Nurturing our nippers or a nanny state?
For the first time, UK nursery schools have received nutritional guidelines and advice about portion sizes for snacks and meals.
Back in March Dame Clare Tickell recommended that the Government ought to make available information for childcare providers and this week the School Food Trust (SFT) has done just that.
Nursery schools now have access to recipes and menus. With dishes like Vegetable and bean pie with suede and cauliflower, Chicken risotto and Apple and rhubarb crumble with custard recommended, children could get to try a whole range of foods.
In contrast, today results of a US study showed that junk food at school doesn’t have an impact on childhood obesity – how kids eat at home explains unhealthy eating.
Surely if children are exposed to healthy, nutritious food from the age of two as the SFT suggests, this could help to change their eating habits for the better?
