To think playgroups shouldn't give out junk food?

[neonyellowshoes]

I go to one may be once a fortnight. The standard snack is fruit plus juice (don't agree with the juice) but there is always other shit 'just this once'. Chocolate, cake, iced biscuits today...

This is publicly funded.

It's a nice group but the shit food is putting me off.

Am I being precious?

No. You aren't tbh.

Those who need to bring a bottle can so so. Presumably it's between breakfast and lunch so the kids should cope without eating for the 90 mins it's on?

Just a lazy way to pass the time rather than organising an activity or playing witg5 the kids.

Yes

Stop giving these things at home and thand y can be a treat outside at playgroup

The sitting eating teaches them table manners - so worthwhile when so many kids go to school without them

Yep- would rather they didn't bother with the food. DS wouldn't eat his lunch afterwards - unsurprisingly

The playgroup I go to give water to the little ones to drink, toast to eat followed by some fruit. When the parents have a cuppa after, biscuits are optional.

I don't give him that shit at home either- he also eats at the table at home too. Kids don't eat at the table at this group- more of a free form buffet.

You can say no to the junk...

You people have food issues. It's a fucking biscuit.

I don't think chocolate and cakes are "shit". They're just food, ffs. Yes the snacks should be healthier but one little bit of cake or something, once a fortnight, will do precisely zero harm to your child.

Short of ripping it out of DS's hands, how do I say no?

You people have food issues. It's a fucking biscuit.

And, this! ^

YANBU. I take DS to one where they get the kids to sit down together and they only offer water and fruit. The other group we go to offers squash, Cherrios, croissants and chocolate cake - at 10am!

There's no need to give a baby or toddler these sorts of foods.

Shit food is shit.

It's cheap shit from the corner shop.

Not talking decent, homemade stuff.

Yes, you are.
It's a small amount of perfectly ok food, in a setting you and your child enjoy.

If "playgroup", means the gluttony scene from the film 7even with toddlers and fruit shoots, you might have a point, but it's unlikely.
Unclench.

Rip it out of his hands and say no then.
Believe me, it won't be the last time you do that.
Just don't go to the playgroup then. You sound judgmental and smug.

I'd hate it too and find a different group. Yanbu.

I ran a toddler group for seven years. We offered toast, fruit, biscuits, water, squash, hot drinks for grown ups, companionship, routine, help, advice, trips out, friendship, community.

Get a bit of a grip.

Stop him before he takes the food?

Yanbu. These sorts of groups should be promoting healthy eating. It might just be 1 slice of cake for one kid that fortnight, and for another it might be their third that day.

Corn syrup, palm oil and refined sugar are not perfectly ok. Not arguing about that.

Don't think I'm going back. Will be happily smug and judgemental while DS enjoys a full set of teeth, normal BMI and a lack of childhood onset diabetes.

Feel so much better for a rant.

Get the fuck over yourself.

Easier said than done to rip it out of his hands when the other kids are all eating it, with most toddlers I know that would lead to a huge tantrum.

I think you either need to let it go, I wouldn’t like it either but it’s presumably once a week so pick your battles (and fill him up on healthy food at home before you go), or to find another playgroup.

And good luck trying to police his eating to this extent as he grows up.

yanbu
why should any activity that lasts 2 hours or shorter offer food? mind boggles. water to drink, yes. anything else not neccesary

Lol. You think an occasional biscuit will.make his teeth fall out and give him diabetes? In the nicest possible way you need to get a grip