Ryan Childcare

Menus

This is just a small selection of what is on offer for your children during the day.
However we can cater for any special dietary requirement where necessary.

Breakfast

Porridge, eggs, yoghurt, fresh fruit, pancakes home made
Toast with sweet or savoury toppings.

Lunch (Hot or Cold)

Beans or egg on toast
Sandwiches with savoury or sweet fillings                                                                       
Natural yoghurt with fresh fruit puree
Lots of fresh fruit, cooked or raw vegetables and salad
Pasta with various toppings

Dinner

Fish and fish cakes (all types of fish from white to oily)
Fresh or tined tuna or salmon, rice, peas and sweet corn
Fresh or tined tuna or salmon pasta bake with vegetables
Veggie sausages.
Vegetarian or beef Bolognese.
A variety of Chicken dinners eg:- cold, casserole, roast
Jacket potatoes with fillings
Home made pizza’s that the children will help make
The above meals are served with different kinds of grains, rice, pasta a variety of potato dishes served a wide selection of vegetables or salad
I also use lentils and a variety of beans on their own in dishes or added to meat ones
I also use pork, lamb and other meats and poultry

Desserts

Ice Cream and fruit fresh or tinned                                         
Yoghurts, Fromage Frais
 Rice pudding
 Bananas and Custard
 Fresh or Tined Fruit

Snack Time

Water or milk
Fresh fruit, rice cakes, home made cakes

Water is available throughout the day.

Water at meal times

All meals are home-made, where possible, including the bread, on occasions.

I offer an additive free, well balanced diet and will take into account any religious, cultural or medical requirements with some guidance from parents.

A good variety of food is available and I do try and encourage the children to eat their fruit and vegetables.

Babies from six months are encouraged to eat the same as the older children and offered finger food to help with chewing and later feeding themselves. The babies will be offered the food mashed, as they get older and introduced to lumps when they are ready.

I encourage the children to wash hands before and after meals.

Menus for babies up to 6 months

This is just a selection of what is on offer for those babies whose parents feel that they need mixed feeding before the current recommended age of six months.

Breakfast

Baby cereal, baby milk mixed with Puréed fruit
Bottle of baby's milk

Lunch

Puréed vegetables:- Carrot & parsnip, potato & carrot,
Puréed root vegetables
Mashed banana,
Puréed fruit (apple & pear)
With baby rice, and a bottle of Baby's milk.

Dinner

Puréed potato and mixed root
Vegetables such as carrot and Swede,
Baby rice & Puréed root vegetables,
And a bottle of baby's milk,

Desert

Baby rice and Puréed apple or Pear
Mashed banana, a bottle of baby's milk.

All meals are normally home-made but I use jars and packets from time to time. Babies between the ages of 4 to 6 months do not need such a wide variety of food to start with as they are just getting use to new tastes and textures.

Boiled water when thirsty.