Our Services
We provide a wide range of services for nurseries, schools and clubs.
We offer hot lunches, cold teas, pureed food for babies, fresh fruit and vegetable boxes and even a hot tea service, dependent on your location for children aged from 6 months to 5 years old. We cater for a vast range of dietary, allergen and cultural meals as well.
Using fresh and locally sourced ingredients, our 3-week rolling menu doesn’t just offer a great variety of food but also meets the “Healthy Choice Award” guidelines that have been set out to the highest standard. As a result, our menu plan has been awarded the highest Gold accreditation by being fully compliant with the recommended GDA’s and dietary requirements for children of nursery and school age.
Our menus are designed in-house by a team of qualified chefs and then independently evaluated to ensure they meet the daily nutritional guidelines. Therefore, each child that receives a Little Tums meal is being provided a healthy, balanced and nutritious meal.
Hot lunch
Our homemade hot lunches are all prepared on the day they are to be served, this allows us to ensure that each meal we prepare only contains ingredients that are fresh and tasty ensuring quality and consistency throughout our meals.
All our hot food is cooked to a minimum of 85 degrees centigrade and once this minimum temperature is reached, we pack your meals into gastronorm containers, which are then sealed and labelled with the nursery name and allergen information. These are then packaged into hot holding thermo boxes which ensure your meals remain hot through transportation and arrive to you hot and ready to serve.
Cold teas
Often delivered alongside our hot lunches, cold teas are designed to provide the children with their evening snack meal of the day whilst in your settings care and are large enough to be considered the children’s last meal of the day.
Our 3-week menu provides a variety of teas taking cultural influences from around the world and are a fantastic way of allowing children to try new tastes and textures whilst remaining recognisable meal choices, to ensure they are engaged with their teas. Each component is packaged separately and when plated provides plenty of colour and textures, allowing children to explore their meals and continue to establish a positive relationship with them.
Fresh fruit and vegetable boxes
Our fruit and vegetable boxes are provided based on your requirements.
Starting at a minimum order of 10 portions we are able to provide the essential fruits and vegetables that you may require to prepare your own daily snakes or to further compliment your meals.
Hot teas
Dependant on your location we are able to provide a second daily delivery of hot meals.
Just like our hot lunches they are prepared fresh on the day and are designed to be the children’s last hot meal of the day. Traditionally served around supper time and delivered by 15:30 they offer the assurance that children, whilst attending your setting, can be picked up by parents or carers knowing that their child has received a substantial supper so they can go home full, without the pressures of having to provide their child with another meal.
Dietary, allergen and cultural meals
These meals make up a large percentage of the meals we prepare daily. Much care is taken into ensuring that they are prepared in line with the children’s requirements and the dietary chefs take great pride in ensuring that their meals are just as nutritionally balanced and tasty and therefore enjoyed.
We feel that each child regardless of their dietary, allergen of cultural needs should have access to meals that are as similar as possible to our main menu.
Staff handling these meals have all passed a Food Standard Agency’s Food Allergy & Intolerance training course.
Baby purees
We offer a stage 1 and stage 2 weaning meal service.
Each setting will order the appropriate stage weaning meal based of your child’s weaning development.
Our stage one meals consist of a variety of fresh vegetables pureed to a smooth texture and delivered chilled, they can be served chilled or, should the setting wish, they can be reheated following food safety guidelines.
Our stage 2 meals consist of the main meal of the day, pureed to leave small lumps and textures. These are delivered hot and ready to serve.
Little Tums staff are always on hand to provide further information on meal ingredients on request.
Chilled Hot Teas
These are for customers who wish to provide their children with a second hot meal of the day but are outside of our delivery radius for a second daily delivery.
We are able to provide a second meal which has been prepared, cooked and chilled down ready for you to reheat onsite.
Taster bookings
To allow you to sample our delicious meals we are happy to arrange a selection of items to be delivered to your setting to gain a better understanding of what we offer and how our daily routines could fit yours. This is a fantastic way to experience first hand our tasty meals and allow you to make an informed decision on your meal provision.
Please complete our online information form to book your free taster.