December 2011 Moms

Homemade Food at Daycare?

I've seen other posts about homemade food and people bringing it to daycare.  I'm not sure of everyone's situations though.  We're at a Center and I'm not allowed to bring my homemade food in.  I haven't figured out the exact reason yet (I still need to talk to the director), but his teacher alluded to the fact that it's a State Regulation thing.  To me, this is no different than bringing in pumped breast milk. 

Has anyone else run into this?  I'm probably uptight, but I don't like the food they provide so I've been buying organic to bring with him so he can eat during the day.  Since I'm still introducing single foods, this is pretty tough.  For example, there is no avocado or zucchini in packaged foods, and these are two that he's already had and liked.  He's been having only peas for lunch for 2 weeks and if I were  him, I'd be sick of it :(  Tonight we try green beans so that will give him another option...

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  • We bring homemade baby food to DC and there is no problem.  It's refridgerated so I'm not sure why your DC has a problem with it.  I would definitely talk to the director to find out why.

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  • ours has to be in a container that's labeled and dated, but that's it.
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  • I just exchanged emails with our director.  At their most recent health/sanitation inspection they were told that the agency is changing their stance on homemade food for infants under 1.  So they are in the process of developing a waiver for parents to sign right now.  Yay!  I just hope it will happen sooner rather than later so that DS can take advantage.
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  • No I have not - do you have any brand suggestions?  I've checked out Target, Whole Foods, and two of our large local grocery chains.  I'm in St. Louis, so a large metro area....just not having a ton of luck.  I see a lot of peas, green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, apples and pears.  I didn't think avocado came packaged!!
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