less chocolatey/appealing to littlies and then only offer seconds if asked by the child. And no thirds. I don't think expecting more than 1 slice of toast is BU, I didn't realise that was what they are giving. Seriously bread and jam for 4 quid, what planet are they on, for that price they could easily lay on some eggs and a bit of fresh fruit and yogurt - and then it'd be fruit and yogurt to start and a slice of toast/cereal if asked, and that's it. None of that sweet sugary yogurt either, plain full fat yogurt. Can't believe in this day and age they think it fine to give that crap to kids when they'd probably object to chocolate in lunch box

[FeelingSmurfy]

I think part of the problem with talking about it on here is that portion sizes vary greatly, so cereal only person could have more food and calories than cereal and toast person etc

I would expect healthier cereal, but probably white bread because likely to be less waste

[RunningLulu]

DC school offers 2 options: either 1 hot option (porridge or scrambled egg or 2 boiled eggs) with 1 piece of toast, a glass of milk, and some fruit or yoghurt. Or 1 cold option (cereal) with a glass of juice, some fruit/yoghurt. Fridays they offer more options like kedgeree and bacon or sausage. I pay £3 per day (for both DC) for that and think it's pretty good value. But yeah like others said I don't see why cereal should come with toast - carb overload!

[TheChippendenSpook]

I pay £1.50 a day for Breakfast Club. Ds has breakfast at home and just asks for a glass of water when he arrives there so I can't tell you what they are offered.

[londonrach]

Im an adult and id only eat one or the other. Its too much to have both Surely especially for a child. My 6 foot husband occasionally has both though. Agree re the sugar loaded cereal but cant imagine any child having both. My sisters two just have cereal (porriage at moment being a favourite! --i blame my parents eating porriage in front of them when they stay). Maybe talk to school re choice of cereals. How much do they charge.