to feel almost bullied by schools/packed lunches?

[SufferingSaffy]

Generally I'm quite supportive of schools trying to get childrens' lunch boxes in a healthier shape.
My DSs usually contain something like:
wholemeal cheese or ham sandwich
yoghurt
fruit
bread sticks/crackers.

(I used to send a cake bar instead of crackers but it got sent back home so many times for being chocolate)

The school are on yet another healthy lunches mission. This time they want to see all packed lunches contain 2 pieces of fruit/vegetable. They are also encouraging children to eat something other than sandwiches and will award children with an alternative to sandwiches with a certificate for healthy eating.

I personally find my DCs 1 piece of fruit enough. We like sandwiches in this house so why should they discourage it?

*and don't get me started on the ice cream/ cakes they dish up with school dinners.

AIBU? Go on, I can take it probably

'Has' disappeared

DD's primary school was inspected recently and got a good Ofsted report. They don't check lunchboxes or have any rules that I know of. DD has taken profiteroles in before and eaten them next to the head teacher.

That's a bit cruel SeaHouses :)

I have no idea about OFSTED. I teach in Scotland. There is a nutrition inspector in each team - part of 'Hungry for Success '.

I send my little fella with a sandwich every day, packet of crisps, some grapes or an apple and gasp!!!....I put a treat in too like small packet of buttons or fun size fudge. He always eats his sandwich and fruit and sometimes the treat comes home untouched. I think a small treat is perfectly reasonable. Just like majority of the teachers will have in the staff room. I am a teacher. There is constantly biscuits etc in our staff room. At break time most children have a piece of fruit not two or three biscuits like teachers may have had with their coffee ;) I have never been approached by the lunchbox police and god help them if I was.

YANBU, I get really fucked off with the rules. I ignore all of them with the exception of no peanut butter as I believe that is due to allergy risk.

I also get sick of being sent home forms to detail how healthy we are. I deliberately get DS1 to undermine the system by talking about anything except fruit and veg e.g. had a dream about being a fish, dreaming is very important for our mental health because...

I send my little fella with a sandwich every day, packet of crisps, some grapes or an apple and gasp!!!....I put a treat in too like small packet of buttons or fun size fudge. He always eats his sandwich and fruit and sometimes the treat comes home untouched. I think a small treat is perfectly reasonable. Just like majority of the teachers will have in the staff room. I am a teacher. There is constantly biscuits etc in our staff room. At break time most children have a piece of fruit not two or three biscuits like teachers may have had with their coffee ;) I have never been approached by the lunchbox police and god help them if I was.

Thankfully our schools only lunch box stipulation is no glass bottles or jars! I am wondering whether these schools are in quite deprived areas.Round these parts parents simply wouldn't stand for being dictated to as to what they are and are not allowed to feed their children.

My son is not old enough to go to school but this would drive me mad. How dare they presume to question what you choose to feed your child whilst serving up cakes and biscuits for school dinners. If I come across this when my child goes to school I'm afraid I would ignore the rules and would send him in with what I believe to be a healthy balanced lunch.

My child, my rules :)

Sorry, I meant to add last week that I DO understand the rules for allergy sufferers (there are a few nut allergies in school, and an egg allergy in DD's class) so those rules are fine.

But the general "healthy lunchbox" rules - gah! As long as DD eats reasonably healthily in general, I have NO problems sending a few treats the odd day.

Have read so many threads about this and is makes me

My DS's are not at school yet but will be very soon and reading all this makes me a bit nervous!

One question though, because I genuinely have no idea, my DS2 is autistic and has some 'food issues'.

If I give him fruit he won't eat it, he doesn't eat sandwiches only something on one slice of bread (and then only cheese) so it worries me what I will actually me able to give him for lunch that complies with the 'rules'!

Would they make an exception for him because of his SN or would they expect him to not eat every lunch time?