Half a Pop-Tart for Breakfast?

[Annalee]

I can see what might have happened::
Here I don't serve breakfast.
I feel Kids should start their days with parent time so I just don't offer it. At 9 I serve snack. While I offer different foods than poptarts, a poptarts and milk is considered a food program qualifying snack.
It's two components.
So while I detest poptarts, I can see how school could get by with serving them. They just record them as snacks instead of breakfasts.
Maybe this is their policy and they refer to it as breakfast?
Either way, clarification is needed. I hope
OP updates.

Poptarts are on our food program menu for snack as well.

[Play Care]

If they aren't on the food program, then no one is monitoring to see that they are serving healthy foods OR what they say they are serving, and I would be checking into this more carefully.
I'd ask to see their menu from the past month. At a center that claims to be 'healthy food' I would've assumed there would NEVER be pop-tarts served, including as a substitution.

I agree, I'm pretty skeptical that they are eating what they say that are eating.

And am I the only one who thinks cheerios (or really any cold cereal) is a pretty skimpy breakfast? I only do hot foods (oatmeal, ww pancakes, eggs, etc) because my crew would be starving if I fed them a bowl of cheerios and bananas

[Play Care]

I can see what might have happened::
Here I don't serve breakfast.
I feel Kids should start their days with parent time so I just don't offer it. At 9 I serve snack. While I offer different foods than poptarts, a poptarts and milk is considered a food program qualifying snack.
It's two components.
So while I detest poptarts, I can see how school could get by with serving them. They just record them as snacks instead of breakfasts.
Maybe this is their policy and they refer to it as breakfast?
Either way, clarification is needed. I hope
OP updates.

If you have ever had the pleasure of being at a public school during breakfast, you would die::
They have a hot offering, but the kids all chose the breakfast cereal - Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, etc.
My FP rules state that cereals served have to have less than 6 g of sugar per serving to count. I can't understand why this is okay once they go to school:confused:

[kitykids3]

I serve my kids cheerios and bananas once every three weeks. They seem to do fine with it. Because of added sugar I never get any of the Lucky Charms etc, nothing but cheerios. It's sad the sugar cereals and such are offered at schools.

Like I said in pp, there is NEVER any pop tarts here cuz that is not part of a healthy menu, so whether they give the poptarts for breakfast or snack, it isn't part of healthy meals. At least the kind we're probably thinking. If it's some all natural one made with whole grains and real fruit and no added sugar and such, then that would be considered healthy IMO.

I'm thinking maybe you should see if you can pop up by surprise sometimes to see if they really are feeding them what they put on their menu.

[daycarediva]

I agree, I'm pretty skeptical that they are eating what they say that are eating.

And am I the only one who thinks cheerios (or really any cold cereal) is a pretty skimpy breakfast? I only do hot foods (oatmeal, ww pancakes, eggs, etc) because my crew would be starving if I fed them a bowl of cheerios and bananas

I serve cereal and fruit for breakfast and/or snack. It's a HUGE favorite around here. We eat breakfast at 8:30 and lunch at 11:30, so they don't get too hungry. The rest of the week is a hot breakfast, and I try to include a protein component as well.

If you have ever had the pleasure of being at a public school during breakfast, you would die::
They have a hot offering, but the kids all chose the breakfast cereal - Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, etc.
My FP rules state that cereals served have to have less than 6 g of sugar per serving to count. I can't understand why this is okay once they go to school:confused:

Oh my yes our school lunch is TERRIBLE.

[Febby]

A lot of states have regulations regarding nutrition. OP may want to check her state's regs and see if the center was violating them with that meal.

I understand needing to make substitutions sometimes, but if the center supposedly only serves "healthy" meals, then why would they have a bunch of pop-tarts sitting in their kitchen? Something doesn't sound quite right there.

I'd take a good look at the menu and if it looks healthy, then it might be worth being there at breakfast time whenever possible to see how often those sort of substitutions are made. Or else just find a new daycare, which you may end up choosing to do anyway.

[Febby]

Oh my yes our school lunch is TERRIBLE.

I have a wheat allergy and when I was in school, my school tried to serve me a salad made of lettuce and plain ham for lunch every single day. And breakfast (for me) was either an apple or an orange with some milk. Morning snack (yes, we got snack in school, even in high school) was usually the same as breakfast for me, except that time they handed me a cup with just peanut butter in it.

[Play Care]

I serve cereal and fruit for breakfast and/or snack. It's a HUGE favorite around here. We eat breakfast at 8:30 and lunch at 11:30, so they don't get too hungry. The rest of the week is a hot breakfast, and I try to include a protein component as well.



Oh my yes our school lunch is TERRIBLE.

I must have some big eaters.

My one 4 yo eats breakfast at home, breakfast here, snack at preschool and lunch and snack here...and he eats it all and asks for seconds ::
(He's a perfectly sized, normal healthy boy, but very, very active :: )

[itlw8]

1 not 1/2 poptart does count as a grain but it is like a donut it is considered a sweet and only 1x a week. It does need to be served with a fruit and milk the jam inside is no where near 1/4 cup and it is mostly sugar so not a fruit. that director was trying to pull the wool over your eyes... there is NO other brand that the filling is ALL fruit and no sugar and has 1/4 of a cup of fruit especially in 1/2 a pop tart.

[itlw8]

do not laugh but I just measured it 1/2 poptart has 3/4 teaspoon of fruit /sugar spread.... to even count as 1/2 or a serving it has to be 1/8 cup and served with another fruit.

[Thriftylady]

I agree no way does that count as a serving of fruit. I hate pop tarts. MY DD who is 16 loves them so I put a couple boxes in her stocking every year, but I would never serve them to my daycare kids unless we were having some special snack where I was allowing sugar. I figure if I won't eat it myself, I have no right serving it to the daycare kids.