to think this is NOT an unhealthy lunch

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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'm worried that we are going to end up with children with issues around food.
School tells them that they can only it organic, fair trade, wholemeal hoummos, so they end up feeling bad about the occasional pizza or KFC.
We cover healthy eating in reception but only in the fruit is good, don't eat sweets all the time. As far as lunch boxes go I have only once said anything to a parent and that was when a child's lunch consisted of two chocolate spread sandwiches and two iced ring donuts.

Exactly, Pipbin..everything in moderation. 2 doughnuts is absolutely disgusting.

Looks like I am going to end up with a family of food snobs if thats the way things are going. However according to my BIL, his son (3 at the time) can taste the difference between Italian and Spanish ham. Honestly.

Wow, I will be so interested to hear what the school have to say!

Please do update pretty please?!

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Have no idea why thats not healthy. Madness. Send them a list of what was provided and ask them which bit they are concerned about. Plus ask for a list of approved foods?

I got told off for giving DD too much salad!

If all these stories are true, I am absolutely .
What in God's name are you supposed to give then if they're deeming salad unacceptable?
It's madness.
All ours say is that chocolate bars and juice aren't allowed. I can live with that. If they started saying no salad, no hummus, no veg sticks, and no pitta sticks I would have to ask them what on earth they were on and please could I have a tick sheet of so called 'acceptable' foods to their standards so there's no confusion?
-Then go through it picking it to pieces one by one with them when the so called tick sheet banged on about low fat yoghurts and no veg sticks and tell them exactly what and why on their list was a bag of shite--

Another entry for "Only on Mumsnet vol. 3":
"Not even shop-bought houmous!"

I just bow to anyone who puts so much effort into a school lunch that they make their own houmous!

(Ds has school dinners. I'm way too lazy for all this kinda crap)

Dinah Headmaster told me I was giving her too much and she was leaving it. 'In his house', they clear the plate...
Same as in mine which is why I'm a dysfunctional eater who doesn't know how to stop...
Id much rather she ate till she was full and then stopped.
We also had "Don't send soup in a flask in winter because of burns"...
Even though said soup had, by lunch, spent 4 hours cooling down and was the right side of lukewarm...
And my personal favourite: "Of course we cant cater school lunch for a coeliac. We cant cater for everyone, we do a vegetarian option"...
The lunch police drive me insane!

OP, do update when you know what the eff their problem was??

saggy
Id much rather she ate till she was full and then stopped.

By far the best way. Too many of us were brought up with the idea that everything had to be eaten. I can't bear to leave food on my plate which explains the extra couple of stones pounds i'm carrying

Is this insanity part of a covert plan to push parents into giving their DCs school lunches?
With every packed lunch thread on here I become increasingly anxious about the issue and mine aren't in reception yet.
Do they hope that they make it so difficult for parents to feed their own children that we give in and buy the horsemeat food that their caterers are serving?

I've lost track. .. did the OP say she was going to email the school? Wonder if any response yet.

I think the Op should print her list of lunch items & just ask. But as it was suggested up thread it's probably a packaging issue. Neither the lovingly homemade hummus nor the cutted up pitta is labelled & if the dc has been practicing his football it may not have looked tasty at all by lunchtime. Do people still have Tupperware parties?

Looking out for an update. Please ask them for clarification this morning OP!

It must be a mistake surely? The "verbal warning" is heavy handed.

Just googled "fairy bread". Definitely too early in the morning for that image. I feel queasy.

Shamelessly place marking!

Verbal warning indeed!!

Wot, no pot noodle? No wonder you were told off.

Did she bang her head in the morning and hallucinate a kebab?

Nothing wrong at all with that lunch and quite frankly it's none of their business anyway.

Is this insanity part of a covert plan to push parents into giving their DCs school lunches? With every packed lunch thread on here I become increasingly anxious about the issue and mine aren't in reception yet.

^^ My thoughts exactly.

at giles "did she bang her head in the morning and hallucinate a kebab?"

Please update OP. It's surely got to be mistaken identity!

i used to eat fairy bread as a child, 40 years ago! that is a lie, it was some sort of special coloured sugar. on white buttered bread.

It's got to be a mistake

The only possible thing I can see that they might be grumbling about is that there is quite a lot of food there - healthy, but quite a lot (disclaimer: my DCs are grazers so I may be wrong). But that would only be a problem if they have a policy of making children eat absolutely everything in their lunchbox before going out to play, which I know some schools do

There is no way it is unhealthy, though.