Healthy Eating

Healthy eating at Kinder Park

Adhering to the Early Years Foundation Stage Nutrition Guidance, we offer a two – course nutritious lunch and two healthy snacks each day, as well as breakfast for those children starting at 8.00am.

All meals are freshly cooked in-house by our cook who is level 3 qualified in child health and nutrition.

Qualification gained from LEYF (London Early Years Foundation) Chef Academy.

This qualification has trained our cook to be expert in child nutrition and to help children, staff and parents build healthy habits for life.

Our Menus

Menus are seasonal, fresh, well balanced and are developed to expand the children’s palates. We offer the best mix of nutrients, flavours, textures and food groups every week.

Fish is served weekly, fresh fruit and veg every day, milk with snacks and water at mealtimes as well as providing continual access to drinking water.

We support children to develop an understanding of healthy eating habits which they will carry through life.

We teach our children about food holistically. Alongside the importance of a balanced diet, we provide the children with experiences to develop their understanding and enjoyment of food.

Menus include recipes from around the world to help broaden cultural experiences.

Family Style Meals

Mealtimes are a great opportunity to develop children’s social skills. Our meals are served ‘family style’, meaning children help themselves from serving dishes and sit together with the teachers.

Babies get used to this too, by sitting in low-level seats rather than high chairs.

We help children of all ages develop social skills and independence, such as by helping babies learn to feed themselves, toddlers to use cutlery and pre-schoolers to serve themselves.

We pay particular attention to how food is presented, to make it as appealing as possible.

We ensure alternative foods are presented in a similar way, so that children with allergies or dietary requirements feel included.