Monthly childcare menu || plan with me

Hi everyone! Today I’m planning my first monthly
Menu for the center. I go over breakfast, lunch and AM & PM snack.

[@vmarshopper]

I’m a director of a center and have been doing the menu for awhile now. I’m able to do a month menu without repeating any breakfasts, lunches, or afternoon snacks. (Besides fruits and veggies. And we do cereal twice a week for breakfast, alternating between different kinds) Wisconsin licensing may be different, but we can do water with snacks if it has two components (ex: cheese and crackers). Our breakfast must have a fruit and our lunches just have a fruit and vegetable.

[@capturingcharisma2054]

I absolutely love your channel and it gives me so much inspiration and hope for my own childcare center that I am working towards. I am also located in Ohio and completely understand where you're coming from with licensing and such. A few snack suggestion could be pretzels and ranch, (my preschoolers were obsessed) and they also loved graham crackers with peanut butter, given you didn't have any peanut allergies. I can't wait to see your center up and running! I am rooting for you all the way!

[@tonyameadows9042]

Additional ideas: graham crackers, sausage & cheese balls, veggie straws (similar to potato chips) if allowed for the olders, mini biscuits, yeast rolls to warm in the small oven, cinnamon toast, mini muffins, halved grapes or cherry tomatoes, the tidbits are good size for the pineapple, fruit smoothies, hashbrowns, banana, zucchini, or pumpkin bread, plain cake donut, rice krispie treats, butter crackers, soft pretzels warmed in the small oven, Chex Mix, canned mixed veggies are perfectly cut into small sizes, peanut butter comes in the individual dipping cup sizes, oyster saltine crackers with cheese sticks, ABC veggie soup heated in the microwave, grilled cheese can be made in the toaster oven on a cookie sheet with tomato soup in the microwave, boiled eggs from the store or a restaraunt, pot pies in the toaster oven, prebaked crescents from the big box store. Are you allowed a Crock Pot? That would really expand your choices, but they might consider it a type of burner.🤷‍♀️ Use the coffee pot to pour hot water for instant oatmeal. 🤷‍♀️ There are recipes for baking scrambled eggs. Recipes for baking in muffin tins.

[@lisachristian4584]

If no allergies to eggs , Precooked (here in our area our local foodlion carries in refrigerated section ) eggs and toast with fruit jam ?

[@alanawarren4492]

Could you please do a day and life of the daycare video please showing us the daily routine with sleep time and food time daily planning

[@britneymarie8445]

Love your channel! Just some ideas. If you can do peanut butter, ants on a log are always a favorite snack and has a veggie, a fruit and a protein. Parfe with yogert, fruit and granola is a great cold breakfast. Pizza roll ups, a croissant rolled with pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Peanut butter and apple slices are a great snack with protein.

[@lisachristian4584]

Sunflower seed butter , Nutella too 😋

[@Cherice420]

You could make rice in the microwave. You can also do veggie straws, graham crackers, fig bars, muffins

[@laurenh825]

Aldi is way cheaper than Walmart. A loaf of bread is almost a 40 cent difference where I live.

[@lyndseyxo1826]

I just wanted to say I love your channel..I used to work at a childcare center and the kids enjoyed fruit smoothies for a snack, graham crackers,rice cakes with peanut butter/sunflower butter or hummus, as well as cantaloupe, and watermelon for some other fruits.For breakfast they also liked Bagels, and simple toast with jelly. Hope this could help some!

[@heatherblake3581]

You can actually get precooked pasta in the freezer section. Also, sandwiches are a good choice for a meal. Grain and meat!!

[@Rosewaterscent6789]

Wish you all the best!! You work so hard.

[@KeepitSimplebyJennette]

Maybe a crock pot to heat the pasta? Under cook it at home

[@tonyameadows9042]

I was wondering if a Crock Pot would be allowed also.

[@laurenh825]

Or an instant pot! The Salty Marshmallow has a delicious macaroni and cheese recipe and the Skinnyish Dish has a good spaghetti for the instant pot.

