Nursery World - Special Focus: Beating the cost of living crisis to serve healthy food

Amid a cost-of-living crisis and rising health concerns, how are nurseries ensuring that their children are eating healthy, nutritious meals? Karen Hart finds out

Just as families are finding that the cost-of-living crisis is impacting their ability to make healthy food choices, nurseries equally are feeling the pinch.

As a result, the interest in organic food, for example, has declined somewhat and many nurseries are turning to tinned and frozen options to keep prices down. The advice is that frozen vegetables and tinned oily fish such as sardines, are good alternatives to fresh fruit, vegetables and fish (and meat), which has gone up in price considerably in recent months.

Less expensive produce can in fact be better, when the right choices are made, and in the face of today’s budgetary restraints, food education and preparation skills are increasingly becoming a priority.

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