Jam sandwiches at wraparound care

It's probably not convenience but necessitated by budgetary restraints.

And your kid won't have lifelong health issues because they eat a few jam sandwiches after school.

I agree they should and I’d love to see some of the prices for healthy options come down to be honest, and whilst the odd jam sandwich isn’t the end of the world it would be nice if parents once in a while had the option to provide the something quick and easy rather than knowing the school has already done that.

Eh? I’ve not discussed whether the hours are any good? I’ve genuinely got no idea if you intended that reply for me or not. I’m also unsure where I mentioned anybodies pension - what on earth has that got to do with a jam sandwich!?
OP made a stuck up comment about the parenting/food given by parents of British parents and, understandably, got some backs up. Do you get a jam sandwich for all of your big reaches?

Whatever about the contradiction, I wouldn't go to war over that. I wouldn't want dd eating jam sandwiches either (her teeth!😬) so I'd send in what I would like her to eat or ask that her sandwich not be jam. Simple.

It’s a smear of fruit and sugar, won’t do any harm at all. I’d make sure my dc was still getting a hot meal at home though. A sandwich isn’t tea

After school care may be optional but it's an important part of enabling women to work - and yes, it is usually women who have to deal with a lack of ASC.

Eating jam sandwiches four times a week is surely better than processed ham which has been proven to cause colon cancer. In my mind if she’s choosing jam over ham then that is the healthy choice, at least you can balance out the sugar with a healthy, savoury tea and not giving many sugary treats the rest of the week. Much harder to balance out the long term effects of eating processed meat!

Thank you for your input.

After school care is a) optional and b) not part of the school day.

And yes, of course parents should prepare healthy options for their children, that's a basic part of being a parent. Regardless of how "important" their jobs are.

Stop being silly now.

Quite.

If you’re this spiteful at school, ditto.

I work two days a week. The after school provision at my sons school is not well used and only goes on until 4 so that’s all I can manage.

I have no money and my pension is affected.

Parents shouldn’t be in a position where they wish to use childcare (of any description, nursery, childminder, wraparound) but feel they can’t as the quality of care is poor.

It should be a given.

But there are important jobs in the country that need to be done to keep the country moving. The people that do those jobs need help with wrap around care and it’s annoying they are told they must spend more time and money on preparing healthy options for their kids rather than convenient options, when the school choose that convenience for themselves.

I want a jam sandwich now.

I wouldn’t worry about a jam sandwich, it’ll be a very thin layer of jam as well, so not really going to amount to much over a week. And as for the cake @JBeanGarden have you ever tried the cake on school dinners these days? They’re low fat and low sugar, and taste nothing like cake.

The ones I checked had xylitol or sorbitol in them.

The truth about sweeteners - NHS

In my school a sandwich is 1/3 of a whole sandwich. A sandwich finger. Cake and biscuits are made on site, low sugar and not very nice. A lot of the kids actively refuse them, even when there's nothing else available. They are frequently abandoned after a small bite (I'm in the dinner hall).

The sugar would therefore be in around 1/3 of a teaspoon of jam and fruit sugars in the cake and fruit. While I'm sure the bread isn't great, over all I'd have no issue with this. Find out what is actually being given. I strongly doubt it's a large sandwich oozing jam and a slice of delicious cake.

One of the best flounces I’ve seen in a while. Why bother asking a forum, of mainly, British plebs then? How’s closing the thread going for you OP? I dread to think what the school has to deal with from you.

I want some jam now.

There is a difference though between a state funded school day with all the rules and regulations that involves, and an optional after school club.

At the end of the day, no parent is forced to use the after school club.

I used an after school nanny for a while and it must have worked out 2 or 3 times the ASC charge.

If they were to offer different food, it would likely be more expensive. They probably can only afford to offer the basic stuff such as jam sandwiches.

Can't you just pack her a snack?

I agree it would be lovely if parents had time to parent but the sad reality is a lot of them don’t because of the jobs they happen to do.

They should not have to make up for the school’s convenience and as another poster has said, it would be nice if they could offer sweet treats to their kids without knowing that the school has already fed them their sweet treats for the day.

The biggest problem here though is that the school does not allow parents the convenience of cheap easy lunches but expect parents to be ok with the school enjoying that convenience instead!

Hi OP,I haven’t read all the responses, but have you checked the School Food Standards guidance? it’s available online. I think you are right to continue to challenge them on this. Perhaps if your child only attended after school care once a week it wouldn’t be such an issue, but filling up with jam sandwiches four days out of seven is not good.

It’s really rude to speak about someone like this and the eye roll is just pure mean girl.

She can elicit not to come back to it, which is obviously what she meant.

It’s a jam sandwich not heroin