To think banning fried eggs is a step too far?

I don't. Plus, it's for school food and it would be very difficult to poach loads of eggs.

A fried egg is a much healthier option than a fortified breakfast cereal. A single egg yolk contains all essential vitamins (except vit C) and a wide range of minerals and other nutrients.

And they're far more bioavailable than the nutrients in a fortified breakfast cereal.

Kids need calories. Especially children who live in poverty

Oh look the orthorexics have arrived

being brought up by someone with such anxiety around food is damaging to a child

Agree cereal is not better food

I think it's insane that public money is spent on providing school children with puddings after lunch. Who the fuck eats pudding after lunch any way? I don't know anyone in real life and surely it would be better to spend the money on a better quality main and not encourage kids to think this is normal. I mean you could give them a square of dark chocolate or something if absolutely necessary but you're more or less doubling the calorie content with some of the options you hear about and there's next to no nutritional value. Gosh, I sound like a pudding nazi but when funds are short surely this makes absolutely no sense!

Fgs you can’t judge on shopping trollies 🙄. My trolley wouldn’t have fruit and veg as I get that direct via my veg box

cereal is not better. They are a terrible food that turns to sugar in your body, just like all carbs including oats. I wouldn’t even class it as food.

Poached eggs are easy to make on mass and reheat, just have poached or scrambled egg on toast

if they want to reduce the amount but serve it every day then a child could choose a fried egg every day.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12523826/

its known that nutritionally the fried egg has lost its nutritional value, even cereal which to my mind is like eating flavoured cardboard, has had vitamin pumped into them therefore slightly better

Disgraceful. Eggs are packed full of nutrients. The only thing I’d prefer is them not being cooked in seed oils.

Thanks.

No rule for parent-provided food could realistically be introduced that would apply to a child with a diet restricted due to medical reasons.

If you have a medical reason, get it on your child's file in writing.

(And no, this is not packed lunches anyway).

@NameChanger2026 what’s wrong with an egg in decent oil?

What school breakfast club has the resources to use "decent" oil? Frying an egg on a non-stick pan with a squirt of 1-cal olive oil spray is not significantly worse than poaching. However a school breakfast club will be using cheap pans and cheap oil and cooking eggs like that degrades the vitamins to make the egg less nutritious, and also affects the cholesterol making it more damaging. Poached or boiled is much healthier for a school breakfast club and there's nothing stopping parents from giving their kid a fried egg at the weekend.

I think we are very lucky in this country to put so much care into what our young people eat.

so lucky yet so whingy 😂

I'm assuming this doesn't apply to packed lunches with national rule changes? My son has a limited diet due to medical reasons and his packed lunch is just what he will eat which isn't particularly healthy.

It won't achieve much if children are still eating unhealthy foods outside school. The kind of food we got at school 40-50 years ago would have broken every single one of those rules, yet there was no obesity crisis in the UK. I doubt that everyone was eating super-healthy meals at home, either. The culprits today are

1. Takeaway and especially delivered fast food. This wasn't a habit with people in the late 20th century as it is today, and there was nowhere near the number or variety of outlets offering it.
2. Snacking - much less of it. There wasn't the notion that it was normal to eat between meals.
3. 'Energy drinks' and 'coffees' that are actually confections of syrup and whipped cream.

The puddings are sugar free anyway so what’s the problem with having them every day?

Agree, it is all so prescriptive.

What they actually need to do is scrap the restrictions and actually
fund school dinners so the staff can buy good quality ingredients the kids actually want to eat.

All these restrictions do is force kids to take their own food or eat off site.

The standards were so bad at DD’s school if she forgot her packed lunch she would rather have gone hungry.

Is this instead of or on the side of a massive salad?

My D10 loves a Burford Buff fried in good quality olive oil or butter

😂😂😂 thank for giving me my new favourite MN line!

I dont like fried eggs I always poach but proper butter is non negotiable.

Packed lunches which are provided by parents.

Some schools police these, some don't. Speak to your school if you want a policy change.

It looks like they are restricting puddings as well to twice a week.

And what about packed lunches? My DD says that some children just have crisps and chocolate/sweets.

People saying about cereals might be getting a bit carried away- weetabix, corn flakes and Rice Krispies are fortified with vitamins and minerals and low in sugar and salt? The world is gone a bit mad on policing food in this respect- it’s like when people ask about issues and on mn people say dairy is damaging, but it provides nutrients people need to stave off bone related illnesses, we don’t need to cut people’s choices further. Someone out there will say it’s muesli porridge or nothing or they’ll say it’s Greek yoghurt or nothing- but there’s degrees to everything- in reality people aren’t ridiculously unhealthy if they have a strawberry flavoured supermarket brand yoghurt!!