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dmo · 16/05/2009 17:31

on the other thread a parent is upset cause a childminder fed her child fresh pasta from M&S and she wants her child to be be fed proper fresh foods

yesterday my 3 had beans on toast, a banana and a yogurt

sometimes i even (please whisper)take them to Mc Donalds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (in the hols)

what do all you lovely cm do?

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aGalChangedHerName · 16/05/2009 17:35

Mine had scrambled egg on toast,fruit salad and milk on Friday.

It's usually something on toast or a sandwich/soup.

My parents are happy with that.

nannynick · 16/05/2009 17:42

I spotted this thread and immediately thought it must have been started following that AIBU thread about M&S Pasta! (the person referred to on that thread is a Nanny, not a Childminder).

At the moment, pasta salad / rice salad is going down quite well. So for example: pasta with cucumber, carrot, cheese pieces. I put baby tomato in but the children pick those out.

Scrambled egg on toast for breakfast or cereal, or cereal and toast, peanut butter on toast, that kind of thing.

frAKKINPannikin · 16/05/2009 18:59

Cereals or jam and bread for breakfast, with fresh fruit and milk

Fish, white or red meat for lunch with pasta, rice or couscous and 2 types of veg, 1 green, for lunch

Roasted veg, pasta bake, fresh filled pasta with pesto and veg, veg lasagne - some kind of veg based meal and usually some form of carbs (potatoes permitted at this meal!)

Yes, I have a slightly controlling boss but am pretty sure I'm not the nanny in question on the other thread! FWIW I agree with her basic philosophy on food though and when he has a friend round he usually gets some form of store bought chicken kiev/burgers/chicken nuggets (ick).

FromGirders · 16/05/2009 19:04

My food policy:

Meals and Snacks
I provide a healthy diet of mainly home-made food, which is, as far as possible, sourced locally. I can provide all meals for your child if you wish. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following. Some lunch or dinner dishes are batch made and then frozen in order to provide convenient meals without resorting to convenience food.
Breakfast: Weetabix, shredded wheat, cornflakes, porridge or readybrek in the winter. All with banana, sultanas or soft fruit in season.
Snacks: Fresh or dried fruit, rice cakes, breadsticks, crackers, cheese, raw vegetable sticks, plain biscuits or home baking such as pancakes, scones, fairy cakes. Please note that snacks provided at Toddlers or playgroup may include juice or chocolate biscuits in addition to the above. If you specify that you only wish your child to have water or milk, I will do my very best to make sure that is what he has, but occasionally he might get hold of someone else?s cup!
Lunch: Often soup, sandwiches or pitta breads, but also smaller portions of shepherds? pie, pasta, rice dishes. Fresh fruit or yoghurt.
Tea: Largely ?meat and two veg? type dishes, casserole, pasta, macaroni or cauliflower cheese, chicken dishes. Puddings include yoghurt, fruit, steamed puddings, rice pudding, home-made ice lollies or ice-cream.
Drinks: Milk or water only for under-twos, or diluted fresh fruit juice for older children.
If you prefer to provide packed lunches and snack for your child, that is fine, but please adhere to the following.
No sweets, chocolate or chocolate biscuits.
No crisps.
No fizzy drinks or juices other than fresh fruit juice.

Birthdays and other parties warrant exceptions to these rules!

FromGirders · 16/05/2009 19:05

Yes, that last bit is in my policy - to save me from people like the OP in the other trhead!

underpaidandoverworked · 16/05/2009 19:57

errm - [whispers] what was the other thread . Seem to have missed that one...........

looneytune · 16/05/2009 20:45

I missed it too!

HSMM · 16/05/2009 21:45

mostly fruit at snack time. biscuits for those who have parental permission (because all the other chilfren at toddlers have them). some kind of protein/carbs/veg/dairy/fruit at lunch. water or milk to drink (except for parents who allow squash at toddlers).

atworknotworking · 16/05/2009 22:19

oohh underpaid and looney tune havn't laughed soooo much in ages it's a long one but well worth a mooch (if you have time whilst harvesting freshly grown crops)

looneytune · 16/05/2009 22:26

link please

nannynick · 16/05/2009 22:43

The other thread

TheOtherMaryPoppinsDiets · 16/05/2009 22:51

Yesterday my mindee had a cheese and cucumber sandwich on wholemeal and a cupcake for lunch - she is allowed to choose what sandwich filling she wants each day (within reason!) and Friday is cake day

Other days lunches:
made our own pitta pizzas with tuna tomatoes and mozarella
breadsticks and dip, fruit salad
ham rolls, yogurt and crisps

Shoshe · 16/05/2009 23:00

Mine (and half the other CM's mindees that I work along side, it was lunch at mine yesterday )had Roast Chicken, mash, carrots trees, asparagus and green beans with gravy, then yogurt.

