Junk Food?? My feelings are pretty hurt.

[Momof4]

Oh Alpha, that Mom is a moron! Sounds like she is definitely a micromanager but doesn't she have common courtesy? It is true that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that was just rude! I hope you let the comments roll off your back and you have forgotten about it by now. Don't lose any sleep over an ignorant comment.

I think your menu sounds nutritious and well balanced. All of my food is home cooked and I only have one Mom who asks me to email her daily to tell me what I feed her very picky daughter so she can give her different things in the evening and the rest don't care at all about my menu so I stopped making one years ago.

I also serve mostly organically grown fruits & veggies but I draw the line there because the cost of so many other things like meat are very expensive. But I know for a fact I'm serving all the daily nutrition that a few of the children in my care will eat because prepackaged food is served at home.

[momof2cuties]

I've learned there are just people in this world that no matter how good something is, they WILL find a problem. I think meatloaf is a great choice, plus you can sneak in lot's of veggies for those picky eaters. All the kids plus my own at our daycare love it so it's always nice to have that go to meal that all the kids like. If it was me and had such a picky parent but couldn't afford to term. I would advertise to find someone new to fill the spot. If that is not a option, I would remind the parent that all daycare meals are in accordance to the Canadian Food guide and if she has any issues with any of the meals she is more than welcome to pack a lunch

[mustbenuts]

Yup that sounds like a mircomanager to me ... someone who is not happy unless they are criticizing others

I also consider my menu to be healthy and to EXCEED the Canada's Food Guide ... and that said I love meatloaf it is a comfort food and when made from scratch is perfectly 'healthy' option .... I do make sure to use lean ground beef or turkey and make sure to get it from the butcher where it is ground right there on sight where customers can SEE the process so I know it is REAL meat and not that pink slime filler crap that they sell in the tubed meat or supermarket meat that comes 'packaged' from outside the store cause Jamie Oliver did a story on that kind of ground meat and well I could never eat that stuff now

If she watched that show that could be what is making her consider 'meatloaf' as not a healthy choice as she might be assuming that ALL ground meat is made this way ... cause the chemicals they use to create that pink slime filler in cheap ground meat .... EWWW and definitely not healthy!

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...grocery-store/

Canadian meat is not treated in the same way and ammonia is not used in the process.

[Inspired by Reggio]

Canadian meat is not treated in the same way and ammonia is not used in the process.

Admittedly I do not trust where a lot of our food comes from anymore ~ it is so hard to know what is truly 'made in Canada' and therefore truly up to the standards we are suppose to have here because the labeling laws for what that means are so very LAX and misleading ... I know this is suppose to be true that we do not allow the pink slime processing here or that our cows are not allowed to be given growth hormones and other things .... however a lot of our 'processed foods' that contain ground beef are not made in Canada but shipped here in frozen trucks from lord knows where and than they are packaged and labelled in Canada and therefore allowed to bare a label that says 'manufactured in Canada' as long as a certain % of the process takes place here

No Frills has pink 'tubes of ground beef' that are sold both here and in the States sister stores ... so which country 'produces them and which countries 'rules' are overseeing those who do ... kwim?

Just look at the recent Alberta beef scare .... that was meat that was produced in another province than I live it but it affected my meat source here in Ontario not to mention it affected meat from BOTH sides of the border into bordering US states ... just scary and I can see why some parents just start not wanting to 'take a chance' with their food sources!

[mustbenuts]

Oh I totally agree that sourcing your food as close to home as possible is ideal. The ecoli scare was the tip of the iceberg I think.