Drinks
Drinks will be offered to you throughout the day:
- Milk
- Water
- Fruit Juice
- Squash
- Soya Milk
All these drink options are vegetarian. Non-dairy milk options are available.
Snacks
- Fresh Fruit
- Fruit Pot
- Biscuits
- Fromage Frais
- Yoghurt
- Cheese and Crackers
- Cake Slice
All these snack options are vegetarian
Breakfast menu
Fruit juices
- Orange
- Apple
All these juices are vegetarian and made without milk
Cereals
With regular or soya milk:
- Cornflakes
- Branflakes
- Rice Krispies
- Weetabix (easy chew)
- Ready Brek (easy chew)
- Porridge (easy chew)
All these cereal options are vegetarian
Bread, toast or pancakes
With butter or sunflower spread and a selection of jams and marmalade:
- White Bread (made without milk)
- Wholemeal Bread (made without milk)
All options are vegetarian
Fromage Frais
- Fruity Fromage Frais – choose from different flavours (vegetarian)
- Thick and creamy yoghurt (vegetarian)
Fruit
- Fresh Fruit (vegetarian, made without milk)
Lunch and evening meal
Lighter meal
Soup
- Soup of the day with a bread roll
Sandwiches
- Tuna Mayonnaise
- Ham (made without milk)
- Egg Mayonnaise (vegetarian)
- Cheese (vegetarian)
Jacket Potato
- With a selection of fillings, please ask your ward host
Omelette
- Plain (vegetarian)
- Cheese (vegetarian)
Create your own meal
To make a balanced meal please choose an item from option 1, 2 and 3:
Option 1
- Tomato and basil pasta (vegetarian, vegan, made without milk)
Vegetable burger in a bun (vegetarian, vegan, made without milk)
Vegetable nuggets (Vegetarian, vegan, made without milk)
Quorn dog (vegetarian, vegan, made without milk)
Cheese and onion pie (high energy, vegetarian)
Cheese and tomato pizza (vegetarian)
Macaroni cheese (high energy, vegetarian, vegan)
Tuna pasta bake
Fishcakes
Fish fingers (made without milk)
Roast chicken breast in gravy (made without milk)
Chicken goujons
Chicken curry (made without milk)
Chicken and vegetable pie (high energy)
Sausages (made without milk)
Hot dog
Cottage pie
Beef bolognaise with pasta (made without milk)
Beef or chicken burger in a bun (high energy)
Option 2
- Garlic bread
- Plain pasta (made without milk)
- Boiled rice (made without milk)
- Chips (made without milk)
- Potato wedges (made without milk)
- Boiled potatoes (made without milk)
- Mashed potato
All these options are vegetarian.
Option 3
- Beans (made without milk)
- Spaghetti (made without milk)
- Carrot batons and cucumber sticks (made without milk)
- Side salad (made without milk)
- Coleslaw
- Mixed vegetables (made without milk)
- Cauliflower (made without milk)
- Carrots (made without milk)
- Peas (made without milk)
- Mashed root vegetables (made without milk)
All these options are vegetarian.
Desserts
Hot desserts
- Hot pudding of the day (high energy)
- Rice pudding
- Stewed apple and custard
- Custard
All these options are vegetarian
Cold desserts
- Chocolate brownie (high energy, vegetarian)
- Strawberry trifle (vegetarian)
- Chocolate dessert pot (vegetarian)
- Fromage frais (vegetarian)
- thick and creamy yoghurt (vegetarian)
- Tinned fruit in juice (vegetarian)
- Fresh fruit (vegetarian)
- Fruit jelly
- Ice cream (vegetarian)
Information for parents and carers
Meal times
- Breakfast: 7am to 8.30am (items available until 9.30am)
- Lunch: 12noon to 1pm
- Evening meal: 5pm to 6pm
Drinks and snacks schedule
- Breakfast
- Mid morning snack
- Lunch
- Mid afternoon snack
- Evening meal
- Supper
Allergy information
If your child has a food allergy or intolerance, please advise the nurse on admission and always inform your ward catering team before you place their meal order.
We have an Allergy Aware Menu which contains dishes prepared free from: cereals containing gluten, celery, egg, fish, milk (and other dairy products), molluscs, mustard, nuts, peanuts, crustaceans, lupins, soya, sulphites and sesame.