Shocked by the Nursery picnic!

[sharond101]

My DS doesn't yet go to nursery so I don't know how meals work when they go but today we were in the Country Park beside our house and there was a local nursery there on an outing. The leaders had brought a picnic with them and brought out some blankets and the children all raced over for a snack. This was at 3.45pm so I was surprised to see each child being given a filled roll to eat. A while later came the crisps which were passed out and then chocolate biscuits (chunky kit kats)and then some jelly sweets. The children looked as young as 2 years old say up to 5 years old. I would be unhappy to think my DS had been given crisps, chocolate biscuits and jelly sweets all at once. Is this normal nursery practice?? It really isn't anything to do with me, it just shocked me is all.

Kit kat chunky? For two year olds? Are you sure?
I struggle to eat them as they're hard to bite in to and a but Erm chunky. Can't imagine a two year old managing to eat one

had a long answer in my head by usual summed it up perfectly.

This sounds like a slightly (or very) exaggerated version of the truth.

What Fatima said. DD is 4 and couldn't bite into a KitKat Chunky, they're too...chunky.

I imagine it was a treat.
At DD's nursery, hot lunch is at 12 and tea at 3.45 - usually a roll, crumpets, muffins, beans on toast etc, with yoghurt or bit of cake after. I'm happy with that.
In 4 years of going there, I've never seen them have chocolate bars and they only had crisps at the Christmas party.

"What Fatima said. DD is 4 and couldn't bite into a KitKat Chunky, they're too...chunky."

Bet you a tenner he could. Go on, get him one and video it.

Sandwiches, crisps and kik kats are fine for a special tea time picnic.

I don't think they should've had jelly sweets too much sugar.

Ok Laurie, I'll amend that to "There's no need for children to know jelly sweets even exist"

Good grief is there no joy left in the world?

Everyday, no, picnic treat, who cares?

If you genuinely find that shocking you've lived a sheltered life. Other things are shocking this not so much.

Sunnydaysablazeinhope
Do you seriously think that it is ok to state your opinion like that? This isn't aibu. Rein it in a bit why don't you?

Annual nursery picnic? fine. Absolutely fine.

Day to day no but most nurseries have fairly strict nutritional policies.

I am firmly of the belief that if you deny a child then they go on to use that as a way of rebelling- whether it's autonomy and freedom, sweets, whatever. And a pudding or a bag of sweets every now and again will not harm anyone.

And yes really, if you find this shocking be aware you have a really rocky road ahead. heck our school (posh, Church) just got a 2 rating on food hygiene, let alone all the many realities of having older kids then teens!

I don't believe that any nursery would be mad enough to hand out chunky kitkats to small children, unless they were deliberately trying to go home with all the children coated in chocolate from head to toe. Hot little hands clutching full-size chocolate bars while they slowly gnaw through the chunks.

But why not a two finger kit kat and no sweets? Its the sheer amount of rubbish that bothers me (and I think op). No, children's picnics do not all need to be hummus and carrots - although most children really enjoy those, so why not? - and yes, kids will develop and unhealthy obsession with forbidden foods if some are banned.

Its all a matter of balance of healthy/unhealthy and there was just no need for this excess of junk. It is not a treat to overload children with sugar.

You need to find a nursery that feeds children houmous, carrots sticks and organic wild rice (fertilised with unicorn manure), with gooseberries for afters, when the kids go on a picnic at teatime, sharon.

Yes it's very shocking. It's actually child abuse. You too are a child abuser for not flying in and snatching all the horrible poison and making a bonfire of it.

In the Country Park Beside Your House of all places, too? Absolutely shocking!

Sunnydays, how about you fuck off? The op never actually said that she thought the nursery gave that stuff out all of the time. I wouldn't like the idea of kids gettings all of that stuff at the same time either, even for outings.

Ah fuckit, people can't post intelligently, how childish.

My nursery has never given my DC a chunky kitkat. The cost would be one thing, very expensive for each child. Sometimes a parent brings in some evil processed devil foods if its a childs birthday but thats nothing more than a small cake or a mini chocolate bar or maybe a mini bag of haribo.

These kids are living the high life, getting chunkies in a country park.

I wouldn't be happy with that. Way too mug crap in such a small time. Surely just one thing ' crap' would have been enough each.

Filled wholemeal roll, a banana and one other ie crisps would have been plenty.

The idea of 30 odd 2 year olds making a mess with a kit Kat chunky would be my idea of hell! In the sun it will just be everywhere

It sounds like to me they were having a picnic tea in the park. The food given sounds fine to me. It was obviously a special trip out - I'm sure the nursery doesn't give that sort of food routinely. The kids obviously loved it, and as a one- off, a bit of sugar doesn't do any harm. The parents were probably informed prior to the event what was being provided, and probably had the opportunity to object of they didn't want their child to eat the food.

Isn't it likely a parent gave some chunky kit kats / sweets etc? I know donations was how our nursery always ran these things. A state nursery attached to a local school so neither a provider of foods nor charging usually, but nobody spotting them in a park would know that.

Ok

Odfod.

Makes it so much better in initials doesn't it?

Or was it the prim pretentious prattery?

Thanks for the extra attention. By all means report/delete. It's been said now. Twice!

:)

Im going on a picnic tomorrow

I will be sure to pack rolls, kit kat chunkys, sweets and crisps.

If the small people cant manage them I will have to eat them myself