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AIBU?

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Quick help - before I go storming into school tomorrow

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Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 00:25

Ds happened to mention tonight that one of his teachers told him that his morning snack, my lovingly home-baked banana tea bread Bero recipe ..................was not a healthy snack

Despite this being featured on the recommended healthy snacks list (fruit breads in general not my cake btw!)

Now ds is a whippet of a thing and tbh could do with a few burgers poking through the school fence at him. Bearing this in mind, and, as I say it is on the recommended list, and it is homebaked and does contain bananas, nuts and raisins etc, and I love baking it for him - bananas are always lying around uneaten in our house until I make it - AIBU to go storming into school tomorrow urgently demanding a full enquiry on this pertinent issue.

May I just add just now rather than committing a heinous drip-feeding offence, that though ds has only just mentioned this it was actually said to him in year 1, I have been blissfully unaware of this and have been lovingly baking aforementioned snack ever since.

Ds is now in year 4 BTW

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Mrsgradgrind · 21/02/2012 07:40

The fact that you are willing to wait until the school is open before bothering to do anything about this shows an uncaring attitude on your behalf - bordering on what frankly is cruel and irresponsible parenting. You should have spent yesterday evening googling the personal addresses of the HT, chair of governors and all the dinner ladies, and stormed into their houses when they were asleep. You really don't care do you?

GavisconJunkie · 21/02/2012 07:43

Bushy's comment is my favourite! I love when people don't get irony.

The worried expression suggestion is my second favourite! Do that!

Bathsheba · 21/02/2012 07:44

We have 2 specific "Healthy Snack" days in the week - the school have clarified that they really just mean "fruit and veg snack days" because tehre is so much grey area as to what parents etc will define (probably correctly) as a healthy snack.

I discovered this when my DD was told her cheese and crackers weren't healthy

porcamiseria · 21/02/2012 09:07

move on!!!!!

and link recipe :-)

NeldaAufwader · 21/02/2012 09:25

OP start a petition at once, this is outrageous!!!!!!!!!!!

NeldaAufwader · 21/02/2012 09:28

I forgot to add that I am discusted by this discusted. Agree with previous poster bloody Jamie Oliver!!!!!!!!!!

MrsBeakman · 21/02/2012 10:21

Don't most schools just want you to send in fruit/veg as a snack?

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Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 10:37

Banana Teabread 12 slices

225 g (8 oz) Be-Ro Self Raising Flour

1 x 1.25 ml (¼ tsp) spoon bicarbonate of soda
pinch salt
75 g (3 oz) butter
175 g (6 oz) caster sugar
2 medium eggs, beaten
450 g (1 lb) bananas weighed with skin, peeled, mashed
100 g (4 oz) walnuts, chopped

1 Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease and line the base of a 1 kg (2 lb.) loaf tin.
2 Mix together flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
3 Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, add the eggs a little at a time alternately with the flour.
4 Stir in the remaining flour, bananas and walnuts and place in prepared tin. Bake for about 1¼ hours.
5 Cool on a wire rack.

Many thanks for all your encouraging comments

I have not yet stormed into school, am considering getting more lovely Mumsnet legal advice first.

For all those asking here's the recipe. It is really foolproof - even for a non-expert, usually slightly disappointing sponge maker like me. I usually add a little of what's hanging around in the cupboards too - raisins, pecans etc.
The crust is scrummy, especially when it just comes out of the oven and I usually slice and freeze to be got out as and when needed.
(Not sent a piece in today )

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Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 10:39

You're right Mrsgradgrind I hang my head in shame at not taking more immediate action.

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fortifiedwithtea · 21/02/2012 10:47

Surprised you haven't been flayed alive for sending your child into school with snack containing nuts. Let it go and carry on as you have been. Talk about ignorance is bliss. The comment was made 3 years ago ffs.

DD2 was grassed up afew weeks ago for having a digestive biscuit, the only day I didn't have any fruit to give her. Sensible teacher took no notice of little 8 year old food fascist, thankfully.

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Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 10:50

at a digestive bisuit fortifiedwithtea !!

We're not a nut-free school but would happily comply if we were.

