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NameChangeAK · 2024-04-22T19:20:09+00:00

I received a message from school today saying my child’s lunch contained a prohibited item and to please review the policy “as there are children with severe allergies and it’s dangerous not to comply” I don’t usually provide packed lunches - DC has school meals, but they did like todays meal options. Ive responded and asked what the item was but waiting for a response, but I’m confused - it’s clearly a nut free school but I can’t see anything else anywhere about other banned foods the packed lunch contained: - ham sandwich (with butter) on brown bread - apple - frube (strawberry flavour) - carton of own brand apple juice - Pepperami - babybel any ideas what could be the problem or Aibu to think they’ve mistaken the ham as peanut butter or something ridiculous?

patchworkpal · 23/04/2024 20:12

IT'S THE FRUBE

Nanaof1 · 23/04/2024 20:11

Emotionalsupportviper · 23/04/2024 07:06

The apple juice.

Gateway beverage to Strongbow Cider.

Oh, THIS was good! I snort-laughed!

Allergictoironing · 23/04/2024 20:08

FlyingPizzaMonkey · 23/04/2024 18:37

I’d be disappointed with anyone offering me 2-3 cubes of cheese.

That may depend on how big the cubes are - I could probably cope with 3 cubes if they were say, 6 inches on each side 😂

Squish12 · 23/04/2024 20:07

RosesAndHellebores · 23/04/2024 07:33

Generic letter because they disapproved of what was in the lunchbox.

Ham - processed
Babybel -processed
Frube - processed
Peppermint- processed
Apple Juice - the small cartons are rarely 100% pressed/squeezed

In the kindest possible way @Hopper123 that was a lunchbox jammed with UPFs.

Better choices would have been:
Chicken, tuna or egg sandwich
Fresh fruit - endless choices and combinations
2/3 cubes of gruyere
Small container with natural Greek Yoghurt and a drizzle of honey
Water instead of juice

Did you not read op? That's not what the letter said whatsoever.

I remember the organic food fad back in the day, this UPF one is no different. It will fade eventually.

Scirocco · 23/04/2024 20:05

Yesterday's packed lunch was falafels, crudites and fruit. None of which was eaten by DC. Who wanted toast instead.

Sometimes children eat rubbish. Sometimes they just aren't that hungry, or don't like the look of something. It's not a big deal really to have the odd meal that isn't nutrient-balanced edible boredom on a plate.

Newuser75 · 23/04/2024 19:59

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 23/04/2024 19:11

This thread is mumsnet at its finest. Catherine Tate would be gripping her two children tightly to her bosom with horror at the cubes of cheese being cheddar instead of Serbia's Zasavica Special Nature Reserve Pule.

Most of us would love our children to be eating crudités dipped in organic hummus but the reality is they want to squeezy yogurt, a sandwich on white bread, some crisps and a chocolate muffin. Literally all kids want that and parents want to put food in the lunchbox that gets eaten. Simple as.

Totally! I send my son with stuff like cut up peppers, cucumber, celery, plain yoghurt. It all comes home untouched and ends up in the bin.

If I send him with breadsticks, oatcakes, some fruit. He will eat it.

He loves a ham sandwich, wouldn't eat tuna, egg, isn't allowed cheese!

Hihosilver123 · 23/04/2024 19:54

RosesAndHellebores · 23/04/2024 07:33

Generic letter because they disapproved of what was in the lunchbox.

Ham - processed
Babybel -processed
Frube - processed
Peppermint- processed
Apple Juice - the small cartons are rarely 100% pressed/squeezed

In the kindest possible way @Hopper123 that was a lunchbox jammed with UPFs.

Better choices would have been:
Chicken, tuna or egg sandwich
Fresh fruit - endless choices and combinations
2/3 cubes of gruyere
Small container with natural Greek Yoghurt and a drizzle of honey
Water instead of juice

🙄
The OPs meal is absolutely fine as a one off. It’s really not going to do them any harm!

3luckystars · 23/04/2024 19:38

They probably sent the note to everyone in the class. It’s not you.

GiBlues · 23/04/2024 19:37

RosesAndHellebores · 23/04/2024 07:33

Generic letter because they disapproved of what was in the lunchbox.

Ham - processed
Babybel -processed
Frube - processed
Peppermint- processed
Apple Juice - the small cartons are rarely 100% pressed/squeezed

In the kindest possible way @Hopper123 that was a lunchbox jammed with UPFs.

Better choices would have been:
Chicken, tuna or egg sandwich
Fresh fruit - endless choices and combinations
2/3 cubes of gruyere
Small container with natural Greek Yoghurt and a drizzle of honey
Water instead of juice

Did you mean to be such a judgey twat, or was that accidental?
did you do a little tinkle laugh after you finished typing.
FFS

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 23/04/2024 19:11

This thread is mumsnet at its finest. Catherine Tate would be gripping her two children tightly to her bosom with horror at the cubes of cheese being cheddar instead of Serbia's Zasavica Special Nature Reserve Pule.

Most of us would love our children to be eating crudités dipped in organic hummus but the reality is they want to squeezy yogurt, a sandwich on white bread, some crisps and a chocolate muffin. Literally all kids want that and parents want to put food in the lunchbox that gets eaten. Simple as.

hazandduck · 23/04/2024 19:03

MississippiAF · 23/04/2024 18:44

Or could be the frube which OP confirmed about 5 pages back

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OP just needs to cancel the cheque already!

