This was the contents of an 8 year olds lunchbox.

[IAm1]

Nutella sandwich
Bar of dairy milk
Pot of joy
2 custard creams
Cheese string.

Dd asked me if she could have a big chocolate bar in her lunch box. I said no so she declared that Chloe gets all of the above.

I didn't believe her at first but when dd said at the school gates ' my mum doesn't believe you get a whole chocolate bar for lunch'
Chloe nodded and showed me the contents. Her mum stood smiling and nodding and I felt embarrassed.

I didn't really know what to say so just laughed and said goodbye to dd then walked off.

Would you feed your dc that?

Why are posters not believing its Nutella?

Our school is nut free and I used to work in the nursery lunch club a few years ago (they ate their lunches in the main school hall) I had to point out to the school that loads of kids were eating chocolate spread sandwiches and had anyone had a word about Nutella because there was a child with nut allergies in the nursery but the school didn't seem that bothered.

They did start telling people in the newsletter eventually that it was not allowed.
I know a kid who had Nutella sandwiches everyday and her mum poo pooed the allergy risk.

They still ask people to stop bringing them in every so often on the school newsletter so I assume people are still giving them to their kids.

Just because it's not allowed it doesn't mean everyone will listen.

What a shame your wonderfully superior parenting isn't working, and your darling Fenella wants to eat a big chocolate bar for lunch.

I hope another mum posts about your kid's diet when she's old enough to buy her own lunch.

Obviously, if the child has a condition that requires this for some reason then that's different. I'd be worried if the child was refusing point blank to eat - there are children like that who take the meaning of 'fussy eater' to another level.

Isn't ham a form of processed meat?

I feed my kids Nutella. They have it on scotch pancakes with berries. A treat breakfast. They occasionally have it in a Sandwich. But that lunch you've described isn't healthy at all. But if she is a fruit hater it's hard.

My child today has a ham and mayo roll
Strawberries, grapes and raspberries
A fromage frais yoghurt
A soreen bar
An apple for break.

Isn't Nutella what a lot of people refer to as chocolate spread regardless of the brand? Kind of like calling a vacuum a hoover.

I'm so glad nobody worried about other people's lunchboxes when mine were at school. DD had a marmite sandwich every day for 14 years. I'm sure she'd be referred to social services now.

@CleverCatty

You sound like a 90s child like me.

My lunch box was
Cheese and ham sandwich
Penguin, club or wagon wheel
Packet of crisps.
Flask of orange squash lol!

I'm quite jealous i'd never have been allowed that lunch. when i was 12 though my diabetic friend and i used to stop at the shop on the way to school and get shitloads of chocolate.
the massive, family-sized pots of joy are the best thing ever. they are chocolate trifles! without any of the nasty fruit, jelly or booze. you should give the DD a whole one of those for her lunchbox.

[quote Floradoras]@CleverCatty

You sound like a 90s child like me.

My lunch box was
Cheese and ham sandwich
Penguin, club or wagon wheel
Packet of crisps.
Flask of orange squash lol![/quote]
Floradora's - actually no - 70's child! But DBro and I were the few kids back then in our primary school who had packed lunches - can't recall what we did in our separate secondary schools. We had packed lunches and then last year of primary school I had school dinners and my DBro had then too - so his were for 3 years as 2 years younger than me. I think we did have cartons of juice - back then it wasn't seen as the evil it's seen as now.

mmmmm Penguins - we had those too!

Wagon Wheels were those strange, elusive chocolate treats that other kids had or we sometimes bought with our own money when out on school journeys.

@GoodbyePorpoiseSpit

Ah I see the competitive under eating has started: “that’s a big lunch, me and my 6.4ft teen boys eat half a homemade oat cake, a baby bel and maybe some fruit if we are still hungry after all that”.

No, not at all. I just mean my ds doesn’t eat lots at school but it’s not a concern as he eats very well the rest of the time, obviously I don’t let him undereat that would be neglect and just as, if not more, dangerous than overeating.

