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What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« on: September 21, 2006, 10:54:48 am »
We have to provide our own food at creche which is not a problem but I feel like I give him the same stuff all the time.  He either gets a Sandwich with Ham or Cheese (when feeling adventurous both!), Soup, Pasta (tins) or leftovers from previous nights dinner.

He does get a well balanced diet all round but any ideas on what else he could get when he goes to creche?  He is 23 months.





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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2006, 19:15:17 pm »
Does the creche have facilities to heat food?

Our daycare nursery has a cook who comes in each day to prepare meals fresh.  They do the menus on a four-week rota so you can see what they are going to have each day for dinner and pudding and as lo is only 7mo we can opt out and send our own if we want and they'll heat it up no problem.  It means he can also try a new dish each week which mught be something we wouldn't usually cook at home.  The babies have the same as the bigger kids but it is blended for them.

The nursery do things like lamb hotpot, chicken and veg casserole, spag bol and lentil stew with usually fruit, yoghurt, jelly, custard or icecream for pudding.  It sounds pretty much like what you are giving your child.

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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2006, 18:31:38 pm »
My 18 mth old eats absolutely anything the nursery give him (besides white fish which he hates !).  They have a cook who cooks everything from scratch - and I have to admitt the food there smell delicious !  The only thing is that he doesn't like my food anymore !!!!

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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2006, 21:12:24 pm »
linfran,

Your nursery sounds exactly like ours - even down to the menus - So much so it seems like your lo could be at the same nursery as ours  :P

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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2006, 21:57:27 pm »
Stacy,

Thomas eats better at nursery than we at home / work.  Some of his lunch meals sound so delicious and the puddings....... i better not even go there.... they sound just tooo goooood
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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2006, 12:27:52 pm »
 ;D LOL - and you even get your own mat to nap on too  ;D
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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2006, 12:50:17 pm »
The centre that Andrew went to had catered lunches and they are so good that I'm thinking of signing myself up.  Except he refuses to eat certain things now because I "make them wrong".  ::)
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Re: What does your LO eat for lunch at creche/daycare?
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2006, 18:52:35 pm »
Jason has his own cot to nap in - and the naps are in a darkened room with a CD playing soft music - I wanna move in!!!  This is daycare N. Ireland style!