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To complain to the Head?

62 replies

MarioandLuigi · 15/06/2011 15:03

DS goes to a breakfast club (started last week) on Tuesday and Thursday mornings run by the school. Yesterday he came home and said that he had had Krave and juice for breakfast.

I went to see the manager who runs the club this morning to confirm that this is true, and she said that it was, but its up to the children to choose and there are other options - toast, fruit, weetabix and cornflakes etc.

Now while I understand that its the child choice, I dont think children in a primary school can make that kind of informed choice.

The school has a healthy eating mark and they are very strict about what you have in your lunchbox, but they let this slide?

OP posts:
JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 15/06/2011 16:12

What's wrong with chocolate cereal Confused

All cereals are crap - at least the chocolate ones don't taste of sawdust.

Mind, I'm surprised they have Krave - they're expensive. DS has to make do with Chocolatey Squares.

wudu · 15/06/2011 16:13

At 10 he is old enough to make his own informed choices regarding what he eats for breakfast.

Let the mothers of the 4 yo's worry about them.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 15/06/2011 16:14

x-post with the OP there.

CurrySpice · 15/06/2011 16:14

You never know which way MN is going to go with food do you? :o

One day it will be "That meal lacks vitamin xyz and requires a protein to make it balanced" and plenty of bosom hoiking

Another day it's "Relax - it's only a bowl of cereal"

:o

cinnamontoast · 15/06/2011 16:20

Modern cereal is the devil's work. A perfectly healthy ingredient has been completely bastardised by big food companies, who remove all the stuff that's good for you (selling it off at a profit elsewhere) and cram it full of crap instead. I'm not a food nazi in general but I fail to see why a bowl of salt- and sugar-laden junk is considered a suitable breakfast for children.

The point is, if the school has a healthy eating policy, ALL the food served at breakfast club should meet certain nutritional guidelines.

BurningBridges · 15/06/2011 16:56

Well, you could take him round to the Head's house for a fry up two days a week? Seriously, I give my children Krave sometimes. Obviously I have to name change now, but I think its ok once in a while. I'd ask the staff at the breakfast club how come they are offering that, but I wouldn't talk to the Head - unless you do want to take him up on the fry up at his place ....

brass · 15/06/2011 16:58

He should be able to choose something else for himself at 10.

When my DC went to breakfast club they had similar choices one of which was cocopops. They were much younger than 10! I advised them I wasn't keen on cocopops every day for obvious reasons.

Their choices varied - croissants, toast, fruit, yoghurt and yes cocopops. It's possible to teach children these things without being up in arms and reeling letters off to all and sundry. What do you expect supermarkets to do put all crap cereal in plain brown paper boxes on the top shelf? They need to learn to avoid these things on their own merit rather than being babied.

mnistooaddictive · 15/06/2011 17:02

Yanbu krave is vile. Asda's own brand which was actually around first is much much nicer!

JamieAgain · 15/06/2011 17:04

I'm surprised they have Krave. It's v expensive and not a very good example to set as far as accurate spelling is concerned

veritythebrave · 15/06/2011 17:06

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squeakytoy · 15/06/2011 17:16

Banning foods just leads to children wanting them all the more. Having the "bad" stuff two mornings a week will not do him any long lasting harm whatsoever.

Journey · 15/06/2011 17:18

So what? Get a grip.

If you don't like it feed him yourself.

LineRunner · 15/06/2011 17:25

I hope they're supplying a laryngeal straw with that fruit juice.

TheFlyingOnion · 15/06/2011 17:28

get a grip, control freak.

Its a bowl of cereal. Unless he has allergies, so what?

shineoncrazydiam0nd · 15/06/2011 17:30

Yes, complain to the Head.

Give him/her a good laugh.

GetOrf · 15/06/2011 17:32

I seriously wouldn;t give a flying fig about this.

It is a bowl of breakfast cereal for a ten year old.

Mind you, I am a person who went into a decline when they banned Lucky Charms. Remember them? Basically a bowl of sweets for breakfast with the turbo power of blue pop/irn bru. They sent the kids loopy.

I miss Lucky Charms

cjbartlett · 15/06/2011 17:33

What's wrong with chocolate cereal

and this is why we've got an obesity crisis

GypsyMoth · 15/06/2011 17:34

its one third sugar?? really.....can anyone confirm that?

TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 15/06/2011 17:34

So he has one bowl of this stuff twice a week?

It won't hurt him.

Perhaps say to him that he must choose something else one of the days if you're concerned that two bowls a week is too unhealthy? So maybe ask him to have toast on the other day.

cjbartlett · 15/06/2011 17:35

but some kids will have to go to breakfast club every day
consideirng they won't allow chocolate and crisps in lunch boxes it smacks of one rule for them and one rule for us

TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 15/06/2011 17:38

just googled it

30g bowl is

135 calories
9g sugar
5g fat (2g saturated)
0.4g salt

9g sugar = 10% of daily for adult. no idea how that all translates for a child.

It's not the healthiest choice, certainly. But once in a while isn't the end of the world, as part of a healthier diet with lots of fruit and veg. plus an active lifestyle.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 15/06/2011 17:38

Krave ingredients

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 15/06/2011 17:40

x-post

Yup, that's a lot of sugar.

I suppose it depends on what the rest of a child's diet is like though.

Neither ds nor I are obese btw.

TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 15/06/2011 17:41

Just been googling trying to find out how much sugar is recommended as the 'maximum' for a child.

Getting some results that suggest 12g.

If that's true, then 9g is quite a lot!

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 15/06/2011 17:43

Thing is pretty much all cereals are shite.

cjbartlett why are chocolate ones particularly bad, then?