Is this food suitable?

[butterybean]

Baby, 10 months old in childminders from 9.30am to 2.45pm ate sausage, mash and beans.

No fruit, no veg no other snacks. I'd have thought that this meal would be too high in salt, fat and sugar and not enough nutrients (I didn't think you could give sausages to babies?)

Would you be concerned? He's a great eater and will eat anything put in front of him and is very much on solid food, just cut up into chunks.

I often give my little ones mash potatoes. it has no salt in it. not sure why you would think mash is high in salt. or beans for that matter depending on type. and sausages, the veggie ones often have more shite in them than a decent meat one.

Once a week with low salt beans and good quality sausages that’s not a bad meal ..
You could try and get more fruit in at breakfast and send a snack for if he doesn’t drink his morning bottle.

I’d value the fact your child is clearly happy and settled there enough to eat (some children refuse at childcare) and the fact your childminder is clearly honest !

If I'd have chosen the childminder based on home cooked meals etc as you mentioned in a reply, then NO, I would not be happy with sausage beans & mash & would want to know exactly what was in it & what other meals she was planning to serve. Tinned beans, probably frozen mash & gawd knows what in a sausage would not be my idea of a home cooked meal

I'm withdrawing him because he wasn't offered a piece of fresh fruit or a fresh vegetable during the whole day. Mash is cool but does have a little salt in if made with butter, but it isn't a vegetable and most of the goodness in the potato is in the skin which is usually taken off in mash.

If I'm hard work so be it.... I think infant nutrition is important. He is in nursery 2 other days where he isn't given any salt and plenty of serves of fruit and veg so I'll just try to extend his time there.

why "probably frozen mash" why not "probably home made"?

Fgs speak to them first

I use unsalted butter and i guess I'm not the only one who does. I really think you need to unclench as I can guarantee nurseries serve far more processed crap than CM's do

If I'm hard work so be it.... I think infant nutrition is important. He is in nursery 2 other days where he isn't given any salt and plenty of serves of fruit and veg so I'll just try to extend his time there.

You are not hardwork at all, seems to me that you are just educated enough about nutrition to not see this as acceptable. I'm with you 100%, sod what others think, but I would not be happy with anyone giving processed food to mine when she was that young👍🏼

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Mash is perfectly healthy and so are beans. We get our sausages from a local butcher who makes his own and they too are perfectly healthy.

did she actually say she offered no fruit or veg ( apart from the mash and beans which are both veg

Baked beans 'count as vegetables' Government health advisors say tinned products can now count towards your recommended daily intake of five portions fruit and vegetables

Probably frozen mash?! Why do you say that? I have never eaten, or been offered, frozen mash.

why "probably frozen mash" why not "probably home made"?

Because if they are lazy enough to serve tinned beans & sausage, they are unlikely to be putting in any big effort with the mash. I'm not knocking that, just not for such a young DC

seems to me that you are just educated enough about nutrition to not see this as acceptable
you see I think that someone who doesn't know that potatoes and beans are vegetables is pretty darned uneducated about nutrition. it's one of the basics really: what is a vegetable, meat, fruit etc.

my children occasionally have sausage, mash and beans. Always home made mash.

They could have cooked a batch and frozen portions which would be just as good as freshly made

Because if they are lazy enough to serve tinned beans & sausage

hahahahahahahahah

why is it lazy to cook sausages. Oh, i know, they were "probably" ready cooked ones you just microwave.
why is it lazier than boiling up some pasta?
why is it lazier than making an omelette which takes even less time?

Do you pay for food at the childminders? Most of the childminders in my area offer no more than snacks due to it being extremely difficult to cater for multiple parent food requests. In my experience most under ones have food provided by the parents. How do you know no fruit or veg was offered? Did the childminder say so?

In any event, you really need to resolve this with your childminder. If you don't speak to her how can she manage your expectations?

Christ you sound like a nightmare. I feel sorry for the childminder.

One thing I love about my child minder is she serves my children different food to the god I give at home so my child experiences a range of tastes and styles of home cooking- which I think is important.
One meal a week which is different to food you would have chosen is not going to hurt your child.

She writes in a book what he has had for food and drinks. No detail given on the quality of the sausage (but I really wouldn't class a sausage as baby food - it's processed and too high in fat and salt) or the type of beans (yes classed as a vegetable but there are better vegetables for a baby that are fresh and don't contain salt or sugar).... broccoli or peas for example.

Yes I pay for food to be provided. Thanks for the opinions - seems to be pretty split but I'm going with my gut on this one.

Guess what my mindees had tonight?
Pizza. Yep, pizza with cheese and tomato on and a choice of toppings.
the dough was started at midday when I "lazily" put the ingredients in the mixer and let the dough hook do the work.
Thye tomato base was taken out the freezer ( where I'd "lazily put it a few weeks ago after batch cooking about 20 portions).
the kids then chose sweetcorn/ ham( nasty yeuchy ham, they've probably all dropped dead by now).
You know what, when the parents arrived and asked if they'd eaten, i said yep, we had pizza.
as my parents trust me, they would have assumed the pizza was either good quality, or home made: you would have assumed it was an iceland value pizza

why would she give detail on the quality of sausage? christ, what do you expect? a full nutritional breakdown of %meat, rusk etc.?
and what, you want her to write down what brand and variety of baked beans she had?
She's well rid of you.

Are they 10 months old? I have made no assumptions, I just don't know the quality. It's a new childminder hence why I'm looking for opinions. Homemade pizza sounds amazing for children.... especially if they get to build it themselves. My baby would struggle with it due to lack of teeth!

you see, you've just said you don't know the quality, yet you're assuming it's crap and going to disrupt your baby by leaving the CM. i think you should have a rethink. you are never going to get a childcarer that you agree with 1005 on everything but if you assume the worst with no evidence then you are really going to struggle over the next few years.

the joy of the home made pizza is that I'm about to have one myself with seafood on and a glass of wine!