We are a sessional preschool, so you may be different if full daycare.
We have scaled our snack right back to basics. We literlally just have fruit and breasticks, milk or water each day.
Initially we cut down due to a child with servere allergies- then covid struck, prices started to rise- so to be honest with just stuck with simple. Children do help but with such a limited snack now there's not really much they can do other than hlep themselves- get there own cups and plates, pour drinks etc.
There seems to be so many bugs going around I dont really want the children coughing and splutterring during the very basic food prep🤢