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.

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If you are calling the OP a troll, then report it.

I have.

Complain to the Dinner Supervisor, the Head Teacher, and the Education Authority. It is not the duty of the Education system to monitor what children eat, although a great many younger members of staff believe that it is, and approach lunch boxes with missionary-like zeal. Alternatively, you could feed your child at home for lunch time, as parents used to do.

Then stop repeatedly saying she's lying.

You weren't there. I can well believe some heads are zealous about this.

My child sometimes has a nutella (GF) sandwich. She won't eat anything else on bread - at all. Judge away, but I don't have time to cook (GF) pasta every morning, and it doesn't keep as well as normal pasta anyway.

I can believe it too. Dd has started turning down all sorts saying it's not healthy

Thankfully still eats any home made cakes/muffins/puddings though.

Always room for cake :o

curlew

Can we please stop with the overweight dinner ladies comments, and the ones saying that they are not qualified in nutrition

They are enforcing the heads rules, they have no say in what school dinners are served and their weight is fuck all to do with them keeping their jobs

By all means be angry but the anger should be directed at the school if they are depriving the children of lunches and making daft rules

Has anyone said I bet they have pork pies, cake and coke in the staff room yet?

Especially at Christmas. Or at birthdays when cakes etc are brought in

I once brought in a pineapple on my birthday because I wanted to do something different to loads of cakes and biscuits.

If she had had a ham, tomato and lettuce would that have been ok. The only difference between ham and bacon is how it is processed.

I would be demanding to speak to the head about this today. I more angry that OP dd had her lunch removed rather then what's in it. Why didn't they just let her eat it and sent a letter home to the parent about what should be in a packed lunch.

A freind had this with her dc, her dad had made her lunch that day and had put in a tiny chocolate sweet in as it was Friday as a tweet. DC got told about her 'unhealthy lunch'. Unfortunately for the head my friend is a specialist nurse who deals with children with eating issues. And was able to explain about good nutrition and that lunch is just a small part of a daily diet.

Primary School's by putting in such strict so called healthy eating are creating more teenagers with eating issues. My friend is seeing more and more 7yr old with eating issues.

Yes they have curlew

Just reading this thread and finding it incredulous! My DC are teenagers now but were very fussy as youngsters and regularly had crisps and a choc biscuit in their lunch boxes just so that I would be satisfied they did not go hungry. If the story is true, I would go to the local papers!

the nhs guidleines for packed lunches are madness, dried fruit and a piece of fruit?? Iknow natural sugars are better than processed, but still that seems odd. dd aged 7 is the only one of my dc to have packed lunches (ds 1&2 senior school and college take £, probably to at junk and dd2 is at daycare nursery lunch provided) and she has a sandwich/roll or wrap, usually with ham, or cheese and cucumber/tomato/lettuce, often with a scraping of mayo. A piece of fruit such as an apple or banana, maybe a handful of blueberries/strawberries/grapes. A yogurt or piece of cheese and a biscuit on a Friday she has a packet of quavers/wotsits/mini cheddars, and maybe one other time in the week.

Shes a tall for age average built 7yr old girl. I am worried by some of the things she comes out with as healthy/unhealthy. I tell her that everything is healthy in moderation, one piece of chocolate cake or a bowl of ice cream a week is not unhealthy but a treat as part of a balance healthy diet.

We have a strong family history of eating disorders and I don't want dd going the same way. I have been anorexic, bulimic and an over eater, now a 'healthy' eater and a size 10/12, which I did as much for my dc as myself (used to be a 24/26 and 20 stone)

Yes I just looked very little fat and protein. Lots of processed food- sausage, cheese triangles and low fat stuff which usually has sweeteners and more sugar added.

And lots of sugar. Rice pot and malt loaf?

Absurd.

This recent program sugar v fat was very interesting if only for the twin doctors www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t8r4h

DS has mostly packed lunches but dinners one day a week. He's skinny and fussy and I know his packed lunches aren't always super-healthy (today was a peanut butter sandwich, half an apple, cheese cubes, half a packet of hula hoops and a yoghurt) but then I see what he has for school dinners and don't really think my offering is that bad - at least he eats it.

The mains for dinners seem ok - roast chicken, mash and veg (that he won't eat), chickpea curry and rice (won't eat), lamb tagine and couscous (won't eat) but then always, always followed by a stodgy pudding - rice pudding and jam, chocolate sponge and custard, jelly and icecream. Obviously he always eats the pudding

Sorry, but I just don't believe any school in the country would confiscate grapes or a yoghurt/fromage frais. Are other people buying that?

They only confiscated some grapes. Not all of them.

Which ones are ok then?

I think she was allowed 5.
But more than that and there was too much sugar.

"I had given her a wrap with some chicken I'd stripped from the chicken I'd roasted and some bits of chopped up pepper. It was confiscated because the wrap was white. The fun sized yoghurt was confiscated because it wasn't low fat, the five grapes were confiscated because they were too sugary. She was left with the few carrot batons I'd cut up.
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Looks like I was wrong.

I am truly shocked by some of these accounts and would have gone mad if this had happened to DD when she was little.

However, I do not find it difficult to believe that the dinner ladies would have no idea what they were doing with the rules they were meant to impose.

Some examples:

DD has almost always had school dinners but when she was at primary there was a rule that when they got their main course they had to get the "main thing", something from the potato/pasta/rice section and a vegetable. One day she told me she had had a jacket potato and pasta for lunch! When I said that was just weird she said she thought so too but the dinner lady had insisted that she had to have potato or pasta with her potato!!

Then one time when she was about 6 I asked her what vegetable she had had and she said stuffing. I told her stuffing wasn't a vegetable but she asid it was with the other vegetables so she thought it must be and the dinner lady hadn't commented.

But most recently - she is in Y13 now so at 18 is perfectly capable of knowing what a healthy lunch is but making her own choice anyway - the school had a "healthy" meal deal. If you had a sandwich, drink of water and piece of fruit then you got it for a special rice. DD had a panini and a drink and a large cookie. The dinner lady told her this qualified for the meal deal!! She didn't argue with that one....

I was made to eat fish as a child when the dinner lady accidentally gave me the fish shapes rather than the vegetarian ones (same shapes) and when I told another dinner lady after I say down she stood over me to ensure I ate it so I can see this happening with a god-complexed dinner lady. Do recall the school and contact the lea. This lunch box policing is going mad.

Any update OP?