chip butties at nursery

[KemalsStilletto]

I have a friend who has a 3 yr old and 1 yr old at a private day nursery. Last week when she asked the children what they had for lunch they told her chip butties from the chippy. She questioned the nursery manager the next day and it turns out the oven broke down while cooking lunch that day so she and the cook went to the chippy and got chips for the kids and buttered some bread. Friend was a bit shocked at this and so was I really, esp as friend only allows them homecooked meals at home and no greasy food, but what else could they have done without an oven?

[Hattie05]

Oh its just a bit of fun. D'you think the nursery thought what shall we do, lets buy the unhealthiest food possible because our oven has broken?

No they thought, ok oven broken - for all you know this could have happened leaving only ten minutes before lunch needing to be served - lets make it fun for the children and all have chip butties. I hope that they would have recruited some of the older children to go to the chip shop and experience the ordering and paying for the food also. Meanwhile the other children back at nursery would all be furiously buttering their brown bread awaiting the arrival of their chips.

There certainly are far more important things to think about!!

When i did manage a nursery and our air conditioning broke down on the hottest day ever we bought ice lollies for all the staff and children. Not because we wanted to rot all the children's teeth, but because we wanted to create a bit of fun for everyone on the hot and stressful day. And it was great fun, esp hosing all the sticky bodies down once the lollies were finished!

[bubble99]

No problem as a one-off. We always have bread, cheese, yoghurts etc in the fridge at our nurseries but I'm sure the littlies would have loved the chip-butties.

If the nursery in question was serving good food, fresh veg etc daily then I'm sure most parents wouldn't have minded. If, however, they had a Turkey Twizzlers culture then the chip-butties would have been evidence of yet more nutritional crapness.

[MrsGordonRamsay]

Fair point


I shall retire.

Niger is just upsetting me.

[WigWamBam]

Crisis in Niger aside ... The choices we make for our children are made with the best intentions, and if someone is raising their child as a vegetarian, no-one else has the right to criticise them for not wanting their child given meat or meat products at nursery. Imagine the uproar if a Muslim child were given pork ... for some vegetarians, it's a similar thing. But you could say the same thing - the parents are Muslim and are passing it onto the child.

[MrsGordonRamsay]

JimJams


I know............but just feel that we should not even be having this discussion.


Someone, and I truly do not know whom, said, my children are VG.

NO YOU ARE VEGGIE and have passed this on to your children.

They were worried about the oil the chips may have been fried in.

FFS as I said, There are people starving in Niger

[Jimjams]

But its not growing with people saying they shouldn't have given chips. Most people are saying they wouldn't see it as a problem.

[PeachyClair]

MrsGR, you'r right but a while ago I was crying watching a child die in Africa on TV (Sudan), it really haunted me and I kept thinking what could I do? The only answer I could come up with was that the mother of that poor child would probably want me to do absolutelyn everything I can to make my kids lives as perfect and healthy as I posibly can.

Mind you, one meal of chips? Like I said earlier, not a problem! I ate nothing but egg and chips for weeks as a kid when we had no money.

[MrsGordonRamsay]

I need to say this , it only occured to me when the thread began to grow.............


There are people starving in Niger


Bet they are not vegetarian or even bothered about where their next meal is coming from.


We ought to be ashamed of ourselves

[Jimjams]

I'm so upset about meat. Ds1 stopped eating meat before he was 2 when the evil nursery (we took him out!) wouldn't let him have pudding because he;d eaten chicken nuggets with his fingers (obviously he had no idea what they were telling him- he still wouldn't so he just stopped eating all meat and fish overnight grrrrr). Anyway over 4 years later his class teacher got him eating meat again. And we were slowly expanding his diet. He's been having gluten free fish fingers and gluten free chicken nuggets, and even at a sausage back in May. now- summer holidays- he's back on hunger strike. Will only eat crisps, biscuits, chips, pizza, buckwhat pancakes, toast and butter- even refused cheese on toast tooday which he does normally eat.

