To get annoyed with the hypocricy of schools lunch policy.

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At our school we have a system of 'red cards' if you send something that is deemed to be bad. Its a new system that utr new head had implimented.

on Monday I sent DD in with some cubes of cheese - got a card, but on the school dinners menu was Macaroni Cheese. FriDAY I sent her in with a packet on animal biscuits, again a red card but pudding for those on HSD was pineapple upsidedown cake and custard.

AIBU to think it doesnt balance and doesnt make any sense to punish one set of children while doling out treats to the other, especially if they will all be eating it come September?

Our primary school had no fizzy, no sweets rule... which was fine with us... never found ourselves the wrong side of it

(when they get to secondary all this becomes a bit arbitrary - no one gives a damn what the teenagers eat...)

As an aside, I find all the "pizza is bad" stuff to be funny.... bread, tomato paste (cooked tomatoes - loads of lycopene!) and cheese.... so basically a cooked cheese and tomato sandwich.

And since cooked tomatoes have stronger health benefits than raw... pizza can be a healthier choice than a cheese and tomato sandwich - or is cheese only healthy if it is in little cubes a-la mumsnet...

It's not that pizza is unhealthy (or at least not in my book) but that our particular school serves it with pasta and baked beans - carbs on carbs on carbs, with a tiny amount of protein from the beans and the miniscule amount of cheese they use. It's the combinations I find questionable for the most part, and the meat products - I'm really unhappy about the 'meat' elements on our school's menu.

that hasn't changed though... I had school dinners 40 years ago and even then most dinners were potatoes with "mystery meat..." and grey vegetables ... thank goodness for Fridays ... and fish...

Sure someone's mentioned before about cheese at schools not always bring real cheese but cheese powder.

So a pizza would be perfectly fine until topped with cheap reformed meat and fake cheese. And as pp above said served with chips. (Again chips fine in a healthy diet but carbs carbs and more carbs is not a good meal)

Just a thought here but has any school tried offering an incentive scheme - so for example...
Eat some veg sticks with your packed lunch, get a green card. Then ten green cards earns 15 minutes more playtime.

Or something like that? Might be better at encouraging children to try new things as well, but without punishing those who don't.

You need to red card the HT for being such an ignorant fool.

Does the HT have any other symptoms of mental impairment?