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simbo · 21/02/2012 10:53

Our school doesn't have a lunchbox policy, but if it did I wouldi just tell them to mind their own business. I give my ds a healthy lunch anyway, but object to being dictated to. Since when did schools have the right to tell us how to bring up our kids? We are forever hearing about the parlous state of education in this country. Maybe if they concentrated on actually teaching children the 3 'r's and left parenting to us things would be better.

Yanbu. Get other parents involved - you never know...

HaveYouTakenLeaveOfYourCervix · 21/02/2012 10:58

Fucking Hell You are being SO unreasonable.

There's fucking SUGAR in that recipe.

Don't you realise that by feeding that to your DC you are setting them up for a life of obsity, acne and potential addiction?

I expect in 5 years tiime you'll be on here moaning and wailing that now he is hooked on something else it was never your faulty and wanting help. And the MN royalty will all swoon around agreeing with you.

Have you no shame woman?

imogengladheart · 21/02/2012 10:58

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

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Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 11:01

Friend of mine was called to school from work (40m away). Turned out when she got there her child had been given crisps and school wanted to 'know why'.

Crikey imogengladheart

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TheIIlusiveShadow · 21/02/2012 11:08

Bake it round a brick, attach a letter of complaint and throw it at the staffroom window. That will learn 'em.

RaspberryLemonPavlova · 21/02/2012 11:09

We are only allowed to send fruit and veg for snacks (and we are nut free). I can see the point of it, except that DS2 goes to gym club and netball club before school twice a week, he is very hungry by lunchtime, especially if they are on second dinners.

frasersmummy · 21/02/2012 11:21

the lunch box police do my head in .. they have no visual of what my kids are eating the rest of the day /week

They are not qualified as dieticians etc...

my son is healthy, sporty and happy his height and weight are in porportion and his teeth are perfect.. untill that changes I will make my own decisions what to feed him

blackeyedsusan · 21/02/2012 12:07

would suggesting that show of hands has a good idea be an incitement to violence? oh well, better not then.

york67 · 21/02/2012 13:39

Only fruit and veg allowed here for snack.

brandrethmupp · 21/02/2012 13:51

Lunch box rules are loony. In dd's school, lunch boxes must be healthy whilst school dinners remain the same cheap slop they ever were minus the twizzlers and chips. Because chips are no longer allowed, they get mash. Is it Mash ..no! It's probably not even Smash or Yeomans just some foul cheap wall paper paste. Chips did at least contain potato.
Also whilst policing what gos in the lunch boxes, school sell mountains of cakes every break time and there's not a day dd doesn't come home with sweets because of someone's birthday.
I say spend more money on children's lunches, educate dinner ladies and cooks that healthy eating is nutritious eating and sit them down for 3 courses of grated carrot, steamed perch and live yoghurt like they do in France.

shagmundfreud · 21/02/2012 14:00

Well - if you don't mind your ds getting a big old sugar rush after eating it.

The recommended intake of sugar for children is three teaspoons a day.

And bananas are very sugary (albeit fruit sugar) so will also have an effect on insulin release.

Yup - your delicious banana bread is a carbohydrate criminal.

But I bet it's lovely though (and far healthier than the packet of Haribo my ds came out of school eating yesterday. (bloody Haribo birthday treats other parents bring in. Don't they have ANY consideration for those of us whose children turn into gurning maniacs after a packet?)

frasersmummy · 21/02/2012 14:17

ds told me yesterday that they got told at assembly AGAIN they are only allowed healthy snacks in their lunch box and crisps are not healthy...

they then served pizza and chips in school dinners

and then ds got praise for having dairlylea dunkers instead of crisps... whats in the dairy lea dunkers.???? oh yeah nachos!!! seriously these people need to find something else to worry about .. like teaching them to write properly ... arrghh.. can you tell I have a bee in my bonnet about this !!

wigglybeezer · 21/02/2012 14:22

By the way I am a Kirkpatrick (maiden name!), would you like me to give the teacher a piece of my mind for you.

Alligatorpie · 21/02/2012 14:46

I had a parent storm into my classroom a few weeks go to tell me the chocolate cake she made her son was healthy and he should be allowed to eat it.
My response, " I didn't tell him he couldn't eat it, i told him to eat his sandwich and vegetables first."

Really, she couldn't have written a note? I am gobsmacked that she needed o enter my classroom during teaching time to have this conversation. Her son came to school and went home on the bus that day! what a nut!

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