In addition to providing nutritious food options, we also incorporate nutrition education into our daily curriculum. This includes teaching children about the importance of healthy eating and the benefits of different foods. Our staff eat with the children, providing role models for eating habits and for using cutlery, whilst talking to the children about what they are eating and where the foods came from etc. We also involve children in snack preparation, encouraging the children to cut and serve the fruit. We have a veggie patch in the nursery garden, and we all enjoy planting, nurturing, and picking the vegetables and fruit, which we then use for snacks and meals in the nursery, to help them develop a deeper understanding of where their food comes from and how it is grown. Our Pre-school children have visits to the local butchers that provide the meat to the nursery, to watch how sausages are made and to talk about the different meats available and where they come from, the children love this educational visit, especially when they return to eat the delicious sausages at the nursery!