Shell fish in nursery lunchbox

[Nicpem1982]

Posting for traffic really so apologies

Dd has started to have packed lunch at nursery and the guidance I was given was just send her with what she will eat although we're a healthy eating school.

She's asked for prawn and cherry tomato skewers for tomorrow which is fine for me but is shell fish on the no list like nuts normally?

Sorry new to this lunch thing....

Prawns and tomatoes are fine if definitely kept cold, no skewer please, small children eat together and there is always one child who wants to play swords with everything. Yours is obviously used to skewered being food related, some small boys- children will just see sticks to fight with

I understand the disappointment if she can't have something she has already been told she can have, it's normal for three year olds to not handle disappointment well. If eating it in a special way is important to her you could try using the handle of a teaspoon to skewer them with and call it a spoony kebab

callmeadoctor, if you don't know if your three year old has an extreme allergy response to shellfish, you've failed as a weaner. Kids should have been given some form of shellfish by THREE!

Penelope Keith 😂 I get it! I can only assume the OP is a lot younger than us!

Why should kids have tried shellfish by three? We have severe shellfish allergies in the family and I hate all shellfish so I’ll be honest that i haven’t risked it with mine as we don’t have it in the house. I don’t feel like a failure.

“Amazed at these people who feed their small children caviar given that it retails for around £50 an ounce.“
Probably lumpfish roe- which doesn’t. My dad called it “black fishy stuff” as opposed to “pink fishy stuff” and loved it.

I love that someone is suggesting that she has additional needs because she won't have salmon instead 😂😂 that's hilarious and utterly ridiculous.

Anyway op I would love my DS to enjoy prawns and cherry tomatoes instead of endless cheese sandwiches ....how lovely that she eats so well. Agree with dropping the skewers and sending the food in a pot- other children aren't always sensible with anything stick shaped!

I think it's fantastic that she has adventurous taste and enjoys her food. She knows what she likes and must be a delight to feed.

I would cut the sharp bits off the skewers and send them in, I'd also remind her it's best not to share lunch with friends.

Can't believe all the sarcastic and bitchy comments you are getting, so uncalled for.

"Prawn skewers? Is she Penelope Keith?"

Hilarious! For a nursery aged DC as well. Truly is maximum Mumsnet.

Well obviously you would be judged for sending Nutella - that contains nuts!

...you've failed as a weaner. Kids should have been given some form of shellfish by THREE!

Bloody hell, really?

CaptainBrickbeard

Here shellfish is introduced at 12 months. My kids (3 and 2) love clams, prawns, mussels and calamari.

They love coming down to the Harbour to buy it fresh off the boat. But we have fish/shellfish at least 5 times a week at home.

I'd send in anything I wanted unless I'd been told it wasn't okay, I think.

My 3 year old would be mad with jealousy. She's never had prawns and probably wouldn't like them if she did but food on a stick - win! The number of foods my child refuses to eat on a plate or in a box is er, quite large - but skewer/kebab them and she's all over it. Weird.

So I guess I might worry the other children would try and nick them!

Prawns aren't banned at our school, they have a handy list advising what isn't allowed- nuts and kiwis are on there but no shellfish

They probably don't expect 3 year olds to come in with prawn and cherry tomato skewers.

Petrol--just wow, what a jump

I think Petrol was purposely being facetious. That's how I read it anyway.

I thought shellfish was fine for dcs. I gave mine marinara pizza or pasta marinara made with frozen seafood.

If she's spending her morning looking forward to lunch I'd be questioning the nursery about the quality of the activities they provide.

Is it a private nursery you're paying a lot for? It doesn't sound like there's enough stimulation

Amalfi I’m sure that’s lovely - and the best way to have it, fresh off the boat I imagine. My kids eat what we eat and as DH is allergic to shellfish and I don’t like it, we haven’t given it to them. I don’t regard that as a failure on my part anymore than I regard it as a victory on someone else’s that their children eat shellfish. It’s not a requirement, as colditz appeared to be suggesting.

If we were shellfish fans, worries around storage would prevent me from sending it to nursery as a pack lunch. Food poisoning from prawns is horrendous and I just wouldn’t take the risk.

Stealth boast?

I agree though, I wouldn't fancy eating prawns that have been knocking about in a lunchbox for hours in this weather

When DS2 was at preschool, all lunch boxes were kept in a fridge. The DC put them in themselves in the morning.

My DD will scoff Calamari and clams and baby crabs 'till the cows come home (live in Spain) does not mean I'll be putting them in her lunchbox any time soon!

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Why should kids have tried shellfish by three?

Mine didn't.

I know what you mean Nicpem. DS2 went through his bread hating phase at nursery. Lots of chicken drumsticks and pizza! 😂

You want to know if shellfish (sorry - prawn and cherry tomato skewers) is allowed at the nursery or not.....ask them.

Mine ate all sorts at 3 that they don't eat now as teenagers, shellfish included so I think the op is wise not to be too smug just yet

Perfectly, i know the policy is to refrigerate the lunches but I wouldn’t rely on it happening enough to send in something like prawns where a failure in the system would be catastrophic. I’d send in safe foods for pack lunches. The child can eat prawns at home to her heart’s content but I wouldn’t take the chance in a nursery setting.