in May 2024 Babies 🇬🇧

Food at the childminders 😩

My son properly starts with the childminder tomorrow, he will be there for 9 hours and I have to provide all food. He is normally BF so will have some milk provided too. At the moment he just seems to be constantly eating. He turns 1 on the 26th. I have prepared some overnight oats (banana, oats, chia seeds, yoghurt and milk), a cheese wrap for lunch, a banana and pear, 2x crackers, 3x small rice cakes, some vegestraws, 1x banana biscuits thing, some cucumber and tomatoes, some yoghurt mixed with fruit. Does this seem like too much, or not enough? I will give him a BF and offer him some breakfast before I drop him at 8.15 but he doesn’t usually like to eat early. Thankfully I’m working from home tomorrow for my first day back. How much food do you provide?

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We are with a nursery so don’t provide the food (they do it) but just to say as he’s unhappy with settling he is barely eating when there at the moment. You will hopefully find therefore that that’s enough and can always ask them to ring you if he’s piling through it?

I provide breakfast normally overnight weetabix so one weetabix with milk with yoghurt on top and fruit. Lunch is either crackers with cream cheese or tzatziki a sandwich some pasta or soup and then he will take 2 fruits so always a banana and then something else then he takes crisps, biscuits, fruit jellies, fruit laces etc.. my boys only there 7.5 hours though x

I normally do breakfast at home first then a sandwich / wrap with chicken bites or cocktail sausages cut up. 3 pieces of fruit or cucumber, yogurt and an extra snack. He’s there till 5 and provide more than he eats and what he doesn’t eat I keep for the next day. He is a hungry boy.. Although he apparently hates sandwiches so will do left overs if I can for childminder to heat up

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