At Rising Stars Nursery we pride ourselves on the quality of nutritious snacks and meals provided on a daily basis. Due to current Covid governance guidance our hot lunch option provided by Zebedee's is not available. Therefore for you child's main lunch meal you will be required to provide your own packed lunch. Due to possible allergies we ask products containing nuts are not included in your child's lunch box and we encourage them to be healthy and nutritionally balanced as possible.    

We encourage independence whenever possible. Examples of which are where the children (excluding the baby room) may choose and help prepare their own food for snack with supervision from a member of staff.

To ensure we meet the needs of the child, we request that all allergies and special dietary requirements are brought to the attention of staff at the time of enrolment. Should any health issues arise later, you are welcome to bring this to our attention at any time.  

Special Treats: If parent/carers wish to bring in cake for their child's birthday this can be supervised and distributed by staff. Please be aware that we will only accept cakes that are in a sealed, manufacturer's container. Unfortunately we are unable to distribute cakes around the nursery that are home made.

​A typical nursery day includes...

Breakfast:
Children can choose from a selection of the following from the trolley: Weetabix, Cheerios,  Rice Crispies, Cornflakes, Shreddies & yoghurt.  Also bread and toast are available with any of the following toppings: butter, jam, marmite, lemon curd.

Drinks available are: milk or water.

Staff are on hand to welcome parents/carers and their children.  The children may choose from activities set out to welcome them. 

​Morning snack:​
Snack will vary throughout the week but examples of what we provide is as follows:
 Fresh fruit pieces, variety of cheeses both hard and soft, bread sticks, rice cakes, dips (houmous, sweet chilli, mango chutney, guacamole) crackers, vegetable crudites, pita bread, tortilla. 
​At every snack time the children have the choice of either milk or water. 

​Lunch: 
Please provide your own packed lunch until further notice.

If and when we can go back to provide hot lunches. The menu changes according to the season and is provided by Zebedee's Lunch Box.  Zebedee's Lunch Box offers a variety of healthy and nutritious lunches. To find out about lunch menus please visit www.zebedees.co.uk 

​Afternoon Snack: As listed above in morning snack
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Tea: Again the tea menus are planned on a weekly basis and will offer the children a lighter alternative to lunch meals. For example sandwiches, scrambled egg, beans on toast, crumpets and homemade soup.

For the costs associated with nursery meals please visit our fees page.