One hot lunch and three snacks a day, built on the Canada Food Guide — and what we have learned about getting a cautious eater to try something new.
We serve one hot lunch and three snacks each day, planned around the Canada Food Guide. The menu goes up at the entrance each week so you always know what your child has eaten.
Why hot, and why together
A hot midday meal steadies the back half of the day. The afternoon is when tiredness shows, and a child who has eaten properly at noon manages outside play and pick-up far better than one running on crackers.
Eating together does as much as the food itself. Children who will not touch a vegetable at home will often try it because the child across the table just did. We never make it a contest, and we never make a child finish a plate.
On cautious eaters
Refusing new food is developmentally normal between two and four. Our approach is simply to keep offering without pressure — a new food may need to appear ten or fifteen times before a child will taste it, and being watched closely makes it take longer.
We ask families to send healthy snacks their child can eat after the main dish: fruit, yogurt, raw vegetables. It keeps something familiar on the table alongside whatever is new.
Allergies and restrictions
Every allergy and food restriction is recorded on enrolment and posted in the kitchen. If your child's needs change, tell us the same week — we would far rather adjust a menu than manage a reaction.
