Hello all, I've just had our little girls nursery slots confirmed and have began wondering what would be best to pack for her lunches? Currently, she'll have some leftover last night's dinner for lunch or some form of egg, toast, beans, Avocado etc but this may not always be possible for nursery. She needs help still with spoon feeding and likes to pick things up with her fingers and feed herself.
Does anyone have any ideas on what to pack for lunch or have you started your nursery adventure already with your little one? Any ideas would be welcome 🙏
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Will your nursery be feeding them? I only say this as ours provides the food for them in order to control allergies etc, children with allergies sit on diff tables / sat in diff areas and different colour tables x
@Charley No ours won't be which is a shame but there you go! They provide a fresh fruit snack but that's it.

I give sandwiches, cucumber and tomato pieces, grapes, pear, rice cakes, a biscotti.
The nursery feed him Weetabix for breakfast with a spoon and since then he refuses to use the spoon himself 🤦 so finger foods work best for us.

We have to do one packed lunch a week and I got one of those bento style lunch boxes so I can give a few different bits. Things that have worked well - egg mayonnaise with a spoon, yogurt, cold steamed carrot, thin slices of cucumber, tuna sandwiches, rice cakes, melty sticks, fingers of chicken. I try and think: one protein, one fruit, one vegetable, and something carby. Cold pasta is on my mind to try. The nursery are happy to spoon feed him a bit, but I try and get a good amount of finger foods and make sure they're all prepped how I would want him to eat them, ie. Grapes cut into quarters, berries slightly squashed.