To change nursery because of menu options

[Confusedwithcake1]

So I'm returning to work soon and my LO will attend the local nursery for 2 days a week when 11months old. When I chose the nursery I was happy with the care, location etc and at the time I was happy with the menu options.

Fast forward now and I've looked at the menu options and now I think I want to look for a new nursery. Specifically because they serve cake as a pudding (wasn't on previous sample menu)

Don't get me wrong I love cake and know that LO will eat cake at parties but I was just hoping that a nursery setting would provide something less junkie.

My DH thinks it's fine as it's only 2 days a week but I'm not so sure as it seems unnecessary for a 11month old.. so aibu to try and find a new nursery based on one sample menu that lists cake as a pudding?

confused no.

In fact I'd probably choose the nursery which offered cake over the one that didn't

I remember being like this when my PFB was around this age - he was still happily gobbling up broccoli and organic carrots and got a bit angsty about maintaining the quality of his diet (didn't even like him eating shop-bought bread FFS!). The only 'cake' he ate was homemade muffins that were only sweetened with fruit purées.

I hated it when he went to our (wonderful) childminder and things like cake and processed sausages started turning up in his diet.

He then got a little bit older, hit the toddler fussy period and I was frankly delighted when he would eat anything other than white bread and babybel. Seriously, if you get through toddlerhood without despairing at your child's diet you are lucky indeed.

In the grand scheme of things a little bit of sponge cake once or twice a week is nothing.

I am amazed by the amount of people who believe cakes are junk, but are happy to feed their kids with children sweet yogurts - the most unhealthy thing ever , or kids cereals, which are barely more than sugar.

It's so difficult to find healthy food in England. I am always so excited by the choice of yogurts on the continent for example.

I know the thread's moved on, but I think it would be perfectly acceptable for you to ask if your child can have a plain yoghurt or fruit instead.

To answer your question I would want a nursery that offers a varied menu, that caters well for allergies or specific dietary requirements as you don't know what'll crop up and that makes the food on site.

That's what I looked for, puddings I'm not so worried about (but my daughter isn't that fussed and usually only has half her pudding anyway so if she was different I might think differently).

All things being equal, potentially, but all things are never equal.

There's nothing wrong with cake. Demonising particular foods is more unhealthy in my opinion.

I'd have a look at how many times they have yogurt. In my experience yogurt get serves far too much. It's an easy pudding and quite cheap. Some nurseries have it every day.
And then there's my nursery at the moment that does a rice dish for lunch followed by rice pudding.

I feel sorry for the children who aren't allowed pudding. Must be horrible to watch everyone else have it.

Yabu. At school they get a pudding everyday, alongside a lovely healthy dinner (that I'm often jealous of).

I'm so glad I've managed to get my DC's to adulthood. In my day picking childcare was more about their safety and happiness.

I moaned when nursery stopped doing cake because if she didn't like the main meal I could be sure she'd eat something.

I feel sorry for the children who aren't allowed pudding. Must be horrible to watch everyone else have it

Oh for goodness sake. People get ridiculous on MN about how vital it is that children are never denied sugar.

How many 11 month old's are going to feel deprived if they've got a bloody yoghurt instead of cake?

Probably more sugar in the yoghurt than the cake tbh.

also have adult child/ren- the only one who didn't go bingeing at parties/sleepovers were mine who had unrestricted access to a wide range of foods and wasn't 'treated' or bribed with / rewarded with 'nice food' and the kids with allergies .

the younger ones are the same, that might change but I doubt it, because DP and I have told them they are allowed things as part of a balanced diet of decent portion sizes, and if they do extra activity they can have extra food because they've 'earned it or burned it'

Dds school does cake most days but its no fat, no sugar, no fun shite. Maybe they make it according to similar recipes.

There is one thing guaranteed to make cake more desirable and that is somebody telling you you can't have it.

If you want your LO to grow up with a healthy attitude towards cake food you need to stop making such an issue about it. The only thing you will achieve is to make it more desirable.

Like I said Im obviously bu and I don't have an issue with cake itself!

just interested in the opinions now.

It's strange because after care, safety, outside space etc when I've spoken to people about nurseries the thing they always mention is the amount of food/type of food on offer. It's only now I've heard that actually people don't care about food. I guess it's just pfb mums

Cake is dangerous

Again I'm not saying no to cake in general as stated in my other posts!

I think when you're in the first year with a baby (especially your first baby) what you feed them is such as massive part of parenting (from angst about breastfeeding vs formula through to getting weaning right) it does feel like a big deal when you're handing over that responsibility to someone else.

Yes, all other factors being equal I would have loved a healthier menu in my DS's childcare but we ended up prioritising other factors (a warm and loving childminder in a home-from-home setting over a big nursery which offered a great menu but didn't have the homely feel we were looking for).

OP, you've said its twice a week, is it definitely on the days your LO will be attending?

I have to say, I think you're getting a hard time on this thread. I wouldn't want my DS being offered cake twice a week either. As a kid, we had sweet treats once a week, and as an adult we only really have cake on special occasions.

No wonder there are so many fat kids if people think cake twice a week is ok lol

You're happy with the care and location. That should be the deal breaker. Not the fact that they provide cakes. I understand the fear of obesity and diabetes in later life, but. You're really going OTT.

All you have to do is tell them to give her an alternative if you really don't want her having it, or alternative one day cake the next day.
Is this your first. You really need to relax

I wouldn't mind too much if it was homemade cake.

I think most shop bought cake is shite and artificial and that would bother me - for the lack of effort if nothing else.

I wouod prefer a little bit of home made cake over a crappy and artificial yoghurt actually.

We have just moved nursery which I was not keen on for a number of reasons, one being that they served pizza every week (not home made).

I do think we serve the cheapest food we can in the U.K. and it l is not helping our kids

Even entirely plain natural yoghurt has sugar in it. OK, not added sugar but intrinsic sugar from the lactose.

Yeo Valley organic stuff (the green pots) has 6.5g of sugar per 100g
Fage greek yoghurt has 3.8g sugar per 100g

Yes, I do know the difference between the different types of sugar