nursery lunch

[milkysmum]

My dd is 9 months and I'm after ideas's to send with her for her lunch at nursery. She goes 3 days a week and I'm finding thinking of things to send with her is getting more and more tiresome. She's a BLW gal and can manage feeding herself well. I've been sending sandwiches- usually cheese and tomato or something similar, with some fruit and yogurt. You can purchase meals for an additional cost but when I looked at the menu it was things like lasagna, fish and chips, pizza and fries etc and I wasn't convinced these sounded like suitable food for a 9 month old as I am worried about the salt content? Any ideas's/ comments welcome!

Lentil wedges - can have cold with some tomatoes.

Pita with humous or falafel or whatever fillings you have.

Pasta salad. With sweetcorn, peas whatever. If your DD can do the pincer thing.

Left over roast potatoes and veg sticks.

I'm sure they make sure that the salt content is low or non existent - have you asked.

Just looked at the recipes for the lentil wedges- they sound great think I'll try making some this weekend!
I asked the nursery staff about the salt and they didn't sound sure, they've never had anyone doing BLW either so I just thought that if the food was really meant for toddlers it might have some added salt which under one's can't have? Maybe I should just ask to speak straight to the cook.

Things my 1 yr old DD likes for lunch:

Other good sandwich fillings: Houmous (easy to make yourself if you're worried about salt content in shop-bought stuff) & cream cheese go down really well (not together).

Raw veg sticks - peppers and cucumber are favourites.

Other types of bread-ey stuff - raisin loaf, cheesey scones, mini pancakes.

Frittata / omelette / tortilla goes down very well with my DD. I pack it with veggies and cut it into triangles once it's cold. She loves it.

Homemade pizza. Easy to make it healthy. I make mini pizzas using just tomato puree, herbs and cheese on a wholemeal bap and topping with veg/chicken/tuna etc.

You child is entirely unlikely to get overloaded with salt as a result of following a normal diet without huge amounts of bacon, macdonalds and ready meals.

Seriously. 50% of this country's babies would be dead or dying of they really needed to have their diet minutely controlled.

Your right colditz that sounds very true- she doesn't eat any of those things so I guess I just need to chill out and stop worrying about the salt so much- I generally make home cooked food with no salt so the odd bit in something now and again won't harm her I guess! Thank you.