TKC Day Nursery menus
NUTRITION AT TKC
TKC Day Nursery menus provides fresh, seasonal ingredients that reflect a diversity of cultures and tastes. This allowing children to experience an exciting range of tastes, smells and textures. Mealtimes are a sociable occasion at TKC. Tables are set and prepared where the children are encouraged to serve their own meals and pour their own drinks. Practitioners sit with the children using this as a opportunity to chat and socialise. A sample TKC Menu can be viewed here.
As well as eating delicious food each day, TKC practitioners incorporate healthy living and eating into our Curriculum. During their time at nursery your little one will get lots of opportunities to prepare their own meals. Cooking helps children to learn to measure, weigh and count their way to a healthy meal. It also helps: develop fine and gross motor skills; teaches children about hygiene and encourages fussy eaters to try new types of food. By creating a positive association with healthy ingredients, we aim to instil healthy choices that will last a lifetime. Fresh air through lots of active play, healthy meals/snacks and encouragement to drink water, are simple ways TKC achieve this.
What can you expect from the TKC menu:
- selection of fresh fruit, water and milk a which is available for snack time.
- nutritious food that’s been freshly prepared
- delicious, healthy and balanced meals and snacks
- a wide variety of lovely flavours, textures and smells
TKC Day Nursery have consistently been awarded 5 stars by the Food Standards Agency. For more information check out our food rating on the Food Standards Agency website. Please also take a look at the Chapel and Heald Green webpages, and TKC Blogs for information of the meals and snacks the children have made.
TKC Day Nursery menus
PACKED LUNCHES
If you decide to send your child to nursery with a packed lunch instead of paying for TKC meals, TKC have guidelines on what will be allowed into nursery.
TKC have a responsibility to encourage healthy eating for all children, so please do not add any processed foods in your little ones lunchbox. This includes the following *chocolates, *chocolate bars, *chocolate biscuits, any *crisps, any foods containing nuts, drinks high in sugar, fizzy drinks, sweets and cakes. Please do not bring takeaway foods such as burgers, chips and kebabs to nursery. Staff will send home any items which fall into the unhealthy nursery lunchbox category. *Items allowed in moderation.
Please view the video below or list the British Nutrition Foundation here.