Quote Originally Posted by MommaL View Post
Do you think that parents are willing to pay more for good food when choosing a daycare? In my area, the cost for daycare is fairly consistent no matter whether a provider serves mostly pre-packaged, not very expensive and easy to make meals (e.g. Kraft dinner, hot dogs, canned soup) or healthy, made from scratch meals. I feel like it would be fair to charge more for better quality ingredients and for the time spent preparing them. However, I've had some people tell me that while parents like the idea of healthy foods, many aren't going to pay more since most complain about the cost of daycare as it is. I'm just curious what others' experiences have been?
Maybe not.

I make all home made food. Real meal not just sandwich or pancakes. We normally have roast chicken, mash and veg or shepherd's pie or salmon /haddock and rice and veg. That sort meal. I get more inquiries and I charge $38 but even those not give any food charge $35 here. I not able push any higher than $38 and food is more than $3 a day. But still some want the food and really impressed but balk at the $38.

We have morning snack, no baked good unless celebration, fruit with all meal, cooked hot lunch, no package food always have a meat, veggies, and starch, yogurt and fruit dessert and afternoon snack. Milk with both snacks, water with lunch.

My daycare grocery bill about $200 a week. I have 5 children. So $40 a day on daycare groceries.