Yes, on both parts. You can specify your/your child's preferences (see "vegetarian substitution"), but any food you bring in must be USDA organic since the whole kitchen is certified as such.
The fact that I could have just been deadpanning is what makes this menu so amazing.
I feel a little sheepish in admitting I would love to find a daycare with a menu like this.
Oh, I'm glad he's going to be eating well, too. And the preschoolers help cook as part of their curriculum, which is super cool. I am just being a self-loathing yipster over here. It's a lot of foodie snobbery packed into a single week's menu, and the whole place is like one shade crunchier than is my personal ideal, but the teachers seem really good and the place is trying to construct a positive vibe, so I'm sure he'll turn out okay.
After all the talk on MMM about protein I wish there were more of it, and I am LOLing at the idea of trying to get toddlers to eat salad. But allinall it's pretty rad.
you guys, V's new daycare in Park Slope West aka Ballard/Fremont reads like frozen concentrated yuppie/hipster. Just kidding, yuppie hipsters would never eat anything frozen & concentrated.
Great menu! I wish all day cares/schools did this in America! This type of menu of food is so common in Europe. My kids were served a first and second course for lunch every day! The first was always soup and they have tried so many different flavors that they aren't picky eaters in comparison to others!
Gotta love Seattle. I'm jealous of DS' daycare menu (same place as catbus' kid). I wish I could eat off that menu! He gets BBQ chicken with potatoes & corn tomorrow. Lemon Pancakes & Blueberry syrup earlier this week for breakfast. Sounds delicious!
And they are really slumming it for second snack on Friday with their glorified goldfish...
They're hipster toddlers, so they'll eat them ironically.
The spacing on the menu is throwing me off. I was wondering what "pumpkin spice carrot" was (is the spice baked on? Infused?) until I saw "bread" on the next line. So now I'm just making stuff up, like "pineapple with yogurt water."
Those sound good...maybe my kid would be better off in daycare. I sure as hell am not cooking that stuff for lunch for 2...An entire daycare you might actually get some kids to eat it. I cook anything unusual for my kids & all I hear is whining & it ends up in the trash. I'd like some adventurous, hipster kids to cook for damn it!
you guys, V's new daycare in Park Slope West aka Ballard/Fremont reads like frozen concentrated yuppie/hipster. Just kidding, yuppie hipsters would never eat anything frozen & concentrated.
Great menu! I wish all day cares/schools did this in America! This type of menu of food is so common in Europe. My kids were served a first and second course for lunch every day! The first was always soup and they have tried so many different flavors that they aren't picky eaters in comparison to others!
Yes, clearly all picky eaters are that way because their parents only ever offer them peanut butter sandwiches and chicken fingers. Duh. I can't believe I have never thought of offering my picky eater MORE foods to get him to eat.
@house4me, where were you? My daughter's menu in Paris did not resemble this at all. It was heavy on white rice, bland steamed veggies and some kind of animal or fish-based protein. According to her, it all tasted the same after a while, except for the cheese course. I do think the cheese course prepared her for a successful career as a cheese monger.
ETA: my daughter also used to eat duck confit regularly at age 4, but at age 6 she doesn't care for it anymore. Kids can get picky sometimes for reasons like it's easy to control what you eat when 1st grade homework sucks and is beyond your control.
That was filmed at our old Whole Foods. Parking there is a complete shit show. Our daycare menu was similar except no cheddar bunnies, more artisan breads and cheeses, everyday had a vegetarian option, and tzatziki sauce was the vegetable dipping sauce of choice. Got to love LA!
off topic, but the line "these dudes with clipboards are looking at me like they know me" ... do you have the Clipboard Brigade there too? (the people who hit you up for money for the ACLU/planned parenthood/Human Rights Campaign/Sierra Club/whatever). I have only seen them in Seattle and NYC.
@house4me, where were you? My daughter's menu in Paris did not resemble this at all. It was heavy on white rice, bland steamed veggies and some kind of animal or fish-based protein. According to her, it all tasted the same after a while, except for the cheese course. I do think the cheese course prepared her for a successful career as a cheese monger.
