Quote Originally Posted by Suzie_Homemaker View Post
I don't not serve left over and I would be really offended too Peacefulbird if a parent suggested I did. All my meals are cooked from scratch. Like you, I use no packaged goods at all. Heck, I even make our own bread and pasta. I would have been really upset if a client even suggested that as I know I cook meals that are a higher quality than most children have from home. Jeez, some parents - just when you think you've heard it all. I'm sorry you had this experience.
Thank you Suzie_Homemaker, but it wasn't my personal experience, I do not remember exactly were but this was a parents experience and description of a homedaycare and published in the written media. And then I went to a workshop the presenter also suggested (tax purposes) that family "dinner left overs" can also be charged and how to do it.

Obviously, many providers were using the term "left overs" to describe what they feed children. And parents assumptions were that basically whatever your family didn't like to eat was served to the daycare children the next day (absolutely far from the true and a misunderstanding).

But the real explanation is that we prepare meal a night before to be warmed and served the next day. Never our families lefts overs.

So, I decided to cook early and basically when parents arrive they can notice the lunch was done earlier before the kids arrive and are cooked or prepared daily. I got used too and it gave also a good reputation to my daycare.