We have a little boy whose mother, on registering him at the setting, explained that he would eat only honey sandwiches, bananas and ice cream, and asked us to give him a honey sandwich for lunch and dinner.
As a nursery that has a Gold Award for Healthy Eating, this is not something that we wanted to do! I explained that we understood that she gave her child this food to ensure that he was eating something, but that we would want to encourage him to eat the same as everyone else.
Anxious at this, the mother said she would collect her son early so that she could give him his honey sandwiches at home.
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