Nursery World - Nursery Food: Healthy puddings

Afters remain a staple of the nursery menu, but how can you ensure
they offer nutritional value? Here, nurseries suggest recipes that swap
sugar for more healthy alternatives without compromising on taste.

New recommendations on reducing children's intake of free sugars mean that early years settings need to look again at the food they are providing (see feature, pages 8-9).

However, puddings are still an essential element of nursery menus, and they can be a healthy choice too, as these recipes show.

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Jo Strover, area manager, Tootsies Private Day Nursery, Surrey

We ensure all our meals are prepared from scratch; no processed or pre-prepared foods are used. By doing this we know what is going into the children's meals and ensure that no additional sugars are added to the food. An example would be a tomato pasta sauce - by making our own from scratch, it is only sweetened by the vegetables and not by adding sugars as many pre-prepared sauces do.

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