Bright Eyes Daycare & Early Learning Center nutrition starts with a well balanced meal and snack plan that encourages healthy eating at a young age.

During both lunch and snack, children experience proper table manners and mealtime etiquette.  All ages, except for infants, eat in our cafeteria. Teachers enjoy the silly conversations and topics the kiddos share during this time.

After years of made-from-scratch healthy lunches, we could not help but still notice the aggressively changing needs in diets, allergies, and preferences for an even more progressive and inclusive approach for healthier nutritional lifestyles.  In recognition of this shift, we began serving exclusively vegetarian lunches.

Meat-free lunch means addressing the need for protein. For us, this means serving milk every day, more days with yogurt, and more main dishes with; eggs, lentils, beans, quinoa, oats, cheese, and Beyond Meat™, etc.  Other sources of protein are consumed through our fresh fruit & vegetable sides, in addition to the two daily snacks.

We believe our meals encourage children to expand their palette preferences and encouraging them to become a more adventurous eater! The bean burgers are a HUGE hit!

Along with an even more inclusive culinary perspective, Bright Eyes has partnered with Dialed In Nutrition, for professionally preparing our lunches.  In Sioux Falls, Dialed In Nutrition has a store located near 69th & Western, so you too can have custom prepared meals!  Stop in to experience their culinary point of view.

Bright Eyes serves prepackaged snacks that are carefully selected with the goal of eliminating (or at the very least greatly minimizing) the amount of corn syrup, food dyes and food additives. We believe that the lesser the amount of ingredients that goes into a snack, the better!

While shopping for snacks, we like to ask ourselves, “would this be more appropriate served as a dessert?” If the answer is “yes”, then we leave it on the store shelf.

Another way Bright Eyes supports a more sustainable and healthy future for our children is by serving Burbach's Countryside Dairy milk (1% and whole for the mobiles).

Burbach’s milk comes from Hartington, NE.  Burbach’s milk does not get hauled in tankers and does not wait several days to be bottled, but instead their milk is delivered to Bright Eyes often within a day after being produced. The glass bottles their milk comes in helps preserve the yummy and naturally fresh taste. Unlike plastic, glass imparts no foreign flavor or odors.  The bottles are exchanged every week for recycling.

Burbach’s milk is also produced without the use of artificial hormones. The children can taste the difference and they LOVE it! Click HERE for a list of locations proudly supporting Burbach's products.