Healthy Eating in the Nursery

This week is Healthy Eating week in school. We are always trying to promote healthy eating, the majority of our snacks are fruit and vegetables. Furthermore when cooking with the children we endeavour to include healthy options. Today the children enjoyed a snack consisting of a rice cakes, with toppings of their choice...they had a varied array of toppings to choose from; grapes, cucumber, tomatoes, raisins, banana. The children were encouraged to spread low fat cheese or margarine on their own rice cake and then decorate it with the toppings of their own choice. We encourage the children's independence skills at every opportunity.  By using the knife to spread, the children were developing their fine motor skills, they were also discussing the foods they liked and disliked, demonstrating reciprocity whilst conversing with their peers! By the end of this session all of the children had, had the opportunity to spread using a knife, make independent food choices and talk about the process. Tutu said "I like grapes they are 1 of my 5 a day".