AIBU to be livid about this (school dinners)

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Dd had her braces fitted yesterday and is really, really struggling to eat. I rang up the school dinner provider to ask if they could waive the 7 day in advance booking for school dinners, as it was an extenuating circumstance( school dinners here are always very soft/ mushy, which is usually a disadvantage but would suit dds braces). I was given a whole load of officious bullshit about exact numbers, low availability of food and how my dd would be depriving another child if they sold me a meal for Monday. They said they could only sell me a dinner for Wednesday FFs!

They were so jobs worthy about the whole thing, it made me SO mad. I asked to speak to someone senior who had the authority to make an exception. They just repeated what their colleague had said but eventually agreed to call head office.

I have just had a call back and they have agreed to feed my dd as a massive one off favour to us.

So the problem is solved, but my blood is still boiling! AIBU to think that I shouldn't have had to argue with 2 people and make 3 phone calls to arrange school dinners for next week? Their attitude was about as far from child centred as you could possibly get. AIBU to be appalled by this?

YABU

As WooWoo says school kitchens are very tight run ships. I worked in one when my kids were small and meal planning was done for the following week with meticulous precision. Portion sizes were controlled, even down to knowing how many potatoes to put into the boiler the day before (potatoes were peeled and left in a large boiler a day in advance in the school I worked at. It would come on and start cooking slowly before we arrived in work. If an extra child was added to the list then the already cooked food would need to go that little bit further).
Our school cook was old school and so very bloody good at her job that there was usually barely a stray pea left after lunch.

The fact they have agreed means there is probably a school cook scratching her head trying to work out how to stretch things that little bit further. They ladies in the kitchen work incredibly hard.

Give her a flask of soup and chill the fuck out.

This. Or maybe you could ask the school to arrange delivery of appropriate foods directly to your door to help out while you "experiment", and then rant about how jobsworth they are when they tell you to do one.

Soup in a flask- warmer opt

Cold-
Couscous
Rice
Pasta- smaller shapes

Etc

good grief. Some of you got out of bed the wrong side this morning.

The OPs DD is only 9

Braces are bad enough at 15, never mind at that young age.

re the soup suggestions, hot soup in a primary school? I can't imagine that being allowed.

YANBU. exceptions could be made, particularly as this is a young child we are talking about.

Re block braces - my ds had to keep his in for eating too. He ate soup at school for first few days (he is secondary though so did not need to arrange in advance). I think you are stressing re these braces - they are a real shock to the system at first as your dc looks so very different - and the braces are horrendous to wear until they get used to them. There are threads on here about block braces - it does get better, honest! Took ds about 1 week to master eating with them. He got his last March and by November was allowed to remove them during the day. It has made a tremendous difference to him.

cous cous and rice are probably the worst things to eat with non removable braces.

I think a problem will also be the actual eating - with classmates gawping to see how she manages.

I think soup is an excellent idea - in a flask it wont be very hot and if it is smooth then she wont have bits stuck in the wires.

They are a bugger and uncomfortable (and sometimes sore), but she needs to find out what she can manage - best not to try new things when she is out of the house.

People are being a bit harsh to the OP, but really I'd have given her a flask of soup (and a straw?) or a smoothie with a straw. Would have done a smoothie with banana and oats and chia seeds, yog and juice soaked overnight.

I had an operation on my jaw many years ago and mum blended up chicken, gravy and mash for me to slurp at!