Reminder Healthy Choices

Post date: Oct 13, 2009 7:53:50 AM

Our curriculum goals are reflected during meal times. We teach healthy eating habits, practice language and social interactions. We eat family- style, which means we sit down with the children, so we can spend quality time with them as well as ensuring their safety during meals, protecting them from potential accidents such as choking. When you are packing meals for your child, please consider the nutritional value of the choices you offer. Also, as the teachers must remain in the classroom, sitting with the children, please send in your child’s food ready-to-eat. If you pack something that needs to be heated, please heat it and put it in a thermos. If the meal needs refrigeration, please pack an ice pack. If your child will only eat their food peeled and sliced please send it in that way. We will not serve high sugar/ salt foods to your child. If you send in food with no nutritional value we will send it home. Some examples of foods we will not serve your child are: Chocolate granola bars, cookies, donuts, snack cakes, chips, cheetos, chocolate milk and Hi-C. Here are some alternatives: yo-baby yogurt (much healthier than go-gurt or Trix), fruit cups in juice (not syrup), fruit bars, popcorn, peanuts, goldfish, pretzels, raisins, fresh fruit, cottage cheese, real fruit snacks and 100% fruit juice

For a full day at school, children (besides infants) are offered two snacks around 9:30, lunch- a main course plus two sides around noon, and two more snacks around 3. If a child is here before 730, you may send in a breakfast choice as well. If a child is here after 5, we recommend sending an additional snack just in case they start getting hungry before pick-up.