I'm very surprised that's allowed at school. My child's school has a packed lunch policy and teachers and lunch supervisors check lunch boxes.

@ancientgran

I'm so glad nobody worried about other people's lunchboxes when mine were at school. DD had a marmite sandwich every day for 14 years. I'm sure she'd be referred to social services now.

ancientgran - my DM who is now 79 LOL - when she was a teenager and went to school with a packed lunch - she took a baguette sandwich - not the whole baguette - with marmite - she loved it.

She had the temerity, back then, to have a DM who owned her own business so although her DM did cooking, my DM often got her own or went to the cafe for dinner - only child!

Op says in her comment her dc's school is a nut free school. So, yes, it's a bullshit.

Do you think all parents abide by the rules? Especially with an item like Nutella, where it would be impossible for anyone to tell by looking at it whether it was a chocolate spread with or without nuts in it?

[quote PhryneP]Pot of Joy is such a great name. Chocolate yogurt makes it sound healthier than it actually is though. There's not really any yogurt in it. I think more foods should have names like that. Sprouts could be "spheres of doom"
It's not the worst lunch I've heard of www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/7270891/teacher-worst-packed-lunches-children-beer-red-bull-mcdonalds/amp/[/quote]
Journalism really has gone to pot.

"Chop up some fruit or peal satsuamas and add those instead of sweets"

Albeit not quite the point.

i used to have a sandwich or a roll and a club

so much going on in a lunchbox nowadays.
no wonder they get envious

oh i do like a pork pie

completely missing the point
Where was your social distancing that you got close enough to see the spread in her sandwich

@CleverCatty my DM who is now 79 LOL - when she was a teenager and went to school with a packed lunch - she took a baguette sandwich - not the whole baguette - with marmite - she loved it Thanks, that is encouraging. Maybe I haven't killed her after all. I used to worry about what people would think if they saw it but there was nothing else she'd eat in a sandwich. She sometimes had some green salad on it so that was something. The boredom though, marmite sandwich for lunch or 14 years, I can't get my head round it as I am the other type of person, I hate marmite.

You already know most parents wouldn't feed their dc that for lunch.

What are you hoping for, everyone to jump on slating the other Mum and giving your ego a little massage because you would never feed your kid that and are, therefore, a far superior parent?

Well done on creating a post with an obvious answer, no backstory or understanding of any potential difficulties for no purpose whatsoever because it isn't your situation to deal with

I must admit people are obsessed with lunch boxes these days.

It's got to be a picnic type thing for them to eat at dinner. My DD normally has school dinners but coronavirus means they can't provide them. But when they had school dinners they did

Sausage and mash
Pizza days
Lincolnshire burgers
Jacket potatoes
Custard and pudding
Cookies
Fruit salad.
Jelly
Ice lollies
Curry's etc.

It was a massive variety and certainly not all healthy. But I don't mind abit of everything personally.

As a mother of a child with severe food neophobia; mind your own effing business and be thankful your child eats different foods.
Stop thinking you are high and mighty and focus on you and your own. Interfering busy bodies, like yourself have caused me nothing but additional stress and anxiety over the years. Thankfully I have now learnt to ignore judgemental arseholes (sorry for swearing) like yourself.

Only if they are poorly and they skipped some meals and only thing they will eat is choc, or they are snacking before dinner on Christmas Day! That is lots of choc for a normal lunch!

No. Marmite is excellent, B vitamins. I fancy one right now.

I used to have fish paste sandwiches, a hard boiled egg and an orange.

Mine had two cheese and pickle sandwiches, crisps, penguin and an apple.
A friend of his had peanut butter sandwiches every day, he didn't share them so what was the problem?

There was no objection to a carton of juice. Lots of people have a glass of fruit juice at breakfast anyway, why not? It's part of your five a day.

Nobody ever looked in lunch boxes, kids were not fat, they do plenty of running around and ride bikes even nowadays with screens (and mine liked his computer).

I hate the lunch box police idea.

Poor kid