To think cheese is a healthy snack?

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Maybe I am. I gave my LB cheese chunks in a little pot and a small bottle of water for his Break today on his first day in Primary school. He loves this and has it at home. He came home with a note saying in future to send a healthy nutritious snack in future.

Can I ask what u would send as a Healthy snack to school please?

Ask a dentist and they'd tell you that cheese is much healthier for your child's teeth than fruit/raisins/yoghurt. The school is being ridiculous.

Well in PRESCHOOL I sent a tiny tub of pomegranate seeds, pine nuts and goji berries and got a note home to say it was too messy and could I send cheese instead. Hmmm.

But what can they actually do though? If you keep sending them with a snack they love and is good for them?

Send you to social services? Take the kid away?

I'd tell them to fuck off tbh. Since when did primary school teachers become Drs or nutritionists.

You'd almost think they were looking at food in isolation and not looking at the bigger picture.

The answer to someone who says it's not healthy is to ask why not.
and to ask what they mean by healthy

A healthy diet is a balanced diet, made up of a range of nutrients and not too heavy in certain stuff. Cheese is fine. A diet full of cheese probably not. Fruit is fine. But not to excess and only fruit.

cheese is a very healthy snack - along with full fat milk and real butter (its the margarines/spreads which are unhealthy) - fat will not make you fat anymore than a tomato will make you a tomato - its just unfortunate that it called 'fat' and we associate it with 'fat' in our bodies.
its the carbohydrate that makes you put on weight - so potatoes, pasta, bread etc and sugars, of course.

...and a piece of cheese is necessary after eating an apple - to counteract the acid.... which will attack your teeth....

its the carbohydrate that makes you put on weight - so potatoes, pasta, bread etc and sugars, of course

Hmmm. Carbohydrates are fine - just in moderation.

Fatty food will put fat on. If you don't use the calories available.

But that's for a different thread.

I don't think cheese is healthy, not alone anyway, would be better with some fruit/veg or something fibrous. Yes kids need fat but vegetable fats are much healthier than animal fats.

and a piece of cheese is necessary after eating an apple - to counteract the acid.... which will attack your teeth

And how does that work?

Yes kids need fat but vegetable fats are much healthier than animal fats

healthier - a degree of healthiness. So cheese is fine in moderation. It's not unhealthy. As usual, it's moderation.

A piece of cheese is a perfectly fine snack. It does not need anything else if it's a simple snack.

It's the whole diet that's important. Not food in isolation. Obsession lies that way.

Indeed.

We do need cholesterol, for example. Just not huge amounts.
Animal fats have vitamins that plant fats lack.

All are healthy. It's the relative amounts that are the problem.

It's probably that they don't want the children to bring in anything that needs to go into he fridge, cheese is better for their teeth than any acid or sweet items and contains calcium, that's all I can think of??
Can't they include a list of their interpretation of a healthy snack???

Of course a cube of cheese is a healthy snack.

Thank the heavens above that my kids' schools do not comment on what they do or don't eat - it's hard enough as it is to feed them

A growing child should NOT worry about the fat content of any given food, nor should their parent.
And of course we all need fat, protein and carbs + a multitude of various micronutrients to stay healthy, but the 'low fat' campaign in the last 30+ years has done rather a lot damage in that a lot of more fatty foods have been replaced by unnecessary and 'empty' carbs which induces an insulin overproductions which is now linked to all sorts of problems, including the rising tide in obesity and morbid obesity.

Fruit is yummy and full of vitamins etc, but it does contain a LOT of sugar. Fruit sugar is not any 'better' than any other sugar (nor is the sugar in honey btw) and again, a child should not even think about that: they should just enjoy a variety of different foods.

If I was told to not send cheese in for a snack for my child, I SO would take that further. Armed to the teeth with evidence to the contrary.

No wonder we are so screwy with our relationship with food when we start defining 'good' and 'bad' food at this age. Food is food, everying in moderation. Kids need calcium, kids needs fat. Cheese has vitamins and minerals and is not nutritionally bereft!

anything that needs to go into he fridge
Hard cheese wouldn't need to go in the fridge for that short time, surely? It's a way of preserving milk.

That is just ridiculous. Cheese is protein and calcium rich, in spite of the fat. Grapes are the most calorific fruit (as they have loads of natural sugar in them) you could send in but I bet they wouldn't have a problem with them.

in PRESCHOOL I sent a tiny tub of pomegranate seeds, pine nuts and goji berries

This is a wind-up, right?

Besides, we all need fat, particularly the sort of fat you get in cheese, so much better than trans-fat which is in so-called healthy spreads. Tell them to eff orf.

Cheese is a much better snack than a lot of fruits! Honestly these schools have me shaking my head some days.

A dentist friend of ours insists that cheese is a much better snack, especially for teeth - he told us to give our son a snack of cheese if it's up to an hour before bedtime as it's better for his teeth

Fatty food will put fat on.

Not necessarily. It depends on the type of fat and what other foods are also eaten. Having a Google "eat fat to loose fat" is interesting. There is a world of difference between processed fat and natural fat.

Fuck that....... Who the hell are they to dictate whether your child has a few cubes of cheese? Do they have a blanket ban on it? I would keep sending it in as a snack...cheese is much more preferable than sugar laden fruit. What will the school do..... exclude a child because parent keeps sending in a few cubes of cheese. Growing kids need fat. So glad I don't have to deal with this bollox any more.

There is a world of difference between processed fat and natural fat

I know A LOT about biochemistry and how fat etc is metabolised. I don't need Google to tell me that.

Back in the day when I was at primary school, albeit many moons ago, after lunch we were offered a piece of cheese or a piece of carrot as they were both healthy in their own ways.

If schools are saying to bring in a snack, it should be up to the parent what that snack is (within reason of course - not talking a packet of crisps or anything) .

I think cheese is healthy for a growing child. Not for me as I'm fat!

Our school provides the snack up to the end of year 2. It's always fruit. My son refuses to eat any fruit. So he goes without. He'd like cheese though.