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Does your daycare provide meals
jbl126
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I find myself lucky that my daycare provides breakfast, a hot lunch, and snacks every day. All I need to supply is wipes, diapers, and a spare outfit for the girls. We use an in home daycare and I dont know if that is why but I am glad they provide meals because that is one less thing I have to worry about each week.
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Re: Does your daycare provide meals
ours does; you can pay 15/week for hot lunch.
They do morning and afternoon snacks as part of our tuition.
I don't pay for the hot lunch - it just seems overpriced to me.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
Nope, just snacks. I have to provide breakfast and lunch.
It doesn't matter to me. DS is being raised vegetarian, so I'd probably wind up packing his meals anyway.
I only prepare 2x a week, Sun I make M-Tu-W meals and Wed I make Th-F meals, so it's not so bad. Having a big supply of containers and a couple different lunch coolers helps.
our daycare has a hot lunch program (that now includes breakfast, too, if the child is there before 8:15... at no extra cost!). I LOVE IT!!!!!!!
kids have to be in the 18-2yo class or older... so the next class for the twins they will be on it - and i can not wait! It's SOOOOO nice not to have to stress about packing lunch.... and Griffin really tries a lot of things he might not normally have at home- which i like, too.
we only have to pack a sippy/straw cup of water - and a sippy cup for milk (not anymore for Griffin, though, they use paper open cups at his age now). We do also pack a pm snack- which i JUST found out- after him being on it for almost 2 years --- nobody EVER told us we need to pack a PM snack- they were just giving him stuff they had there - we felt so stupid when we realized it at open house the other night- DUH!
DD's preschool doesn't provide meals. I don't really care either way. There are pluses and minuses to both.
In her current situation, I like that I have more control over what she eats... not that I'm a control freak, but there are certain things that are really important to me. For example, I don't buy fruits/veggies that are on the "dirty dozen" unless I can buy them organic. The "dirty dozen" includes some very common fruits/veggies (strawberries, grapes, lettuce, peaches, etc.) so I'm glad that I can make sure she's getting organic versions of those.
Also, some of the daycares in our area have abysmal menus. One place I was looking at for DS served Frito pie (Frito corn chips and cheese over chili), nachos, donuts for breakfast every Wednesday, etc. I liked the daycare aside from that menu, so if they did NOT provide meals, they would have been a front-runner. Since they DO provide meals (crappy ones!), I eliminated them.
The downside is that DD does cave to peer pressure, so I think she'd be more likely to eat a wider variety of foods if she saw her classmates eating them. Instead, I have to stick to tried-and-true favorites, so she gets less variety.
It's not a big deal to throw together some lunch for her each day. If I could find a daycare that provided really healthy food, that would be a HUGE plus... but if I'm choosing between a daycare that provides no food and one that provides so-so food, it's pretty much a toss-up or a slight advantage to the no-food daycare. And if I'm choosing between a daycare that provides no food and one that provides really unhealthy food (like the Frito pie place), the no-food daycare has a distinct advantage.
Mommy to DD1 (June 2007), DS (January 2010), DD2 (July 2012), and The Next One (EDD 3/31/2015)
Yup!
We go to a daycare center, and they provide two snacks and a meal.
I love it.
Yes - lunch and snacks, and I like it, although I'm not always thrilled with the options. Nothing like Frito pie is on the menu though, that is gross. But, I like DD to eat what she is served and not be fussy about it and I think that the peer pressure helps. Plus they serve her things that I would never in a million years make at home - like ham. I hate ham, but she seems to eat it right up. So I'm not passing my food oddities down to her.
It's been included in the baby/pre-toddler rooms, once we go to the 2 year old room I think it is an extra $45 a month. I could probably send lunch for cheaper, but it's not worth the hassle.