To be annoyed with what happened to DC at school today!

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DC have packed lunch and usually their lunch consist of Water a cathedral city snack, sandwiches and some sort of fruit usually apple slices. I packed DD lunch which was water, cheese snack bites, apple slices and sandwiches. When DD went to lunch the dinner ladies look in her box and told her she couldn't have her sandwich as it was unhealthy it was a BLT with cheese as they deemed it to be unhealthy it was confiscated!!! DD came home in tears and was pretty upset. AIBU to complain? DD has allergies so the school meals do not suit her that why she has packed lunch.

Those rules do not exclude the food you provided whatsoever. Definitely take this further.

Have they given you an actual list of acceptable food?

Because this is ridiculous.

Bacon is processed meat and there's evidence that too much processed food like bacon can be harmful.

However:

Too much - is not one piece of bacon. It's a lot of bacon. Every day.

Lots of meat in sandwiches is processed. Like ham, chicken. etc

So what made the school pick on bacon?

Harmful - well that's also interesting to explain in terms of raising the chances of a disease.

NHS guidlines on processed meat.

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/will-eating-red-and-processed-meat-give-me-cancer.aspx?CategoryID=96&SubCategoryID=227

It certainly doesn't say don't eat any. Plus the NHS healthy eating guidelines are questionable in places, which affects the credibility of anything they say on the subject.

Send them a link to this thread

Speak to the school nurse and ask fir a dietician referral as school feel you need help with nutrition and elaborate. Hopefully the SN would think WTF and speak to school.