To wonder what is dangerous about my child’s lunch

Well why didn’t they spell out to you what the problem item is? You might have missed something recently about a severe dairy allergy or something, but what’s the point in not telling you- bonkers!

If only she did!

Our kids really need their vitamin D as well.

If kids are allergic (like my own) I make sure I supplement with vitamins or other sources.
If these essential nutrients are being banned because of one allergic child, other kids are suffering.

No wonder rickets is back.

It's becoming the new cancel the cheque 😁

Cancel the frube!

I've lived in Spain since DD was 7 and they don't have any of these policies. Do British people generally have more food intolerances or higher food allergy rates? I don't think this is commonplace in Italy or Portugal either.

As far as I can see, the only allergens are dairy and gluten, and from what I know from working in catering, they're only a problem if the person allergic actually eats them. Customers who had those allergies were perfectly happy to eat other products, that were in the same area as the ones with dairy or gluten.

@OldPerson ....she did and they replied. It was the Frube yoghurt.

I think it's the school you should be asking.

I understand many children now have allergies but my son’s school is the same. We dread making packed lunches on days where the school dinner isn’t suitable. A very fussy eater so we struggle to provide a decent lunch for him because so much is banned because of about 3 children with allergies. At the point now where we are trying to force him to have a school meal because everything we would assume to be fine for a packed lunch isn’t. Drives us round the bend. We have a growing child who does love food when he can eat what he likes but he can’t take it into school. They are still serving a cooks breakfast minus eggs because of a kid in my elder son’s year having an egg allergy. He left the school 2 years ago! Eggs are good and it’s taken us a year to get the youngest to start appreciating them.

Good grief who was appalled, there is nothing wrong with that lunch. Maybe peperami is not the healthiest, but nothing much wrong with the rest, everything in moderation.

They haven't banned dairy, just frubes because they squirt.

I also wonder if it's not just the frubes squirting but if it's partly because how messy they can be generally so make it a nightmare to clean, esp if kids have got it on their hands and transferred the mess everywhere

We had someone in work who was so allergic to strawberries we couldn’t have anything containing strawberry in the building - not even milkshake. Could be something like that.

I can’t understand why they would ban dairy, even with a severe allergy, as schools provide kids with cartons of milk. And they can’t expect all families to provide dairy free alternatives to the staples like cheese and yoghurt in lunches. Can definitely understand why peanuts are banned, but not dairy. I work in a school where kids have alsorts of allergies but only nuts are banned. The staff just have to be vigilant about what else they use in lesson (things like lentils used in sensory play can’t be used in one class due to allergies but aren’t banned from school).

Babybel isnt UPF

it’s just cheese

And very expensive. The chance of finding it in a processed manufactured food is vanishingly small. It is therefore safe to assume that it is almost certainly industrially produced with solvents when included as an ingredient.

It's not even as if its the caramel, because in our school at least, a Rocky or a toffee yoyo would have been allowed (because it can't be bought as a chocolate bar in the chocolate bar aisle.... ffs)

I'm going back 30 years and getting annoyed all over again about this Twix vendetta that schools are running.😡

Ours allows "chocolate covered wafer biscuits" so a full tunnocks caramel wafer or even a four finger KitKat is allowed... but not a 1" fun size twix from a box of celebrations 🤷‍♀️

It is bizarre isn't it. Either have a no chocolate rule or all chocolate is OK or all chocolate coated biscuits are OK. Imagine my kids going from a Kitkat school to a no Kitkat school. How do you explain that to kids? I suppose all you can say is sometimes adults are a bit dim.

Ugh left over reheated chips?? 🤢

This reminds me of when I was at school and our Headteacher banned Kitkats. Her argument was that they were sold in the 'chocolate bar' aisle in shops, so therefore were chocolate bars. Clubs, Trios, penguins, all fine. Kitkat, poison.

My son's friend takes whatever is left over from the family take away - sometimes it's a curry dish, sometimes it's chips, sometimes it's just a giant chunk of cake.

Is that MN enough?🤣

I only mentioned this fact because many do not know this fact. The sweets were being used as an example, as if no one would have any problems with them, other than the sugar content.

Surely they can't ban other kids eating something just because one kid isn't allowed for religious/ethical reasons?

Though the evidence for banning foods to protect allergic kids isn't very good anyway, so maybe they don't care how reasonable they are being.

This is true.....

A risk assessment is required!