Cuisine
Here at Wishing Well our fully trained cook caters to your children in our 5 star Environmental Health rated kitchen with an exceptional nutritionally balanced diet and cuisine, providing your child with their 5 a day fruit and vegetables. We source local products to use in our cuisine, alongside this we also grow our own fruit, herbs and vegetables in our garden patches in which your children have a hands on input in.
Our cuisine caters for children’s dietary requirements and offers delicious vegetarian options, as well as alternatives for allergy requirements. Our seasonal menus’ run through the spring/summer and are then swapped to our autumn/winter selections, each menu runs on a three week cycle. The weekly menu is rotated so your child will experience all the meals we offer no matter how many days they attend. Our food runs through the day with breakfast, snacks, a two course lunch and tea.
Meal times are very important to us as a group. At our meal times we encourage polite table manners and etiquette as it is an important step to prepare them for life beyond the nursery such as school and home. In our Little Explorer and Nursery Classrooms your child will begin to self-serve their own meals with assistance from our staff and will become ‘helpers,’ this initiative allows your child to help our staff in setting up the tables ready for meal times, this has proved widely popular with both parents and children as it promotes a sense of independence with the children. Your children also have fresh drinking water available to them throughout the day and are provided individual drinking bottles.
Summer Menu Example
Breakfast Snack | Lunch | PM Snack | Tea | |
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Monday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Pancakes | Pasta Bolognese / Brownies | Selection of Melon | Sandwiches with variety of filling & vegetable sticks | |
Tuesday | A Seclection of non-sugary cereals with bananas | Tuna & Cheese Fish Cakes with Carrots & Sweetcorn with Parsley / Raspberry Blancmange | Cheese Straws | Jacket Potato with Cheese & Coleslaw | |
Wednesday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Waffles | Macaroni Cheese with Mixed Vegetables / Cheesecake with different toppings | Mixed Fruit | Chicken Fajitas with wraps | |
Thursday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Raspberry yoghurt | Quiche with Baked Beans / Jelly & Ice Cream | Mango Smoothie | Mini Picnic with a variety of different foods | |
Friday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with mixed summer fruits | Sausage Pinwheel Pie with New Potatoes & Cabbage / Lemon Tart | Flap Jack | Pizza with different toppings |
Winter Menu Example
Breakfast Snack | Lunch | PM Snack | Tea | |
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Monday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Crumpets | Fish Pie with Peas & Parsley Sauce / Apple & Blackcurrent Crumble with Custard | Vegetable Sticks & Dips | Sausage Casserole with Yorkshire Pudding | |
Tuesday | A Seclection of non-sugary cereals with Mixed Fruit | Meatballs with Pasta & Tomato Sauce / Rice Pudding with Jam | Scones with Jam | Beans on Toast | |
Wednesday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Croissants | Sweet & Sour Chicken with Noodles or Rice / Giant Cookies & Ice Cream | Selection of Melon | Jacket Potato with Cheese & Beans | |
Thursday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Bananas & Apples & Yoghurt | Beef Stew & Dumplings with Broccoli / Flap Jack with Cranberries | Cheese & Crackers | Soup with Crusty Bread | |
Friday | A Selection of non-sugary cereal with Toast & Toppings | Vegetable Curry with Naan / Sponge of the week with Custard | Fruit Salad | Burritos with Salad |