We provide healthy, nutritionally balanced and enjoyable meals for the children.  Our menu is regularly reviewed and we use a four week rolling menu to provide plenty of variation and interest.  We use good quality, fresh and wholesome ingredients, minimising the use of refined and processed foods, saturated fats, salt and sugar.  We use organic fruit and vegetables from a local source.  All meals are cooked in house by our cook.

Breakfast

Children who arrive before 8.15am are served cereals, toast, water, milk or juice for breakfast.  Mid morning snack is served at 9.45am and comprises of a selection of fruit and a drink.  Lunch is a hot two course meal with a selection of salad and vegetable sticks and children have a light tea served with vegetable sticks.  Cakes are baked for special occasions and our cook prepares healthy cakes such as banana loaf and malt loaves at tea-time.

For Babies

For babies being weaned their first foods are introduced in close consultation with parents.  We are then able to offer a wide variety of nutritious home made baby foods specially prepared from fresh organic vegetables and fruit, with the gradual introduction of different textures and tastes (again in close liaison with parents).

Baking

All our children of every age bake at least once a week with a little help from our staff!

Meals and snacks are a very important part of the day here at Hollins Wood. Children can benefit greatly from the experience of sharing meal times with their peers and the staff. We have developed a routine for the children so that they can be involved in the preparation of meals and snacks. This helps them to develop a sense of responsibility and independence as well as learning about numbers, etc. Please click here to see a full copy of our meal time routine. Please click on the orange image at top right to download a copy of our current full four week menu cycle.