At the Hunny Nurseries we strive to promote healthy meals and snacks that are both balanced and nutritious. Children have access to drinking water via a water station and theses are located in all their rooms. All of our meals consist of breakfast, lunch, tea, a mid morning snack and a mid afternoon snack. These are based on a three week rota. We operate an summer and a winter menu to offer plenty of culinary dishes and choice.

Aims

• To encourage children to understand the effect a healthy diet has on their well-being
• To encourage children to choose healthy foods
• To encourage children to keep hydrated during the day through the use of the drinking stations.
• To provide a healthy lunch box for all outings the children take part in.

Objectives

• To provide opportunities for cooking
• To provide opportunities to grow and harvest fruit and vegetables in our green house and veg tubs.
• To encourage the children with serving and preparing all meals

Promoting Healthy Eating

• Daily milk is provided for all children
• Daily fruit and veg are also provided and we aim to achieve 4 servings per day
• We monitor children’s snacks, meals and drinks.
• We ask parents to send in a healthier alternative to chocolate and sweets to share with the class when celebrating a birthday

We provide freshly cooked food each day from our team of highly skilled cooks. Food facts that represent our nursery are:

• 90% of our menu items are produced from fresh quality ingredients each day.
• Items like fish fingers & chicken Goujons are made from pieces of fish and chicken and have nothing else added other than bread crumbs
• Because most food is produced from scratch we can ensure there are no additives or preservatives present and none of our products contain MSG or GM.
• All our recipes for desserts are modified to reduce fat & sugar.
• We aim to achieve 4 fruit or vegetables servings each day which is provided to the children through our healthy, nutritional and well balanced summer / winter menus both of which are followed over a four week plan.

We have an excellent food hygiene rating with a top score of 5.

Sample of our menus

MENU: WEEK TWO