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Extortionate food and sundries costs

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Win100 · 24/09/2025 13:09

I’ve just had my October bill as my little one started nursery in September. I’ve just found out they charge £30 a DAY for meals and nappies. They use Aldi nappies….. is £30 a day a lot?? That’s £90 a week for his meals and I feel like thats what we spend on a food shop a week for our family of 3? He has 4 nappy changes a day so that’s like 20p in Aldi nappies. I refuse to believe he eats £30 worth of food a day as i certainly don’t?! Anyone have any thoughts on this 🥲🥲

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Naananananaa · 26/09/2025 21:11

Other posters are being harsh, it is a high charge. We pay £6 per day for consumables but we do provide our own nappies, that doesn’t cost £30 per week though! If places are as hard to come by as they are here you can’t just pull your DC out either as since funding increased all places are full. I don’t really have advice but agree it’s very high.

RaspberryFeet · 26/09/2025 23:01

FanofLeaves · 25/09/2025 13:42

our nursery charges extra for ‘extra curricular’ activities weekly - a Spanish lesson and a cookery class. In reality I know that one of the nursery workers is from Columbia and does a little session in Spanish teaching vocab and songs, and the other is the on-site nursery cook letting the older ones help her prep veggies and mix things in bowls etc as part of an activity or they make their own sandwiches for tea on a Friday. Both are great and I appreciate having them but they don’t cost the nursery any extra on top of staff wages. It’s just an example of where they can show their extra charge is going when in reality it’ll be simply helping to subsidise running costs.

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Surely the cook is not also cooking the meals at the same time though? So she has to be paid for the extra time she is there for a cooking class.

Maybe the Colombian worker can’t be counted in the ratio if she’s working with a small group so there are extra wages wither fir her or for the person covering her.

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