[@shelbyw3601]

Meatloaf in muffin pan

[@childcareprovideroklahoma]

Love this! Thanks for the ideas! Love your channel! Snack ideas, My childcare kids love graham crackers, veggie straws, club crackers, and cinnamon toast for snacks. :)

[@arshbhatia312]

Which country food guide you follow and from province you are

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

If we can all return to play maybe we will all get along better 😜

[@lisachristian4584]

I enjoy and learn so much from your experiences and craftiness thanks so much for sharing your gifts and talents 😊.

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

Shortbread, jam, tea, milk

[@nyebetancourt4466]

I'm a little iffy about certain things. My daughter just turned 1, changing from pureed to solids. I worry about the day care menu such as.... Hamburger, etc. Due to choking. How does a 12 month old with only front teeth eat a hamburger or other firm foods?

[@learntoplay22]

For our younger students who are transitioning to solids we give their parents a menu for them to circle what foods they are allowed to eat. When we serve hamburgers we put the bun on the side and all food for our infants are super cut up. We don’t serve hotdogs, grapes, popcorn for they are very well known for choking.

[@brandywilliamson2220]

That juice is going to cost you a fortune. 100% juice is high. I’m on the food program and they only allow it one time a day but honestly my kids drink water just fine. So my morning snack I almost always just do water. You could try a sandwich day for lunch and that would be easy. Can you use an electric skillet for like grilled cheese? Or it has to have the ventilation too? So frustrating. I’m excited to see the center up and going for you!!

[@brandywilliamson2220]

@@learntoplay22 that would be crazy. Pediatricians are really discouraging juice and usda has put limits on it in the food program. For food program we have to have 2 components for snack so grain and fruit, or grain and milk, or meat and grain…etc. juice can be one of them but only one time a day total. However, they currently only cover one snack a day so I always make my morning snack grain and water since they don’t cover it. I used to be able to get 100% juice at aldi for $1.19. It’s $2.50 now! 😩

[@Olivia_Nicole1999]

We used to do for breakfasts cereal on Monday , and Friday something easy as well . Makes it easy for those days And lunches we did on Monday bean and rice with the things you had to have and Friday pb&j cheeto puffs and raisins . But we didn’t have food program either

[@larissahartzler8507]

I worked at a daycare some things that were served were graham crackers, arrowroot cookies, trail mix(made from cherrios, shreddies, goldfish, pretzles and fruit loops) fish sticks. I am in the stages of opening up my own dayhome and I have on my menu cinnamon toast, Muffins, sandwiches, banana bread, Pasta Salad, Waffle Dippers.

[@larissahartzler8507]

@@learntoplay22 It is a toasted waffle cut into strips served and on the side is abit of vanilla yogurt and frozen mixed fruit(like berries and mango). The frozen fruit has ben blended in the blender. Kids can dip their waffle in the yogurt and fruit, but you do give them a spoon so they can finish the fruit and yogurt. It is a change from syrup.

[@tonyameadows9042]

I cut our waffles into strips and let the children dip them too. I like your idea of dipping into the fruit and yogurt. Thanks!😀

[@lvsacademy4420]

Graham crackers and applesauce, apples and peanut butter, yogurt and cheerios

[@alanawarren4492]

Are you allowed to feed them dried fruit like raisins or sultanas or spricots ect

[@alanawarren4492]

I'm a inhome childcare provider in New Zealand but I don't provide food the children come with their own food for during their care day

[@alanawarren4492]

@@learntoplay22 some childcare centre here do provide food and some kindergartens too. But I don't

[@avrasya5807]

Hey I'm assuming Childcare in NZ is the same in Aus? Therefore was asking, do the cooks pay for the food out of their own pocket?

[@alanawarren4492]

@@avrasya5807 they bring their own food my care children

[@wvugirl30b9]

My first daycare I worked at we had chips and salsa for snack

[@alanawarren4492]

Are you home based or a daycare centre

[@alanawarren4492]

@@learntoplay22 awesome

[@janetb463]

Apples & peanut butter . Pretzels & dip .