Do you expect your nursery to provide a healthy menu with ideally the 5 a day quota in it?

[tiredemma]

or at least one fruit/vegetable????

One - my mindees had 8 today

does these look like a good menus?

1-brekkie- toast cereal

dinner- chicken curry
semolina pudding

tea - crumpet with jam
chocolate roll

2- toast/ceral

macaroni cheese
yoghurt

cheese sandwich
chocolate roll

3- toast/cereal

cheese potato pie
rice pudding

beans on toast
chocolate roll ( can you see a pattern forming here?)

Today I offered my own apple to be blended to be given to one of the babies whose mother had complained about her son having 'blended' chocolate roll.

This is a nursery where I am on placement, it starting to piss me off.

Those are three menus served in consecutive days- so chocolate roll is given every day! - last week they had jam sandwiches for tea and chocolate roll. Im thinking that is too much sugar

That's very unbalanced. My ds nursery does have treats like home made cakes and stuff but they have fruit every day either as snacks or within their meals or both. It should be part of their regs etc - I would have a chat with the manager re your concerns.

at least 5 per day!!! At DS's nursery they offer fruit with every meal and as a snack. They only offer water and no juice
Breakfast would be cereal with toast and fresh fruit
snack is fruit
lunch is home cooked and followed by fruit
snack is fruit and or veg
then tea which is a light snack followed by fruit

those menus sound hideous and not nutritionally balanced

If anyone had fed my baby chocolate roll when he was still young enough for it to need to be blended, I'd have gone fkn apeshit at them.

That's appalling! that is a really bad diet!

chocolate roll every day - sugar rush or what?
Does the nursery publicise these menus? I would not be happy with DS eating that amount of refined sugar - as a treat is fine BTW

wot colditz said!

It is bad isnt it? Its fucking making me depressed having to work there till next week.

and people pay for their kids to be fed this crap?

would deffo speak to the manager, if you feel you can?

tiredemma - can you not say anything?

or could you leave feedback after your placement?

wouldn't OFSTED comment on it?

This is a 3 week menu from about 2 months ago
The format is Lunch, Pudding then tea

Breakfast is cereal(corn flakes/rice krispies/weetabix) & fruit, or toast
Snack is fruit or teacake or crackers & philly/houmous
Plus I serve 2 fresh raw veg at lunchtime (toms/cuc/carrot/mush/sugarsnap/etc)
After tea is Yogurt

M
Sweet'n'Sour Noodles & Scampi, Apple Sponge Sausage, Chips & Beans
T
Baked Potato & Cheese, Yogurt & Puree Spaghetti Bolagnaise
W
Pasta with Ham & Cheese, Peaches & Ice cream Homemade Pizza
Th
Scrambled Egg, Meringue Mess Toad in the Hole
F
Rice & Veggies, Banana & Ice Cream Fishcakes
M
CousCous, Chocolate Pudding Cold Meat & Chips
T
Cheese & Potato Pie, Fruits of the forest Poached Salmon
W
Pizza Toast, Meringue Mess Mince & Mash
Th
Tomato Soup, Apple & Ice cream Pasta with Tuna, Sweetcorn & Peas
F
Risotto, Banana & Custard Scampi
M
Spanish Omlette, Meringue Mess Sausage & Mash
T
Rice & Fried Vegetables, Profiteroles Chicken Nuggets
W
Tuna Sandwiches, Semolina & Jam Cowboy Casserole
Th
Beans on Toast, Yogurt Gingernuts & Bananas Kedgeree
F
Pasta with Ham, Fruit Salad Fish Fingers

I really dont feel I can till next week- I have my final one-to one then and I intend to discuss it then, I will certainly also be feeding all this back to my uni aswell. Im disgusted at some of the things I have seen and have felt nothing but guilt for ever sending my own sons to nursery.

what do the parents think of this menu? presumably you are filling in the daily sheet things to show the parents what they've had..so what do the parents say?

fwiw, dd's nursery is fab, really good menus. on monday she had tuna wraps for tea (she only does afternoons) and apricots to follow. lots of evidence on the floor when she was picked up!

That is terrible! My dd's nursery does;

brekkie - cereal of childs choice or toast
am snack - fruit and biscuits (fruit first so they eat it!)
lunch - one of 15 meals in rotation, all cooked at the nursery by a great cook, all basic nice meals with lots of veg sneaked in where possible (ie pizza with veg in the sauce, shepherds pie etc) and a yoghurt or cooked dessert
pm snack - fruit and biscuits
tea - sandwich, salad veg and yoghurt or chocolate mousse

Have always raved to them about the hugh standard of their meals but they don't understand why everyone else doesn't do it, they say its so easy to arrange and manage!!!

I dont know what the parents say- I know that one complained last week - but what comes of it, I dont know.

I hope the complaint was recorded and logged with OFSTED

my nursery offers the following:-

10am choice of fruit plus milk
12 home cooked meal including veg, rice, pasta plus pudding
3 ish sandwiches / crackers & cheese/ crumpets with cheese or marmite plus more fruit

surprised OFSTED havent commented
we also have a questionaire yearly asking about food & they change accordingly

Today ds 2.5 had

weetabix and bannana

sheppherds pie, carrots cabbage and peas
fruit scone
water

Tuna sandwiches
A selection of fruit
water