We require you to provide your child/ren with a healthy, nutritional balanced lunch and snacks while in our care. we provide a hot dinner.

***Please provide the lunch in a container with your child’s name labelled on it. Please provide your child with a water bottle with your child’s name labelled on it.***

***We are a nut free setting due to allergies. Please do not provide any snack for you child that contains nuts. Please do not provide grapes and sausages in your childs snack as these can be a choking hazard.***

We cater for dietary requirements when baking/cooking with the children and will substitute where needed, for example allergies/intolerances, all meat can be substituted for a vegetarian/vegan alternative.

Here are some snack ideas:

  • Veg sticks (carrot, cucumber, peppers) with hummus (Sesame)
  • Selection of Fruit
  • Dried fruit – raisins, sultanas and apricots
  • Yoghurt  (milk-alternative can be used)
  • Cheese (milk-alternative can be used) and crackers (wheat-alternative can be used)
  • Banana bread (wheat, egg-alternative can be used)
  • Bread sticks (wheat) /cheese (milk-alternative can be used) bread sticks
  • Rice cakes – plain and flavoured
  • Oat cakes
  • Wraps (wheat)with filling (ham, cheese (milk-alternative can be used)

When we bake with the children their snack may be that days baking item!

Below is a link to the NHS change for life website which gives some fantastic easy lunch box ideas and swap ideas.

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes

Please take a look at the following for more lunch ideas: