Before my dd started school last September I was prepared for the food police so made sure I only put sandwiches, veg sticks, fruit and yogurt in her packed lunch which dd hated as it turns out most of the children have sandwiches, crisps and a chocolate bar (confirmed by a dinner lady who is a mother of a child at the school that I have become friends with). Dd tried school dinners, on the letter it says they are provided with water to drink, but the school allow them to bring their own drink if they do not like water, hence lots of fruit shoots by the kids coats every morning (my daughter included 
) they have a water fountain they can use throughout the day but they can also bring in a flask of squash if they do not like water. The only rules are no sweets or fizzy drinks or glass bottles. My dd has regularly taken a lunch box without any fruit or veg in as it always comes back home with her so I have given up. No one batts an eyelid when she has taken a sausage roll, crisps and a chocolate biscuit! Her school is in a very naice middle class area surrounded by huge houses and most parents driving BMWs aldi Mercedes, even the odd porche. I am shocked as after reading so much mumsnet I wasn't expecting the rules on eating to be so lax. Has anyone else found this? Or does everyone else have the food police that is talked about on mumsnet??