ETA: my daughter also used to eat duck confit regularly at age 4, but at age 6 she doesn't care for it anymore. Kids can get picky sometimes for reasons like it's easy to control what you eat when 1st grade homework sucks and is beyond your control.
The schools in the UK don't serve food like this either.
off topic, but the line "these dudes with clipboards are looking at me like they know me" ... do you have the Clipboard Brigade there too? (the people who hit you up for money for the ACLU/planned parenthood/Human Rights Campaign/Sierra Club/whatever). I have only seen them in Seattle and NYC.
We used to, but they were banned . So, WF and TJs shoppers can do so without being harassed. I remember having to run toward the entrance, reusable bags in hand ( plastics are banned too, $0.10 per bag fee for paper), not making eye contact with anyone, until you were inside the store. It was awful!
Sorry not sorry Acorn and Greenpeace. Sometimes a girl just wants to buy her organic conflict/cruelty/ GMO/gluten free certified fair trade body wash without being distracted. I mean, damn.
That's a city that knows how to get shit done. We're too polite up here. The city council debated an anti-panhandling law but didn't pass it. Which is probably for the better, but it could have been used to get rid of the clipboard people.
Pffffft. So not impressed. My 13-month-old grows her own food in daycare's yard.
Alright is this true? I can't tell anymore.
In Europe they not only grow all the food, they harvest the seeds for the following year. And slaughter the organic chickens themselves starting at age three.
It was most certainly false. My kid just are dog food the other day.
Gotta love Seattle. I'm jealous of DS' daycare menu (same place as catbus' kid). I wish I could eat off that menu! He gets BBQ chicken with potatoes & corn tomorrow. Lemon Pancakes & Blueberry syrup earlier this week for breakfast. Sounds delicious!
And the "syrup" is, like, no-added-sugar homemade sauce. LOL. The director sends out notices every few months clarifying that they don't add sugar, use organic when available, etc. I always wonder what parents are asking to trigger those emails.
Great menu! I wish all day cares/schools did this in America! This type of menu of food is so common in Europe. My kids were served a first and second course for lunch every day! The first was always soup and they have tried so many different flavors that they aren't picky eaters in comparison to others!
Yes, clearly all picky eaters are that way because their parents only ever offer them peanut butter sandwiches and chicken fingers. Duh. I can't believe I have never thought of offering my picky eater MORE foods to get him to eat.
It typically takes 15 or more offerings of a new food for a kid to learn to like it. It's hard to offer a food 15 or more times when the kid repeatedly dislikes it.
@house4me, where were you? My daughter's menu in Paris did not resemble this at all. It was heavy on white rice, bland steamed veggies and some kind of animal or fish-based protein. According to her, it all tasted the same after a while, except for the cheese course. I do think the cheese course prepared her for a successful career as a cheese monger.
ETA: my daughter also used to eat duck confit regularly at age 4, but at age 6 she doesn't care for it anymore. Kids can get picky sometimes for reasons like it's easy to control what you eat when 1st grade homework sucks and is beyond your control.
The schools in the UK don't serve food like this either.
Yeah I lived in Switzerland and Austria. Here is a menu example.
Yes, clearly all picky eaters are that way because their parents only ever offer them peanut butter sandwiches and chicken fingers. Duh. I can't believe I have never thought of offering my picky eater MORE foods to get him to eat.
It typically takes 15 or more offerings of a new food for a kid to learn to like it. It's hard to offer a food 15 or more times when the kid repeatedly dislikes it.
You clearly don't understand that for some kids you can offer a food 10000 times and they still won't eat if. Please don't assume that because your kids have soup before their meals that this is what makes them good eaters. Having a truly picky eater is so much more than repeatedly offering foods to children. You have NO idea how stressful it is as a parent, and how annoying when someone flippantly comments that their children eat well because they do (blank), thereby assuming other parents don't.