I just hope he goes back to being more adventurous once he gets back to school.

[hunkermunker]

Bobbybob, nothing sorted re the peanuts at nursery yet?

[PeachyClair]

Jimjams- know what you mean! DS1 gets worse and worse on the food front! Has got into the nothing that touches bit (think he comes on here and reads what other AS kids do!0, hasn't had meat in ages! just leaves it. We told him we didnt want him choosing chips at school every day, so he refuses to eat them now. Frankly, My child IS like Max Wilde!!

(But he doesn't get Sunny D. My Dh and I used to work for them, know too much!).

[bobbybob]

I personally would be delighted if the nursery oven's broke down and it was chips all round. it would make a nice change from them serving up processed peanut product right next to my nut allergic son.

I'm with Jimjams, there are worse things than chips. Ds can't have bananas or avocados as he is allergic to latex - but chips and chocolate would be fine.

[Jimjams]

BUt ds3 (7 months) has at least half an avocado (or he'd want and avocado and a banana for lunch) and he probably wouldn't eat a half tin of beans (maybe a third?). It is about profit in the end because nurseries are a business so if they fed babies expensive foods they woould have to up their prices then they'd be un-competitive- unless people were willing to pay a premium. I agree with you about fresh food vs whatever, but I do think beans would be a lot cheaper (actually the most expensive option is undoubtadly the chip buties).

PMSL @ arguing about avocado vs baked beans for babies (actually I've never given the baby baked beans). I do think its funny that people get so serious about one meal. I've been singgering my way through this thread.

DS1's diet is so utterly dreadful and limited that I was overjoyed when school managed to get him eating chips. One of his last Monday outings (they go out most weeks) they had chips on a park bench. I think he may have eaten it as well- which is amazing. Can't be a food fascist when your child won't eat anything.

[Gobbledigook]

Hee hee!!

[PeachyClair]

Blame it on my botched parenting skills if you like, I don't care !

[vickiyumyum]

peachycalir - snap amybe its the avocado making them ill behave (got to blame it on something other than my botched parenting skills!)

[PeachyClair]

My kids are bloody awfully behaved, but well fed, and LOVE avocado! Yum, yum!

[Hulababy]

Glad to hear I am not the only one. I am not keen on Avacado either; find it really bland and boring. Used to give DD it when tiny, but she isn't bothered with it now either. She does eat most other stuff though. I do like using in other stuff though.

The chips as a one off wouldn't bother me to much. But then I know that DD's nursery is really good and we are very happy with it, so I would know it wasn't a regular thing.

[Gobbledigook]

My children are perfectly well bred, fed and behaved but, quite rightly, would turn their nose up at avocado - BLEURGH!

[Aimsmum]

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[Gobbledigook]

Not read other posts so not sure if I'm going against the grain here (suspect I am) but it wouldn't bother me - it's only a one off, they probably loved the novelty, it's not going to kill them.

I only hope they put gravy on their chips - YUMMY!

[vickiyumyum]

i think baked beans taste nice too, warmed up on a jacket potato or piece of toast, but not cold to my 8 month old! sorry just my opinion.
i don't like avocado either but my two ds love it, because i gave it to them when they were weaning, they now eat it in salads or just on its own! personally think it tastes of nothing and has an unpelasant texture but when i was a childminder and fed it to the kids in my care no one ever spat it out much to my surprise!

[PeachyClair]

Oh, and beans are 11p in my local Asda. And oven chips 40p a large bag. I'm not surprised people on a low income give in to them sometimes; I would! (and do occasionally)

[PeachyClair]

As a once off- fine, no problems, nice surprise for the kids. If it happens again- problem!

[colditz]

The problem with serving avocado is that although well bred, well fed, well behaved children will eat it, most won't.

Personally I don't have it in the house because I think it tastes like snot, and I have no objection to baked beans because they taste nice.

Surely some food has got to be all about the taste? We can't just choose foods purely for nutritional content. Some very nutritious foods absolutely ming taste-wise!