To think "fuck off Eco lunch box"?

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I mean the standard lunch box food police is bad enough. Not allowed xyz in pack up.

But for the next two weeks we have to have no packaging waste in the lunch box either. So nothing in individual wrappers, sandwich bags, etc. Ater the two weeks experiment is up apparently it's fine to using as many cheap plastic bags, bits of cling film as you can cram in the box.

Do the school really thing I'm going to bung sandwiches, cucumber, pepper strips, satay and illegal cake in one Tupperware box with no method of wrapping them?

Dd came home today with no empty sandwich bags which is unusual. Apparently the kids with rubbish at the end of lunch have to put their rubbish in a big bag so at the end of the trial they can see how much they're damaging the world.

At the end of the day I'm happy with current set up, so is dd.

My son has a lunch bag from Morrisons.

It has a take-away sized box for his sandwich, a little round one for his veg, it then fits in a piece of fruit and a plastics drinks bottle.

Your lunch bag is therefore tiny or your tupperware box it too big.

Your poor kids tuna is flying everywhere woman

Sort it aaaaht

What Crackfox said X2.

Wrapping food up keeps it fresh I wonder if teachers would eat sandwiches that have been exposed for 6 hours ~sometimes longer if they are done overnight~?

Wtf, if the sandwiches came home in the clingfilm I still wouldn't send it back with them the next day, who wants to eat yesterday's sandwich that has been stood in a box all day.

Well, yes you may be

But I don't blame them for encouraging green because if you are using clingfilm, it isn't the greenest option and they're just trying to point it out.

Yeah, just chuck your old Tupperware in the bin and buy new stuff. The planet will love you more for it.

No no no

You can use a plastic tupperware container, just not lots of little bits of plastic that have to be binned (that's my understanding anyway)

Why would you have to chuch your old tupperware in the bin?

Seriously, keep their beak out!

WTF?

How is encouraging using recyclable packaging not tantamount to not teaching?

I only have so much room for tupperware so I could take the old tupperware to a charity shoP who will more than likely chuck it in the bin for me. Or I could Just stick to using my old Tupperware and use the odd bit of tin foil.

I think you will find encouraging does not mean the same as dictating.

I have to chuck it in the bin because it's too big!

But the tuna isn't flying anywhere because the tuna sandwich is in a sandwich bag in the Tupperware box.

Ah thought I read someone recycled the sandwiches too but think I read it wrong, thank god

If the whole point of it all is to 'bag up' the recyclable and non recyclable packaging so the kids can see how much they are damaging the world, then the experiment fails as any wrappers you would normally reuse have been put in the bin of shame by the Eco committee.

Sigh.

Eco warriors, not Eco committee. They're that committed they're warriors.

If you separate the cake from the savouries by wrapping it in a clean kitchen towel/paper napkin, you could argue that the kitchen towel/napkin is not packaging, it is for cleaning up (face, hands, spills, etc). Is the satay sticky? If not, should be ok to mingle with veg and sandwiches? After all, satay is traditionally served with cucumber (and raw onion) on the same plate.

Aaargh.

I think you will find it's educational!

You don't have to chuck it viva you may need to use it again for leftover roast meats, or veg or salad greens etc....

Don't bin it unless its duff.

Was only kidding about the tuna!

My son's tuna sandwiches also stay intact in a small tupperware box too (you know the plastic ones, similar to the size you get a take-away dish in?)

Anyway, people do what they do, I just use little pots and always have done.

Some do some don't, I don't think that demonstrating the potentional benefits of it is a bad thing.

My view was always if they want to tell me how to travel to school and what to feed my children then the gloves are off over correct spellings, grammar and robust mathematical groundings.

I think a lot of school's have a very blurred line between 'encourage' and 'dictate'

It's like the whole lunch box police thing.

I absolutely support the whole healthy eating drive in schools, given the shit some poor kids were sent in with.

But then some schools go way OTT and start actually taking food out of the children's hands.

Same with this Eco drive...encourage by all means but don't start taking reusable wrappings and throwing them in the bin. That's a step too far.

Good point marriedinwhite - if you want to tell me how to be a parent then I will feel that is a two way street.

OFGS I hate whimsical schemes that actually cause parents great stress, they just don't think that families are actually busy and skint and can frigging do without it. My school seem to have dress in a certain colour for some random reason days quite often. We actually sent ds1 in a pyjama top because we couldn't find his one right colour shirt the other day .

I can't complain though they didn't do the whole book day character thing this year for which I am grateful.

DamnBamboo you get a big shiny medal for putting crudites in your childs lunchbox, just because.

Maybe if I'd had a bit more notice and could have had a think about it, time to buy smaller Tupperware then maybe I'd have joined in. Letter came home on Friday, I found it Monday morning as I was putting her lunch in her bag.

married so true really isn't it.

Go in and say I'll be green you fool, if you learn how to use fucking punctuation properly

See worra I've never had any issue with dictating school staff so I view this as encouraging. Interestingly, my son just last week was given (by me) some kind of gram flour snack as part of his packed lunch and he mentioned that he may not be able to eat it at which point I flexed my tiny very large muscles and said if they tried to take it that I had said he could have it and that they should phone me.

Turns out they only remove stuff (to be returned to parent) if it's a mars bar, or a big bag or haribo etc...

It's about common sense surely and perhaps a little bit of an education for some on being green? That's my take on it anyway

blackletter

I'm a lazy cow and I have one of those weird kids who love veg in all shapes and forms.

Chopping up a pepper crudely and shoving it with a couple of cherry toms in a small plastic pot with a lid takes me

That's my take too Damn but common sense tells me you don't take food out of a child's hand when they want to eat it.

If the food is unsuitable (like a mars bar for example) then tackle the parents.

If I were the OP I wouldn't be happy because I don't keep lots of tupperware

And what happens if you have 3 or 4 kids? Are you suddenly supposed to jump up and buy it at the weekend?