MississippiAF · 23/04/2024 18:44

Ginburee · 23/04/2024 18:37

Could be the juice, our schools only allow water.

Or could be the frube which OP confirmed about 5 pages back

DyslexicPoster · 23/04/2024 18:40

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 23/04/2024 17:08

It always makes me laugh when mumsnet has to specify the amount/sizes of food that is acceptable for a lunchbox. It can’t be a full sandwich, one piece of fruit and a drink, has to be:

2 triangles of a tuna sandwich
3 and a quarter cubes of cheese
9 grated slithers of a carrot
a fingernail width of a sprout
a 3mx3m tub of natural yogurt with a barrel full of honey
a thimble of water

Any more food than the above and my dd would be absolutely stuffed.

😂

I hope that's being weighed too 🤣

Well times that by five and my teeny tiny 5'6 son weighing 7 stone 11 would be still ravenous. His bmi is 16 and he ate last night

4 wraps with chicken, onion, peppers, sour cream and salsa. Followed by a McDonald's quarter pounder meal then he made Dahl.
If I gave him that for lunch he start eating his classmates 😆 its not always tiny diet means you can stay tiny. Plus his ultra processed McDonald's was paired up with the Dahl so he's doing everything wrong all at once.

FlyingPizzaMonkey · 23/04/2024 18:37

I’d be disappointed with anyone offering me 2-3 cubes of cheese.

Ginburee · 23/04/2024 18:37

Could be the juice, our schools only allow water.

Flubadubba · 23/04/2024 18:35

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 23/04/2024 17:08

It always makes me laugh when mumsnet has to specify the amount/sizes of food that is acceptable for a lunchbox. It can’t be a full sandwich, one piece of fruit and a drink, has to be:

2 triangles of a tuna sandwich
3 and a quarter cubes of cheese
9 grated slithers of a carrot
a fingernail width of a sprout
a 3mx3m tub of natural yogurt with a barrel full of honey
a thimble of water

Any more food than the above and my dd would be absolutely stuffed.

😂

3mx3m tub of yogurt 🤣🤣🤣

Caerulea · 23/04/2024 18:30

patchworkpal · 23/04/2024 17:00

Maybe you just squeeze them and grueyre pops out.

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Like the Milka cows?

Whatifthehokeycokey · 23/04/2024 18:27

OP, I just had a babybel in your honour. Love them. My toddler stopped eating them months ago. I still buy them. For me.

badskinkid · 23/04/2024 18:15

If gruyère is fine but Babybels are bad- what happens if you give them one of those gruyère Babybels you get in Canada?

TinyYellow · 23/04/2024 18:07

So the school didn’t tell parents not to send in frubes, but when parents send in frubes they are sent shitty messages with no explanation and their child is denied some of their lunch?

Fuck that. It takes a lot for me to think a complaint to school is appropriate but talking away a child’s food without informing all parents that it isn’t allowed is completely unfair.

FallingAngelRisingApe · 23/04/2024 17:43

I have NEVER come across a "top-hat" before. Every day's a school day!

Growlybear83 · 23/04/2024 17:36

MariaVT65 · 23/04/2024 14:56

I think this healthy eating lunchbox bollocks is hilarious and stupid.

I had loads of pepperami and babybell in my (spice girls) lunchbox. Also lots of dairylea lunchables and Sunny D. Yum!

I can assure everyone that in comparison to my own school packed lunches, by far the biggest detriment to my health has been having children.

Schools need to lighten up.

I agree with you. But I don't think most people in real life give a stuff about eating ultra processed foods - it's just on Mumsnet. I can't imagine having a packed lunch without a Peperami, cheese string, or little pork pie when I used to take them into work.

twoshedsjackson · 23/04/2024 17:30

I should emphasise that I do not take food allergies lightly; we once catered for a little chap who was so allergic to eggs that he could not even touch an box which previously contained them. The Art teacher adapted her lessons accordingly, we were all shown how to use an epipen, and we safely and successfully managed residential trips with him.
But a blunt message stating "This packed lunch is dangerous" without explaining which component offends, or why, is not satisfactory.

inamarina · 23/04/2024 17:27

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 23/04/2024 15:23

My dad gave me Shandy in a plastic cup once with my packed lunch. It exploded on the way to school and I smelt like a pub all day. No teachers took any notice though and the one I did tell just laughed. Such was life in the 70's.

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“I smelt like a pub all day” 😁
Reminds me of a former colleague who always used hand sanitiser (pre Covid) and made us all wonder about the strong smell of alcohol whenever he walked past.

Namechange23589 · 23/04/2024 17:25

Mine now in their 20s but we had the lunchbox police on our case too at primary school.
Two things made me laugh about this- firstly when I did a stint in a primary school and saw the huge amount of biscuits and chocolate consumed in the staffroom (the like of which I'd never seen in my regular office), and secondly, as others have said, the completely arbitrary rules they dreamt up (not to do with allergies) which didn't seem to reflect actual nutritional content of food (confirmed at the time by a dietitian friend).
Maybe this was just my DC's school though.