Healthy food in daycare and crèche

Healthy nutrition in the crèche is a hot topic. Especially when the parents If you send your crèche breakfast and lunch for your children, you could support and advise the parents in this regard, because in the area of healthy early childhood nutrition there is still a lack of knowledge and uncertainty.

You help the parents by educating them about the optimal nutrition for every age group or by looking after the children themselves in their crèche. If you offer breakfast, lunch or snacks in the crèche, it is important that you take into account some key findings of nutritional research and incorporate them into your day-to-day nursery. For children up to the age of 3 years, the diet should be based on the 5 central food groups protein, carbohydrates, dairy products, fruits and vegetables.

Take into account the principles of nutritional research

You ensure a healthy and varied diet if you take the findings from nutritional research to heart. How you can implement this in your crib is shown below.

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Mix the 5 food groups

A child in your crèche is optimally nourished if it eats a mixed diet from all 5 food groups every day. It is enough completely off if your nursery’s menu includes meat, fish or sausage once or twice a week. Dairy products, carbohydrates and fruits or vegetables from the crib should be consumed several times a day.

Measure sugar and spices sparingly

Regardless of whether you provide the children in your crèche with breakfast or lunch, make sure that the preparation is as mild as possible and that spices and sugar are used very sparingly. The children’s taste buds are still very sensitive up to the age of 5.

Cover the child’s calcium needs

Due to the rapid bone growth in early childhood, the calcium requirement of the crib child is very high. Take this into account by serving the child a dairy product for lunch and snacks – that is, about 2 to 3 times a day. The presentation would be varied with a glass of milk or cocoa, a cheese or sandwich, cheese snacks, a quark or yoghurt dish, a portion of semolina porridge, milk rice or a scoop of ice cream.

Introduce the child to fruit and vegetables

As far as possible, use regional seasonal fruits and vegetables. In this way, you protect the financial budget of your crib and hold on the other hand, the pollution of food at a low level. Whenever possible, provide high quality organically grown fruits and vegetables.

Encourage the children to try again and again by offering very different fruits and vegetables. Cucumber, carrot and kohlrabi sticks, kiwi slices and apple slices tempt even those crib children to snack and try out who do not know this fruit and vegetable from home.

Flatulent vegetables such as beans, cabbage and lentils are not suitable for crib children. You should also not offer cereals with raw cereals to children before the age of 3, as this places too much strain on the child’s digestive tract. As far as possible, refrain from sweets on your menu. Also advise the parents that sweets are superfluous for children’s development and also have an appetite-reducing effect.

Provide a sufficient and varied range of drinks

Offer a varied range of drinks in the crib. Drinks should be available to the crib child at all times without restriction. Unsweetened or only slightly sugared fruit and herbal teas, diluted fruit or vegetable juices, still mineral water or tap water are the ideal basis for the range of drinks for crèche children.

Take into account the principles of nutritional research

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