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Original poster

To think that yogurt raisins are ok for a lunchbox?

53 replies

harryhausen · 10/01/2013 16:13

Well just that really. My ds was told today by the dinner lady that he wasn't allowed to eat his yogurt raisins from his lunch box. My ds is only 5 so he didn't ask for further explanation.

Yogurt raisins are ok aren't they? I mean he had a cheese & salad wrap, an apple & a small packet of bread sticks too. The yogurt raisins were the 'treat'

I've put them into both my dcs lunch before with no problems. Bit mystified.

OP posts:
LadyKinbote · 10/01/2013 16:17

YANBU. It's hardly crack.

AndABigBirdInaPearTree · 10/01/2013 16:18

I don't see a problem with them but they are sweets.

Cherriesarelovely · 10/01/2013 16:18

Well they would be fine at my school. I can't abide these punitive lunchbox policies where things are confiscated from children in the dinner hall. It upsets both the children and the parents. I have heard about some incredibly rigid lunchbox policies on MN. Sorry, that was a long way of saying YANBU.

Binkyridesagain · 10/01/2013 16:18

Could they have been mistaken for chocolate peanuts?

Dawndonna · 10/01/2013 16:18

My dd has had them all the way through school, she's sixteen now. Nobody has ever queried it. Maybe lunchtime assistant thought it was chocolate?

thebody · 10/01/2013 16:19

Go to the school, see the head and just tell her to tell the lunch lady to mind her own business. Worked for me!!

VisualiseAHorse · 10/01/2013 16:20

Yoghurt raisins...surely not sweets? Raisins aren't sweets, and neither is a yoghurt?

Andro · 10/01/2013 16:20

Uhoh...the dinner dictators strike again!

I can't see anything wrong with a few yoghurt raisins as part of a healthy, balanced lunch. I can think of far worse things to put in a lunch box, that's for darn sure.

YADNBU!

phantomnamechanger · 10/01/2013 16:21

I bet she thought it was white chocolate

But taking the word of a 5 yo without any further reason is not always reliable - maybe he was just eating too slow? maybe they needed the table for the next class? or he was on last sitting and it was time for afternoon registration?

if its bothering you try to find out what happened - a 5yo may even have said that because he didn't eat them as he wanted to go out and play!

ilovepowerhoop · 10/01/2013 16:21

my two get them in their lunch bag on a friday.

ThatArtfulPussy · 10/01/2013 16:21

They're not much better for you than chocolate ones - the coating is palm oil and sugar, not really yoghurt. Do they have a really strict policy about sweet things? I'd definitely ask though. Or perhaps she thought they were nuts?

WelshMaenad · 10/01/2013 16:21

I loathe policing of lunch boxes and feel that if I want to put a little chocolate bar in my child's otherwise healthy lunch I should bloody well be able to, so I did! She's cooked dinners now and was served chocolate cake and custard yesterday insert eye roll .

However, 'yoghurt' coated things are actually quite nutritionally crack as the coating is oil and sugar and the tiniest bit of powdered yoghurt. People think they're healthy because holland and Barrett sell them, but tbh I'd rather go for the good honest option of chocolate coated things. Usually cheaper too. Unless your Dc really likes the yoghurt things, which is fair enough, as long as you're aware that they're no better, and possibly worse than, chocolate coated ones.

That was probably no help at all.

phantomnamechanger · 10/01/2013 16:22

mind you, have you seen how much sugar is in those yoghurt coatings!

ThatArtfulPussy · 10/01/2013 16:22

Visualiseahorse - they're not covered in yoghurt. The main ingredient is sugar, then palm oil, a few nasties and "yoghurt powder".

ThatArtfulPussy · 10/01/2013 16:23

Xpost obviously

magimedi88 · 10/01/2013 16:24

I honestly didn't realise that there were lunch box policies in schools. (My DS is 30+).

I am really amazed!

(And feel quite old now Grin )

Vagaceratops · 10/01/2013 16:25

My DD takes blueberry yoghurt covered raisins most days.

VisualiseAHorse · 10/01/2013 16:26

Aha, thank you for clearing that up. I just thought they were yoghurt...I suppose the same goes for those 'yoghurt' cereal bars etc?

BornToFolk · 10/01/2013 16:27

Yoghurt raisins...surely not sweets? Raisins aren't sweets, and neither is a yoghurt?

Well, both the raisins and "yoghurt" coasting are packed full of sugar, so they are pretty much sweets, for example, these Holland and Barratt ones are 65.4% sugar and 15.3% fat.

But as a treat item as part of a lunch like you describe, I don't see the problem with them.

Original poster
harryhausen · 10/01/2013 16:30

Ok, fair enough. I know they're not exactly angelic food but ds really likes them and I thought they'd look better than a kitkatGrin

Our school say they have a strict healthy eating rule, but like I say I've put them in before and had no problems. I've also put in a kitkat or penguin biscuit too before now and had no quibbles. I've seen some children regularly have crisps and chocolate in their lunch.

I just wish there was a bit of consistency I suppose.

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DoItToJulia · 10/01/2013 16:36

All this talk of the ingredients of yoghurt raisins is a bit daft....dinner supervisors do not read the ingredients of all of the components of each child's lunch!

So they may not be the healthiest snack in the world, but neither are they the worst snack.

YANBU it s horrible that she picked on a small boys lunch. After all he didn't pack it. If they have a problem with the contents of a 5 year old boys lunch, they should contact the parents.

DoItToJulia · 10/01/2013 16:37

Oops, x post OP

ThunderInMyHeart · 10/01/2013 16:38

Yoghurt in that context is actually basically just chocolate - it has a lot of sugar in it, which may lead to a hyperactive child. However, frankly, all things in moderation. The rest of the lunch sounded fine.

ThunderInMyHeart · 10/01/2013 16:39

X-post with Born

AndABigBirdInaPearTree · 10/01/2013 16:39

See I'd rather my kids have a kitkat or penguin because then they are well aware it is junk food and I'd like them to be clear on that. I particularly hate those "fruit snacks" we have here which are boiled clear apple juice with no redeeming nutritional value at all. They are presented as a healthy option when there really is not a whole lot of difference between them and a starburst.