packed lunch police

[AuntiePickleBottom]

my son lunch today, is ham salad brown bread sandwich, yogurt, an apple with a carton of orange juice..he also take a bottle of water to have in the classroom.

due to policy no sweets, choclate and crisps are allowed.

just looked on the menu for school meals and today it is Sausages with
Mashed Potato Green Beans and Gravy with the dessert of Pineapple Up-side
Down Cake with Custard

on aibu to think that ds should be allowed to have a little treat in his packed lunch seeing as the other children has cake and custard

Or seeker, we could argue that the teachers will already know if that child is vulnerable- whether through neglect or less blameful circumstances (on the part of the carer), if their time and that of the TA / dinner lady is not spent searching lunches then there will be more free for proper support?

Bubbly many schools now operate swipe cards where you can ghet a report of what was bought, and you might be surprised- i thought DS1 would be a donut and chips kid but he buys jacket with beans every day and no dessert. I keep trying to tell him that some treats are OK!

What on earth do you put in your child's lunchbox that costs ten pounds a week?

ds2's probably costs that tbh but as he is the only boy not on a Df diet i do take that chance to make it up a bit with nice cheeses and the like.

dd1's packed lunch probably costs around a tenner a week. Last week we went through two punnets of strawberries (£2 each), three punnets of blueberries (£1.50 each), a large tub of natural yoghurt (almost £2), a large tub of philly (almost £3) and a packet of cereal bars (£1) as well as using more bananas and bread than we do on non school weeks, although to be fair I think dd2 was eating/stealing all the berries while no-one was looking and DH probably had a hand in finishing off the philly.

Dd2 is starting packed lunches this week. Dd1 told her she would not be allowed to take one of the cakes she has baked in her packed lunch or they will go in the 'bad bin' and she will have to choose some fruit to swap it with. Dd2 replied "They will not swap my lovely cake for an apple. I won't let them" I would love to see any-one try to take food from dd2 .

heck! I'm glad my DS is a light eater I certainly don't spend £10 a week on his lunches at home.

my son has food issues, but i will not give up.

with the help from HV, dietians and peadatricans he is now starting to eat heathy foods.

how i love seeing him eat, but it has been an up hill battle but i will continue to try and get him to eat heathy

Brooke give your children a decent lunch and they'll be no tears.

HTH.

There'll. It's late.

I know this is a zombie thread but the type of packed lunch in the pictures/post by Brooke is exactly the type of lunchbox where school should be sending a message home about the content, and the reason "packed lunch police" are needed!

They're quite spectacular Sirzy, aren't they.

Quavers
a sausage roll
a Cadbury's Fudge or some Haribo
a Freddo
a tiny sandwich
a carton of apple juice

That is a crap lunch for a young child to have day in, day out. Sorry.

I've read the letter too - it mentions microwave chips. That's bonkers! I don't think year sixes should be doing the dirty work though - ime 10 yos are way too enthusiastic when it comes to enforcing the roolz. Like small traffic wardens on speed.

That photo, whilst not the worst packed lunch I've ever seen is right up there alongside it. How on earth can you put in s o much pure chocolate? Thats awful.

deflecting to teacher eating at McDonalds really isnt helping your cause.

When you join a school, you sign up to their rules. If you don't like their rules, you are free to go and join another school that does let parents shovel chocolate by the multipack down kids throats.

Oh an another thing - school chocolate cake, its vile, doesn't contain sugar and is made of beetroot. So there.

For whatever reason, the report button isn't working for me. I really think Brooke's entire post ought to be deleted, assuming it's her real name and those are her actual children.

Could someone report her post, please?

I have reported her post, because it's about signing a petition, which isn't allowed

This petition is in the Daily Mail. I know you don't like that paper here but here is the article
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2772966/The-packed-lunch-police-aged-just-10-They-check-unhealthy-food-younger-pupils-meals-parents-not-happy.html

Well done BIWI. I also suspect she'd be in for a virtual kicking. Given she's apparently gone to the DM already none of my concerns seem particularly relevant though.

really?

ok so I would not be happy with having my children's lunch inspected by other children. bit really? that much junk... or was it put in in response to the inspections... ?

Dear Brooke, your DC's packed lunches are exactly the reason why some schools police packed lunches. Stop feeding them so much crap. HTH

I'm confused. Your daughter is frightened to eat her lunch because you won't stop putting crap in it and this is the schools fault?

I'm probably missing something here because the solution seems too simple but would it not be easier to swap the crisps and chocolate for fruit, yoghurt and popped corn or some such?

Happy kid. Happy school. No need to sad face in the daily fail.

I had my children in the 80's and their packed lunches would probably raise a few eyebrows these days, but that lunch box is ridiculous. I really hope that it was done for effect and doesn't represent a genuine meal.

I don't agree with getting children to do the inspecting but it is parents like Brooke who make it so schools do need to check what children are being sent with

The line from the Head of the school about it being a student led initiative was quite interesting. Often, a group a students take an interest in something specific (we've had healthy food, nude food, move 30 (doing 30 minutes of physical activity), and various reading challenges) that they want to take on. We let them run it as a whole class, or even whole school initiative. It's a very valuable learning experience for the students involved.

The wording of 'packed lunch police' is off, but that may be something the school is letting the students learn for themselves, but the concept of allowing the older students to talk to younger students about the contents of their lunchbox in a constructive way could actually work well. Trying to encourage students to eat a healthier diet often comes from the students themselves putting pressure on their parents to provide healthier food choices (we have no school dinners here so everyone has a packed lunch).

I pretty much agree with no crisps/sweets rule at home you can feed your child all the crisps and mars bars in the world, nobody is stopping you, just don't put them in lunchbox its not mission impossible.
However -- children policing children is vile. A breeding ground for bullying and snitching. If a school comes up with policies like this, i seriously doubt the quality of teaching in there.

Rofl at "I'm sure this must be violating some sort of human right".

That letter was sent by and probably drafted by year six pupils. It announced that from the following week, certain things (like Quavers and Micro Chips) would no longer be permitted in packed lunches.

Seems reasonable to me - although yes, Lunchbox Police is an unfortunate moniker and the children should have been persuaded to come up with a gentler name.

Still, they'll have learnt an important life lesson, which is that some adults are daft and would rather feed their kids Quavers and Freddos and make them cry, than take the hint and give them a reasonable lunch.