to think this is NOT an unhealthy lunch

[ohhifruit]

DStS's teacher (he is in Junior school) pulled me aside after school to say his lunch was deemed 'an unhealthy lunch' and their first step was to give me a 'verbal warning' before writing to me. She even said 'I'm sure you can understand why we think this.'

This is what he had -

• Small pot of home made hummus
• Large wholemeal pitta cut into strips
• A hardboiled egg
• A handful of celery sticks
• A handful of carrot sticks
• A small pot of raisins
• Matchbox sized lump of chedder (which he saved to eat on the way home)
• Satusuma
• Small yoghurt

We've given him sandwiches and he never touches them but dippy types of food are always eaten and he reports how much he enjoys them. He isn't messy, almost to a fault, so I can't see them being bothered about a 'bits and bobs' lunch making a mess.

Is this unhealthy? I am racking my mind to figure out how on earth this is unhealthy? She wouldn't specify, I expect because it wasn't her who saw his lunch but rather it was reported back via lunch time staff.
I feel really annoyed to be told off by the teacher, she was pretty sneery and it wasn't until I got home I realised I should have asked to speak to the head.

I make my own hummous for DS's packed lunch because shop bought hummous is too runny/sloppy to put in a sandwich and he wouldn't have it as a dip, only as a spread. So I make it thick to spread it on. If he was fine to have it has a dip then I woulnd't bother making it, but making it doesn't take that long though anyway but I do prefer the shop bought one

YANBU, that is a perfectly healthy lunch. Although it is quite a massive lunch IMO. My quite a good eater DS (5) wouldn't be able to or have the time to eat half of that. Even I couldn't manage all that. Maybe it's the quantity of it rather than the quality? Although if your DS is eating the vast majority of it, then I see no problem anyway.

It has to be the raisins , my sons preschool had a lecture about the evils of raisins and citrus fruit , do you not care about your childs teeth OP

I wonder if a friend had given your DH something from their lunchbox

Just realised there were raisins and a satsuma , thats his teeth completely stuffed forever then , really have you no shame !

*DC

sniggers at the thought if you being told off about your DH's lunch!

Bet it's the cheese!!! Cheese is only allowed on pizzas served by school canteen and has to be in plastic form.

I am dying to see what the outcome of a chat with the school is.

I think it's a perfectly fine lunch.

Puts what I make for DS to shame. Disclaimer he is 16 and could make his bloody own It's always a pile of cheese sandwiches, packet of crisps, cereal bar and sometimes a little chocolate biscuit too. Now THAT I could see being not so healthy..

Marking place, has to be a mistake.

I am so pleased my last child is in his last year at school, you cant even feed your children a healthy diet without getting it in the ear.

marking also.

Crazy. I buy school dinners because they are really good here. But it seems that people are pointing out to the school that the dinners contain cake each day and packed lunches are not allowed to, because last week in the newsletter there was a statement saying that the 'cocoa used in the cakes are organic and are inline with the NHS healthy eating whatevers..' It was very defensive.

Marking my place too. I need to know what happened!

And me

Did you speak to them yet, OP???

I wonder when the OP will come back?

One random lunch box today.
White bread chocolate spread sandwich,
Mr Kipling cake, twin pack,
Dairylea dunker,
Apple,
Plain crisps,
Water.

I pass no comment. That was just random example. No lunch box police here.

I've ranted about this on another thread - my DS friend brought his school packed lunch out the other Friday (school is only a half day here so kids on FSM get a packed lunch automatically). It was a white roll with processed cheese, a choc-chip cookie (huge!), a carton of chocolate milk and an apple. I would bloody love someone at school to give me a verbal warning with that as their version of a nutritious pack up.

Oh, and a jelly yogurt thing.

Oh, and a jelly yogurt thing.

I'd love to know what they thought was unhealthy!

ohhifruit Mon 24-Feb-14 17:23:09

"....Sometimes he has a bit pork pie..."

Hmmm.

The lunchbox police seem to be out in force at the moment. I can't stand them in any of their forms. They are loons.

That sounds a lovely, healthy and imaginative lunchbox. I wish I had the OP's imagination in that way.

Hope you get satisfactory answers.

OP - come back!

I do find it very strange that I have never heard of anyone in real life who has suffered under the heel of the lunch box police apart from one who's child had a yesterday's macdnald's happy meal,(symptomatic of other neglect) and one other who had to be persuaded not to send cans of coke. I must have been incredibly lucky over my 18 years as a parent.

The only thing I can think is the quantity, it does seem like rather a lot.

DVDplayer, what's your point?

OP, the teacher was ridiculous and handled it very badly.