Our menu at The Flower Cottage

At The Flower Cottage I ensure that we meet the Early Years Foundation Stage requirements for food and drink. A wide range of food choices are offered to the children to encourage new textures, tastes and develop good eating habits. Supporting social skills throughout meal times is also important, we sit down together as a group, enjoy our meal, often provide self serve dishes, pour our own water and have some wonderful conversations during this period. 

When creating my weekly menus I use the input from parents/carers, child's voice and their interests along with the example menus for Early Years for support, you can read more information by clicking the link here: Example menus for early years settings in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

I also provide lots of food tasting sessions throughout each season or when festivals/celebrations are happening. 

You will find one of our menu's that I have created for the setting below along with images of some of our meals.