Day before was Shepherds pie veg and yogurt (if anyone cane tell me any other pud that 3 under 5 months will eat please let me know, cos mine will only eat yogurt)

FishPie this week as well.

Snacks are fruit and a biscuit., as a general rule, although Friday is junk food Friday and afternoon snack is usually cake, cheesy biscuits, or popcorn.

VeryCheekyMonkey · 16/05/2009 23:27

I agree shoshe - friday is friday! although i tend to go for healthy eating most of the time as long they have eaten well all week i let my mindee's decide what they want( the ones that can talk ) or i make sure they get there favourite- every one deserves a treat at the end of the week !- as i meantioned on the 'other thread' we had mcdonalds yesterday - Not coke!
For lunch we generally have what i call a picnic plate - variety of carrots, cucumber, celery, cherry toms, cheese chunks, ham, grapes, strwberries, raisins,rasberries, blueberries, yogart , chopped apple, banana you get the idea ! i choose small amounts of about 6 different varieties with wholemeal seeded batch bread - buttered or tortilla/pitta on the side, its up to them how they eat it they love it because there is a variety and not to much of one thing, they munch through it as we chat or put together sandwiches my 3y 1m mindee made a yogart and ham sandwich the other day and devoured it ! another dips her grapes in mayo - who are we to tell them its not right ? they will soon realise as they get older and it makes them gag !!

VeryCheekyMonkey · 16/05/2009 23:35

apple and mango fruit puree and other fruits ummm love em ! ;)

HSMM · 17/05/2009 10:23

Realised mine sounded a bit ideal! With prior agreement from parents, we have been to MacDonalds and the children have had ice creams when we have been out on day trips. Generally I find their behaviour and attention is better with 'proper' food. My own DD of course eats a complete pile of rubbish! (Double standards or what!)

HSMM · 17/05/2009 10:40

Having finally read (some of) the M&S post, I do think that if there is a specific arrangement with a parent over food, it should be stuck to. If we can't look after their children the way they want us to, then we need to tell them.

looneytune · 17/05/2009 11:00

Well I read the WHOLE thread (558 posts!) last night (dh watching a pile of poo I didn't want to watch!) and I agree that a nanny should follow a parents instructions HOWEVER I'm afraid that in this case, I think it's very possible that the nanny THOUGHT what she did was ok. The OP didn't come back and say she had made it perfectly clear what she meant by fresh food. Anyway, it was the funniest thread I'd read in a very very long time!!

RedEmma · 17/05/2009 12:28

Yes, if I wasad the nanny I'd have thought fresh filled pasta from M&S with a homemade sauce would have been fine too!

Littlepurpleprincess · 17/05/2009 13:19

I ask parents to provide a packed lunch. I offer snacks (usually fruit mid am/pm) but my mindee atm doesn't eat them so I stopped wasting my money.

If they stayed for dinner it would be home made, healthy stuff, chips once a week.

Mindee's mum says no sweet snacks/ treats/ crisps, anything like that which I feel is excessive but what can ya do?

He had a fruit shoot the other day as a treat and it went right to his head because he's not used to it, poor thing.

He's not even allowed FRUIT JUICE! The result being, he doesn't drink anything, ever.

I'm a bit of a health nut myself. DS has always had good, home cooked food, but kids should be kids, my generation was raised on E numbers!

RachieB · 17/05/2009 19:22

what's wrong with fresh filled pasta ?

will read the other thread when i am bored / have more time ! lol

KatyMac · 17/05/2009 19:31

Lunch/pudding/dinner

9 day rota....but I recently stopped doing Friday Night tea - the children go home & DH & I have a take away

Cheese & Potato Pie with beans Ice cream, gingernuts & banana Rice, fish with peas & sweetcorn
Scampi, cucumber/carrot/tomato Fruit and Custard Pasta with cheese, ham, broccoli & sweetcorn
Beans on toast, cucumber/carrot/tomato Rice Pudding & peaches Fish Pie with leeks & broccoli
Pasta with cheese & tomato salsa Fruit charlotte Toad in the Hole, with carrots & broccoli
Chicken Nuggets, cucumber/carrot/tomato Trifle Cold meat, chips & beans
Pizza Toast, cucumber/carrot/tomato Profiteroles Poached salmon with carrots & green beans
Fish Fingers, broccoli & cauliflower Fruit Flan Cowboy casserole
Rice, prawns, peas, sweetcorn & raisins Fruit and ice cream Baked potato & cheese, cucumber/carrot/tomato
Scrambled Eggs & Toast Chocolate pudding Mince, mash, with carrots & peas

Not all on one plate btw

HSMM · 17/05/2009 21:02

I like the sound of the tomato rice pudding KM

dmo · 17/05/2009 21:13

why does the other thread say childminder if she meant nanny????

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TheOtherMaryPoppinsDiets · 17/05/2009 21:49

probably figured it was ok to slag off a CM cause we all know CM are lowest of the low

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