to think we should be able to choose what our kids eat for lunch?

[Cuddler]

My friends son is starting school in September and she has been given a whole list of things he isn't allowed in his lunch box.Not just for allergy reasons,i understand those,but things like,no cheese sandwiches,as thats dairy and carbs together,and no ham as its processed,no yogurts if they have sweeteners in them.No tropical fruits,only berries,apples,pears and peaches,they are better for concentration.no white bread.No pasteurized juice.

I'm not saying that the above isn't true,my kids don't have sugary yogurts or white bread sandwiches,BUT i would like to think they could have them if they wanted to,and i do think that this is going about things in the wrong way?In the grand scheme of things,a cheese sandwich,a frube,a banana and some apple juice isn't that bad is it?I mean it could be worse?

Those foods are provided to around 60 Primary schools in Brighton by the way

If true, this is absolutely bonkers.

But no dairy and carbs? So whatever sandwich the child manages to sneak past the lunchbox police, the bread can't be buttered? That's just cruel. I blinking love butter!

"Monday - Ham or Egg Ploughmans"

"Friday - White Bread"

Lots of cheese dishes too.....

Can't believe a school has the authority to ban all these things. There will be some jobsworth type person who probably hasn't a clue about nutrition and whose own diet is dreadful, behind all this.

I do agree there needs to be some sort of policing for the child's benefits. At my DS2s pre-school we have some children sent in with a can or coke, giant sausage roll and a pack of chocolate mini rolls, this lunch would be a similar thing every day for that child. I am in no way exaggerating, we gently remind them of the guidelines which also include suggestions of what to include etc.

as an aside (dish) what's a seasonal salad in Brighton in December likely to be

I have found there to be no correlation between 'recommended' lunch box contents and what is provided in school dinners.

We are told that biscuits and chocolate are unsuitable - fair enough. But on the school dinner menu, pudding is a giant chocolate chip cookie on some days.

It's an utter nonsense.

If DS weren't allowed any dairy on his sandwiches, I would have to give him unbuttered marmite ones. Or jam. How is that healthy?

This is utter rubbish. Would be in the papers now. Your friend is also a raw vegan who breastfeeds a 4 year old. Hmmm.

Knowing brighton i can well believe it as brighton is full of your lentil weaving, green party voting loons.

If you think it's rubbish, bamboo and all the others who have said/intimated the same, why don't you alert MNHQ instead of accusing the OP of lying?

Brighton is known for its high population of people with alternative/non-conformist/call it what you will views.

Name the school, if you don't mind.

If pasteurisation is banned, are they applying that to milk and all irked made with milk.

Or is it just the final proof that this is list defies logic and common sense.

What counts as white bread? That covers everything from white sliced pan to baguette to soda bread I make myself. No dairy & carb combos? Entire food cultures ruled out so.

Twits. If true of course and not one of these EU straight bananas tales. Am leaning towards the urban myth side now...

I thought dds school was strict,

100% fruit juice, plain water or milk
No crisps, cheddars anything like that at all.
No cake bars, sweet snacks - flapjacks allowed
Nothing covered in or containing chocolate

DD1s teacher went through their lunch boxes last week and told dd1 that the pack of plain mini digestive biscuits she were too fattening and "mummy should put in something less fattening"

DD1 is very skinny and when ever she goes to the docs they always ask me if she's eating enough full fat products!

cantspel very true description of Brighton and wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Not sure what is permitted for this school as sanwiches seem outlawed? Perhaps just raw organic foods with an organic humous dip? Children need carbs and protein they need extra calories for all the growing and activities they do. Of course they should not allow junk food but this is crazy.

HokeyCokey I bet that made you furious!

Stupid, stupid woman. Are these people trying to encourage skewed relationships with food? Plain mini digestives . . . . . . I mean come on.

Completely nuts guidelines (weak pun in there, I'm sure). Puhlease tell us which school, linky?

Your friend who is a raw vegan, has a son who mainly lives on breastmilk, and he is going to start school soon.

the school have said he is not allowed to have things like cheese sandwiches or bananas in his lunch box.

Right.

the only possible thing I can suggest is that your friend has massive food issues (which is sometimes the case with people on more extreme diets, they use that to disguise their issues with food) and she wants to enforce the restrictions you mention and has told everyone it is what the school has said to avoid people questioning her.

unless it is a raw vegan private school or something.

Hokey - your DDs school is also loony .

Cheese in bread is OK - but cheese in a pack on it's own is banned?
Banana bread is banned - but flapjack (with butter and golden syrup etc.) is OK?
Telling children food is too fattening? Too fattening for what?

I would love to have first dibs on sitting in the staff room and picking holes in the staff's packed lunches.

The school definitely needs to get a grip

squoosh i was slightly cross!!

I do stick to all the lunch box guidelines even if i don't agree with them as it's about setting an example to dd that you have to do things even if you don't agree sometimes.

This time though i did just tell dd not to worry about it, i don't think teachers should be going through lunch boxes anyway, they should be teaching.

Each class has a dinner lady who monitors what everyone in their class is eating at lunchtime and confiscates any foods that are not allowed.

Today dd has plain mini digestives again!

Wonder what the school lunches are at this school?

yes, interesting sardine queen

We have cheese sandwich in white bread sometimes. My homemade white bread is fantastic, even if I say so myself. Sometimes we have other things. What is the big deal? Ds2 has school dinner once a week. That's when he comes home with tales of "I had pizza and chips and ice cream".