Meals and Nutrition

At Grena Road Day Nursery and Preschool, we offer a varied and nutritionally balanced diet, essential to every child’s development and active participation during their time at nursery and at home.  Children attending a full day at our nursery will enjoy breakfast, morning and afternoon snack, a hot lunch with pudding and a light tea.

Seasonal produce

All our meals reflect seasonal local produce and are prepared daily with ingredients selected for their absolute freshness and quality.  By always focusing on ‘fresh is best’, Spencer, our fully trained Chef, does not use salt, pepper, sugar, colouring, artificial flavourings or additives to excite our children’s taste buds! 

Every child is an individual

In addition to milk or water at meal times, drinking water is always available throughout the day. Our children develop their independence by choosing their own cups and our babies enjoy one to one care from their Key Person.  This personalised approach ensures our staff support you and your baby when your baby develops from milk to pureed, finely chopped, chopped or normal foods.  Our delicious meals and positive approach to meal times ensure any child’s eating habits are developed with patience, understanding and a lot of encouragement.

We celebrate and value diversity with exciting menus which reflect each individual child’s requirements (allergies, intolerances, religion and culture).  Our families through the Parent Nursery Association and daily chats with their child’s Key Person support the nursery chef in planning and selecting recipes for their nursery menu.

From the recent Ofsted report "The quality of the meals and snacks is a real strength of the provision. Children enjoy healthy, balanced, hygenically prepared menus."

Sample Menus from our Chef Spencer Ward

Take look at some of the sample menus put together by our Chef. He ensures our children receive a varied, healthy diet with fresh ingredients.

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