To think the nursery are being ridiculous

[TinasCrockeryPot]

ever since dd started nursery during lockd8wn the nursery would heat up food that yih out into her pack lunch box such as homemade soup pasta etc. However, now that they have reintroduced their hot lunches for 4 pound a day, they are no longer reheating homemade food and will only reheat food that have heating instructions such as tinned soup and microwave meals. AIBU to think this is ridiculous as homemade food is much more healthier than tinned soup of microwave meals?

I’ve never worked in a nursery that would reheat food from home. I imagine the reason they did it previously was because they had low numbers due to covid and they wanted to try and make amends for their kitchen being closed during an unprecedented time.

Other than the hygeine risks, most rooms I’ve worked in are very busy. If even half the children brought food to be reheated in a microwave trying to organise dinner time would be really difficult.

Also, if you still want to send packed lunches there are plenty of options that don’t need to be reheated. Cold pasta salad, sandwiches, wraps etc

Think ill be getting this post removed

I’m assuming that’s not just lunch op they get snacks. Or the meal they give is properly cooked by someone, so someone has to do the shopping, unpack, they need storage, then someone doing the preparation, the cooking, the cleaning up after etc?

And it’s not like they are forcing people to buy it, they are also letting kids have their own meals brought in, either cold packed lunches or they will cook properly packed stuff with manufacturers instructions.

Heating food when they can’t provide a warm alternative snd fewer kids in is reasonable, in fact it all does, overall seems a decent place on this front.

@TinasCrockeryPot

Think ill be getting this post removed

Why? Because posters disagreed with you?

@Bluntness100, no because I feel like I'm being told you can't be a parent and a student

I’ve never heard of a nursery letting you take your own food in. When my daughter was at nursery many moons ago, the nursery made fabulous home cooked, nutritious food that we paid for within the frankly extortionate fees. It was worth every penny though, she loved it there.

It's one of those things that sets your teeth on edge because if it was safe and OK a few months ago, it's safe and OK now, and it it's not safe and OK now, neither was it then! I don't think they are BU- they probably were breaking stretching the rules they have to go by wrt heating food when they were doing it before, but it is annoying when things like this happen so I do get the irritation!

Maybe try and reframe it in your head: they went out of their way to help people out at peak lockdown when they couldn't provide hot food, which was a real bonus to you at the time.

[quote TinasCrockeryPot]@Bluntness100, no because I feel like I'm being told you can't be a parent and a student[/quote]
Nobody has said that. I know I for one did both! What people are saying is the nursery aren’t being unreasonable.

Certainly not something worth having a post deleted for

@FunDragon Yeah we thought it would have been actually safer for us to cook the food like normal and serve to each child in their own bowl rather than have heaps of packed lunches sent in! But a lot of things the government decided were the rules didn’t have a lot of logic behind it! 😂

PP mentioned a thermos and I second this. Most nurseries or schools won't heat up food.

Nobody said you can’t be a parent and a student. You asked if nursery were unreasonable not to heat meals from home and most people have said no, this isn’t unreasonable. Whether or not your a student isn’t relevant, I would have said the same if you worked full time.

• you’re a student, I meant.

Plus I clearly have my answer that the nursery aren't being unreasonable so what's the point on keeping a thread open that I have my answer to?

I think it sound like a great nursery. They tried the best for children while under restriction. Heating up children's individual food takes so much time let alone the risks, yet they've done it for your children. Now they can serve warm food, it's parent's choice to send cold lunch, lunch in the thermos, or eat the lunch provided.

@TinasCrockeryPot

Plus I clearly have my answer that the nursery aren't being unreasonable so what's the point on keeping a thread open that I have my answer to?

If the thread is annoying you, hide it and leave everyone else to continue to discuss, argue, whatever.

Am I the only one shocked that it's only £4 a day for the child's food at nursery? My child's food at nursery is £12 a day and they cannot give them anything from home including if I was to send them in with a bottle of milk. Everything they consume in the nursery has to be made there, so they have to make their bottles there and everything. They have a chef that cooks meals everyday. I've never heard of a nursery heating food from home

@unmarkedbythat I dont kjow how to do that

Are there any thermos bowls that you can put pasta in and can anyone recommend a good one?

Yes you can put pasta in them. Tesco supermarkets often have their Thermos branded bowls reduced to a fiver round here. Bargain.

@TinasCrockeryPot at the very top of the thread on desktop there is
"Start new thread in this topic | Watch this thread | Flip this thread | Hide this thread | Refresh the display"- just click on 'hide this thread'. If you're on mobile, open the thread and then click on the little down arrow top right for the list of options and choose 'hide this thread'.

It is a feature I use A LOT when I am getting too fed up with people and need to leave a thread behind!

Most nurseries only serve their own food and incorporate this into feed. Separately heating up meals for each child is insane!