Nursery feeding 3yo chocolate chip weetabix every morning - AIBU

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Not the first time I've had food issues with the nursery... they're great and a lovely bunch of ladies, barely any staff turnover.. Dd age 3 has had the same key worker since she was 8mo
However they feed the kids utter shit some days. I've raised it and been told that it's a "treat" however they have these treats every day (chocolate biscuits, icecream, cake etc) and now the chocolate chip weetabix being out on the table every day is starting to take the pee a little.
She goes 4 full days so cant exactly avoid it...
Aibu to complain (again) or do I just suck it up and accept it

I'd take in two weetabix in a plastic bag and empty them in your child's bowl when you get there. Say they're her magic ones. Say under no circumstances treat food without consultation. Treat days to be agreed in advance. That's reasonable.
Doesn't the school have an agreed eating policy? Is it a healthy eating school? What does it say in your paperwork?
I'd be really unhappy about it.

She’s 3, she’s not daft enough to believe the magic weetabix crap 🤣

It only gets worse when they go to school, get used to not having much control over a portion of their eating. You set a good example, you do what you can. You can’t control it all.

I do find it surprising that they are giving squash, surprised inspectorate allows that?

Even if there is a choice of 3 or 4 cereals, just tell them your DD isn't allowed the chocolate one?

It just seems like a drop in the ocean compared to the rest of the week really. 4 meals out of 21 she's having about 20 TINY chocolate chips. I wouldn't raise a fuss about it, especially given that she enjoys going there and is presumably nearing the end of her time there anyway given that it's May.

FWIW I've eaten sugary cereal or chocolate spread on toast for breakfast almost every day for 27 years. I give my 2yo Weetos, Cheerios or jam on toast for breakfast at least 3 times a week, with Weetabix on the other 4 occasions. I can't get too worked up about food. It just seems to push kids in the other direction anyway.

Good grief 😂😂 you know this is chocolate chip weetabix we're talking about here not cocaine?

Honestly wouldn't bother me.

Would definitely bother me. I guess that’s why there are different styles of nursery and you can pick the ones that suit you. That said I’m not sure chocolate wheatabix would adhere to the government guidance on healthy eating for nurseries in Scotland. Ours get wheetabix, cornflakes, rice crispies or toast and they don’t ‘cry and refuse their jamless toast’ as a pp suggested as they’ve never known any different and I imagine most parents continue this at home.

I would be very unhappy with this and would complain again.

I wouldn't be happy. I'd speak to other parents and see if you can rally people to mention it too.

They were serving all the kids in the baby room squash and I requested mine had just water.

Oh my god, are you serious? That's awful! With this and the blatant disregard for healthy breakfasts (and I assume all other meal times?) I'd definitely be either complaining or leaving.

Looking at your follow up posts, the food seems completely age inappropriate. Squash in the baby room for under ones?!? Our nursery serves nothing but water or milk. I would not be happy with either frosted shreddies or chocolate weetabix. Ours get the choice of Rice Krispies, cornflakes or weetabix. Then toast and butter. There are treats occasionally (cakes, biscuits, chocolate if it's a birthday but not every day. If ice cream was a regular pudding I'd be disappointed. Ours have yoghurt, fruit, custard, rice pudding, crumble etc. They're really careful about how much sugar goes into everything.

My kids have chocolate weetabix every morning. They are fine. Healthy, happy and alive 👍🏼
Statements like this....
I am sorry but that is not a healthy breakfast. Fine if that is your choice but it is not healthy.
My aunt smokes a box a day and she is also healthy, happy and alive.

I think it is our responsibility to make healthy choices for out children and sentences like this is why we are a society of adults with all sorts of medical and lifestyle issues.

A treat has become a daily thing or weekly.

There are zero nutritional building blocks in those breakfast, for little people that are building bones, muscles, nervous system.

Please let's stop normalising bad habits.

{my aunt thinks she is happy, healthy and she is still alive}

The rest of it sounds awful but when I recently checked the sugar content of a lot of cereals chocolate chip weetabix was actually not bad. Comparable to Shreddies.

A few chocolate chips aren’t bad habits your children will be more damaged by your fucked Up attitude to food than by some chocolate chips

I wouldn't be happy. Pay a lot of money for child care. Healthy meals should be standard. I'd speak to the nursery and want long term meal plans in place. Sugary cereal is an absolute no. If you start your kids on crap no wonder they won't eat porridge.

Doesn’t sound like they are promoting healthy eating choices. I wouldn’t be happy.

OP are you in the UK? I’m finding it hard to believe any nursery would be giving squash in the baby room, burger and chips, cake and ice cream every day. OFSTED look at food served as well as everything else and no nursery would get such a menu past them. Everything is balanced diet etc, cake is no sugar, with fruit etc.

Did someone just compare choc weetabix with smoking

People on here are nuts sometimes!

I get the impression that your dd is happy at the nursery, and you seem happy about her having the same keyworker for several years, and you feel happy leaving her safe in the knowledge that she is happy there.

If you are giving her 6 portions of fruit a day at home she is having a considerable amount of sugar from that.

I really couldn't get worked up about it, what will you do when she goes to school and has cake and custard everyday

Yes me too yabadabadontdoit. Squash is an absolute no. Nurseries have to follow healthy eating and provide a demonstrably balanced diet (and this can easily be met including chocolate chip cereal!)

So, if this has only been happening for the last week or so, what we're they offering before?

Two prespectives here I am a Mum and work in a private nursery.

As a nursery we serve Shreddies/rice crispies or toast/teacakes/crumpets. Fruit. Milk/water. Only butter as a topping.

At home my son has cereal and toast for breakfast. Usually weetabix or cheerios but we do have coco pops. If he does choose coco pops then I make sure the toast topping is savoury such as cheese or cheese spread or ham etc. If he chooses a non sugary cereal he can have jam on his toast. That said there is also days he will have eggs in varying forms or porridge once in a while.

I think if you are otherwise happy with the nursery I would pick your battles. If the media are to be believed there are hundreds of kids going to school with nothing in their tummies so with that in mind I think the chocolate chip weetabix is a non issue really.

It does surprise me when people complain about a few tiny pieces of chocolate every day, then brag about their dc eating fruit till it come out of their ears

@Hmmmminteresting my dd went to our "healthy meals" stays school breakfast club when she was 4 and was offered chocolate cereal, I complained to the deputy head and was told I was the only mum to complain and they continue to serve crap cereals.

My mum ran a breakfast / after school club for 18 years and and the children were NEVER allowed chocolate cereal.

At a nursery it's pretty poor, I'm pretty laid back but at 3 I would be expecting better cereal choices.