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School complaining about dd perfectly normal packed lunch.

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Juk3 · 15/10/2020 12:58

The class TA came out to talk to me yesterday (from a distance) to discuss dd unhealthy lunch and the lunch box policy. The dinner lady assigned to dd raised it and the TA did say she wasn't in the class room during lunch so was just passing on info she had been given. She asked me to have a look on the website for the lunch box policy and try to adhere to it if possible, she was perfectly pleasant and I took my telling off but after reading the policy dd's lunch has not broken any rules. I try to make a variety of different lunches as I wouldn't want to eat the same thing every day myself. If I list yesterday's and today's lunch below could you tell me what's so bad about them as I just don't get it. I am wondering if the there has been a mix up with kids not that I will bring this up with school.

Yesterday:- grilled chicken breast with mayo on a mini wrap with lettuce, cucumber and tomato.
Carrot and red pepper sticks with a single serve pot of humous.
Pot of honeydew melon.
A tube yogurt.
A square of homemade shortbread.
A bag of sliced apple (she usually will have this at break).
Carton of juice

Today:- sliced boiled egg sandwich on 50/50 bread with crusts removed.
Pot of sliced red grapes.
2 mini cucumbers and celery sticks with a single serve pot of humous.
Small bag of mini pretzels.
A bag of sliced apple (usually eaten at break)
Carton of juice

She is 8 (9 in dec) in year 4 perfectly normal height and weight.

OP posts:
eaglejulesk · 18/10/2020 06:43

Wow - if someone from a school complained to me about cold pizza in a child's lunch they would be getting a slice rammed down their throat (and yes, I know it was a case of mistaken identity).

Buggersticks · 18/10/2020 16:43

Looks like a perfectly lovely lunch to me. Are they sure it was YOUR child they are referring to? It bugs me that schools 'police' lunchboxes like this, when school dinners provide chocolate pudding and biscuits etc as a dessert?! You're doing nothing wrong xx

Buggersticks · 18/10/2020 16:47

I've done a stint as a lunchtime supervisor myself, we used to have kids that came in every single day with sausage rolls, crisps, cans of pop and chocolate bars, and all manner of stuff containing no nutritional value at all!! I'd have a word with the head perhaps. X

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RLABC · 18/10/2020 17:08

Buggersticks

Looks like a perfectly lovely lunch to me. Are they sure it was YOUR child they are referring to? It bugs me that schools 'police' lunchboxes like this

It bugs me when people don't RTFT or at least just read the OPs posts, especially since MN has made it so easy to do now!

Brockaslass · 18/10/2020 19:06

Could be the juice as some schools have a water only policy

RLABC · 18/10/2020 20:21

🤯🤯🤯🤯

Pelleas · 18/10/2020 20:36

It's getting beyond a joke now.

LunchBoxPolice · 18/10/2020 21:33

Nee naw nee naw
Apologies for the error
As you were

Itstheprinciple · 18/10/2020 21:51

For some reason the OPs update isn't showing in a different colour for me so I missed it. Never mind, I didn't actually mention the jui...

Anyway, this reminds me of a time DD came home fom school in Year 1 and said, 'I ate my lunch today, mummy but I just couldn't manage the sausage roll.' I hadn't actually packed her a sausage roll. I can only assume the children have all unpacked their lunchboxes and it's got all mixed up on the table and she'd assumed it came out of hers. Good job the lunchbox police weren't out that day! DD would have been unfairly in the firing line!

DragonPie · 18/10/2020 22:42

I would want to know what was wrong with cold pizza when I bet the school have got hot pizza on the dinner menu.

gingas · 02/11/2020 21:32

Oh lord...while I do understand that some parents might need a wee bit of support with/info on packing healthy stuff...has it really come to this? Parents being TOLD OFF by schools about packed lunches? Wtf? Maybe I'm being churlish (yep) but I would want to politely remind them that I am the parent.
Christ, as if we're not already mired in 'parent guilt', worry and feelings of inadequacy (I don't speak for all!) what with all the parenting advice/blogs/books/Facebook/Twatter/Pinterest/Instagram/overanalysing etc etc.
As well as constantly being told what we need to do due to Covid (with a lot of double standards thrown in there)...
I'm kind of astonished.

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