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Nursery packed lunch policy giving my son grief

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ScummyMummy · 19/09/2002 19:02

Can anyone give me any thoughts on this? My sons started a full day at nursery at the beginning of this month and take in a packed lunch. The nursery has a policy that the children must eat their savoury food before they can go on to any sweeter stuff included. I don't have a problem with this per se but they seem to be taking it a bit far with one of my sons. He came back today with an almost full lunch box having been denied access to his yogert, banana, cheese, bread sticks and dried fruit because he wouldn't eat his chicken drumstick. This is not the first time this has happened. It's not like I'm including particularly unhealthy stuff and I'm really not very happy with the idea that he hasn't had anything approaching a proper meal all day. Has anyone else come across this sort of a policy? To be fair to the nursery, who are generally absolutely fantastic, I'm sure my son isn't particularly easy at lunchtime. He can be a bit fussy and faddy and very stubborn if he is told to eat something that he has decided is horrid. I want to query this with the nursery but am not sure whether I'm overreacting or how to approach it given that they obviously can't change their whole policy just for my son. Any advice welcome!

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bundle · 14/10/2002 14:40

oh you've just reminded me of the chicken balls (a la Annabel Karmel) which i used to make for dd - grated apple included to make them nice & moist. a bit more fiddly than strips of chicken or nuggets but easy if you have a blender. and i agree the cornflake crunchiness is a winner

Clarinet60 · 14/10/2002 17:37

Thanks deegward. He seems to be able to cry indefinately.

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