Ds is having school dinners this year as they're free so saving me a lot of time and money.
The meals are all cooked on site and are supposed to be healthy.
Ds school have always seemed to take the common sense approach to lunches in that they never policed childrens lunch boxes like I hear about in some schools.
However at the start if term we had a letter stating that as if now we would no longer be allowed to send in anything unhealthy and they sent a list of banned foods.
I'm not bothered as the way I see it there's plenty of time for ds to have chocolate, crisps or whatever at home if I choose to give him that. I've no problem with a healthy food policy.
But, what I've found us that the school meals sound far from healthy, or at least what ds is choosing. For example he never seems to choose the veg, and will go for pizza and pasta together, he's also has pasty, sausage rolls. He seemed to have a sweet pudding every day such as chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, cheesecake. And, school ask us to sent in snack money for morning break, and ds is having a chocolate milkshake every day.
On top of that the school always seem to be having some event such as cake sales, or selling ice lollies, usually for a good cause.
It seems like a lot of sugary food to be having every day. I'm no health freak and think everything in moderation, but it seems a lot to be having cake/ice cream every day.
I think that there are other options available, but ds will always choose the sugary puddings, and I can't control that when I'm not there. Whereas I know he'd eat fruit and veg if it was all that was available.
Perhaps I'm just being daft, and should just be glad he's eating.
He's far from overweight or anything and quite active.