To wonder what is dangerous about my child’s lunch

You could take someone’s eye out with a pepperami.

:nod’s wisely:

No, if you would RTFT or even just OP's posts, you'll see that it's just frubes that are banned because they're so much messier than other yogurts and so present an extra risk to a particular child with a severe milk allergy. Other dairy products are fine. It's a pretty sensible policy terribly communicated.

Exactly! The OP packed a perfectly fine lunch for her child and is left wondering what she has done wrong.

Lets keep an eye on (and help) the kids that are going home to an empty fridge.

This makes me angry!

I've seen kids come into school with half a bar of chocolate, cold, hard pizza and chips from the day before and even nothing - right, parents forgot or told the child to do it themselves.

That is what we should be keeping an eye on.

Not a fully packed lunch where probably 99% of the class have the same thing.

School needs to stop all this controlling behaviour and stick to proper safeguarding.

So no children in the school can bring in cheese, yoghurts, milk or anything dairy in packed lunches? Is that correct? Thats ridiculous if thats the case.

The day school judges my lunchbox is the day i’ll go in and make a judgement on the teachers weight/fitness/health…fair right? Luckily, we have a great school and the only thing banned is peanuts.

Everything listed is fine in moderation and what 99% of kids will have in their lunchbox. Nothing is bad if you live an active, balanced lifestyle. I pity poor kids where a parent worries about a babybel and an apple juice.

It was the frube. Dairy allergy.

I would have phoned the school as there is nothing there we wouldn’t send in our child’s packed lunch. I’d say all of those items will be in alot of packed lunches every day so the school will have a huge problem if any are banned. I agree with other comments that possibly has been sent to the wrong parent?

There are children, literally starving all over the world! some schools need to get a grip! My dd is Nd, bordering on eating disorder, I will pack her whatever I can get her to eat that is ok to be left in a lunchbox (no fridge for 5 hours)
Luckily our school is reasonably laid back, other than giving advice and obviously adhering to allergies.

That's disgusting and cruel.

I'm actually quite relieved to be working in secondary now as we have less lunchbox warriors. 😂

I always make sure my youngest (still primary) has a piece of fruit though even though I know he won't eat it. His dad said the other day, you know he won't eat it'.
I said 'I know, but people are watching. Lunchboxes have status!'

I stopped complying with school packed lunch rules when they sent my son home with a lunch box full of puke. Yes, my son puked at lunch, aged 5, and I received a call from the school to pick him up.
Picked him up, along with zipped lunch bag, which I opened next day full of puke.

You didn't put a knife in there did you?!

I've worked in schools for years and I'm a bit baffled.
My kids have allergies (nuts, fish, egg etc) so I understand the nut allergy thing but if someone had a severe dairy allergy, that makes it very difficult for parents preparing lunches.

I've never seen a member of staff go into a child's lunchbox either and look at which kind of bread they have (unless they are very young perhaps).

I think either they've got the wrong person or you need to have a word.
'prohibited' is quite a strong word for a packed lunch!

Good point :)

This is glorious

I thought all MN children took leftovers in a food flask?

@Helengreggregson Frubes (and the other brands) are quite hard for small children to open. Imagine "Miss can you open my yoghurt please" repeated by dozens and dozens of little voices 😂
Petit Filous style yogurts are much easier for small children to open.
(also see Capri Sun drinks vs regular carton drinks 😂)

My DH is now threatening to teach DC this.

My teacher friends school allegedly banned petit filous because all the kids started calling it Titty Filous and they couldn’t get them to stop.

The hilarity continues. My top ones so far:

The row over Ultra processed British cows versus those impeccable organic French cows,
upf breast milk
the one who patronised op suggesting 3 cubes of gruyere and Greek yoghurt with a drizzle of honey,
the one that said: it must be apple juice.. The gateway beverage to strongbow cider 🤣

My child’s nursery has banned frubes. I’m not quite sure why, petit filous in pots aren’t banned and are just as unhealthy and have just as much potential for mess. Juice is also banned. Ridiculous that it wasn’t specified which item it was.

PMSL 🤣

@Washingupdone "forbidden" doesn't mean it's dangerous though 😂

Get the ones that aren't

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A packet of haribo is 100 times better than a packet of nuts if they are talking about allergies/dangerous even though the latter is much healthier

Some Haribo and other sweets are made of pork fat, could be forbidden to some children.

Lol!