Cuisine

Here at Wishing Well our fully trained cook caters to your children in our 5 star Environmental Health rated kitchen with an exceptional nutritionally balanced diet and cuisine, providing your child with their 5 a day fruit and vegetables. We source local products to use in our cuisine, alongside this we also grow our own fruit, herbs and vegetables in our garden patches in which your children have a hands on input in.

Our cuisine caters for children’s dietary requirements and offers delicious vegetarian options, as well as alternatives for allergy requirements. Our seasonal menus’ run through the spring/summer and are then swapped to our autumn/winter selections, each menu runs on a three week cycle. The weekly menu is rotated so your child will experience all the meals we offer no matter how many days they attend. Our food runs through the day with breakfast, snacks, a two course lunch and tea.

Meal times are very important to us as a group. At our meal times we encourage polite table manners and etiquette as it is an important step to prepare them for life beyond the nursery such as school and home. In our Little Explorer and Nursery Classrooms your child will begin to self-serve their own meals with assistance from our staff and will become ‘helpers,’ this initiative allows your child to help our staff in setting up the tables ready for meal times, this has proved widely popular with both parents and children as it promotes a sense of independence with the children. Your children also have fresh drinking water available to them throughout the day and are provided individual drinking bottles.

Summer Menu Example

Breakfast Snack Lunch PM Snack Tea
MondayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with PancakesPasta Bolognese / BrowniesSelection of MelonSandwiches with variety of filling & vegetable sticks
TuesdayA Seclection of non-sugary cereals with bananasTuna & Cheese Fish Cakes with Carrots & Sweetcorn with Parsley / Raspberry BlancmangeCheese StrawsJacket Potato with Cheese & Coleslaw
WednesdayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with WafflesMacaroni Cheese with Mixed Vegetables / Cheesecake with different toppingsMixed FruitChicken Fajitas with wraps
ThursdayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with Raspberry yoghurtQuiche with Baked Beans / Jelly & Ice CreamMango SmoothieMini Picnic with a variety of different foods
FridayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with mixed summer fruitsSausage Pinwheel Pie with New Potatoes & Cabbage / Lemon TartFlap JackPizza with different toppings

Winter Menu Example

Breakfast Snack Lunch PM Snack Tea
MondayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with CrumpetsFish Pie with Peas & Parsley Sauce / Apple & Blackcurrent Crumble with CustardVegetable Sticks & DipsSausage Casserole with Yorkshire Pudding
TuesdayA Seclection of non-sugary cereals with Mixed FruitMeatballs with Pasta & Tomato Sauce / Rice Pudding with JamScones with JamBeans on Toast
WednesdayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with CroissantsSweet & Sour Chicken with Noodles or Rice / Giant Cookies & Ice CreamSelection of MelonJacket Potato with Cheese & Beans
ThursdayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with Bananas & Apples & YoghurtBeef Stew & Dumplings with Broccoli / Flap Jack with CranberriesCheese & CrackersSoup with Crusty Bread
FridayA Selection of non-sugary cereal with Toast & ToppingsVegetable Curry with Naan / Sponge of the week with CustardFruit SaladBurritos with Salad