Tops Day Nurseries is putting wild meat on the menu with the introduction of five new meals.

The early years group has partnered with Eat Wild, an organisation which aims to increase the consumption of game meat such as venison, partridge and pheasant.

Children across Tops Day Nurseries‘ 32 sites will be provided with wild meat meals such as venison bolognese twice every three weeks, totalling 3,000 wild meat meals every month.

Pete Ttofis,  Tops Day Nurseries’ catering manager, said game contained less fat than meats such as beef, chicken and pork, and was more sustainable. “Having worked in the hospitality industry for so long, I had always been aware of how delicious wild foods were, especially game,” he said. “The variety and how natural it is always appealed to me as I knew it hadn’t been subjected to courses of intense growth hormones or antibiotic treatment and is left to roam freely eating natural foods within its natural environment.”

Leon Challis-Davies, culinary director at Eat Wild, said: “Wild meat is not only healthier, it’s also more sustainable than what we consume from our current meat-producing sector. It’s much more flavoursome too.”