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Nutrition at the Secret Garden It is our aim at the Secret Garden to provide our children with a well balanced, healthy and nutritious menu of real home-cooked food made from good quality fresh ingredients. A child’s eating habits and tastes are formed very early in childhood, so we feel it is important to introduce our children to a variety of good wholesome meals which they can enjoy and experience together. Our cook Jenny Johnson prepares fresh meals on a daily basis which cater for the growing needs of all our children who are eating solid foods. Fresh purees are provided for the babies until they are ready for food which requires chewing, and the menus are rotated on a six-weekly basis to ensure that the children receive an adequate supply of the appropriate proteins, vitamins and minerals required for their growth and development. If you are weaning your child, the staff will be happy to support you and cater for your child’s ever-changing diet as he or she learns to enjoy new foods according to the stage he or she has reached. The menus, which are always on display in the nursery reception for parents’ information, are designed to provide a low sugar diet with no added salt, from a variety of different cultural culinary disciplines, to encourage the children to develop healthy and varied eating habits. We avoid where possible the use of commercially produced foods and jars which can have a lower nutritional content and can contain other less nutritious ingredients such as bulking agents. Most specific individual dietary needs can be catered for, including illnesses, intolerances and allergies. In addition, we consider mealtimes to be a good opportunity for learning, in particular for our younger children who are exploring new tastes and textures and getting stuck in with their hands, learning to feed themselves. At nursery, your child can learn to handle and try new foods and we don’t mind cleaning up the mess! Older children are encouraged to learn to sit together politely at a table, help to set up and clear away, share with other children and make conversation. The nursery staff sit with the children at mealtimes and encourage them in all of these aspects, while setting the example for good table manners and behaviour and taking the opportunity to use the setting for educational discussion about colours, tastes, textures, etc. We also cover healthy eating as a topic and teach tooth hygiene as part of the nursery education syllabus, which reinforces the good habits we try to establish through the meals we provide. Most importantly, the nursery staff make a great effort to make mealtimes a fun and sociable time, where good eating habits are developed, friendships are forged and good manners are encouraged!
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