Served between 8.30 am – 9.30 am, with a choice of toast, cereals or fruit. The older children self-serve their breakfast snack and sit down with their friends to eat. Water and milk are available to drink and we encourage all children to enjoy this snack, especially if they had their breakfast at home early before leaving for nursery.
Lunch at Angels is a full-cooked meal including pudding. All lunchtime food is freshly prepared in the morning ready to be served by 11.30 am. Quiches, curries, chilli, roasts etc are all homemade and like all the other meals on offer use fresh ingredients delivered weekly.
All puddings are also freshly prepared and baked on-site, so cakes, custard, fruit puddings etc are also made in the morning. Water is always offered to drink at lunchtime.
Tea
Tea at Angels is served at 4 pm. It is a “High Tea” (see definition) and as such is not intended to be the last meal of the day. Teatime is a very enjoyable time at nursery and it enables the children to rest and refuel for the last part of the day. Tea is predominantly finger food offering a balanced selection of savoury and sweet foods always with fresh fruit or veggie sticks and a drink of either water or milk. Again the food is freshly prepared and cooked on site and all cakes and biscuits are homemade.
Drinks
All children are offered water throughout the day; this is cool boiled water for children under 12 months. Cows milk is offered as a choice for all children over 12 months at breakfast and teatime.
Our menus are planned and designed to offer a varied, nutritious and well-balanced diet, with food freshly prepared daily on-site. We aim to introduce the children to different tastes and textures whilst encouraging enjoyment of food, good manners and a happy atmosphere when we sit down for meal times with our friends.
Special Dietary Requirements
As we prepare our food daily on the premises, we can cater for special dietary requirements, by prior arrangement. This also means that these children are offered a similar alternative e.g. vegetarian chilli, egg and dairy-free cake, custard made with oat milk etc.
Allergen information for our menus is available on request.
Eating and drinking are very important developmentally for babies and young children. At Angels we work closely with the parents of the babies, especially at the weaning stage. We offer a variety of pureed fruit and vegetables in the first instance, all freshly prepared and cooked on-site, and will then introduce other ingredients in line with what is being offered at home, such as meat and dairy products, until the parents are confident that their children are ready to be introduced to the full menu (all be it pureed to start with).
Snack and tea times offer excellent opportunities for the younger children to experience finger foods and to master drinking from free-flow cups.