School lunchbox police

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My 4 year old daughter came home from school today and informed me that Miss X, her teacher, doesn't like it when children have chocolate in their lunchbox. She was visibly worried about it.

I have been packing her a fun sized (2 inch) Milky Way bar every day this week (last week it was mini ginger bread men, and some other small treat the week before). She also takes a wholemeal sandwich, small packet of savoury snacks and a piece of fruit. She knows that she must eat the sandwich and fruit before she eats the treat.

AIBU to resent:

A. The implication that I, as the parent, am unable to make suitable food choices for my child?

B. The complaint being made to my 4 year old child, rather than to me?

Wow, there are some holier than thou cunts on this thread.

Not being funny but a slice of cake with custard is a slice of cake with custard isn't it.

You can't exactly make a cake without sugar can you?

And even if you did its packed full of butter and flour it's hardly healthy!

I think you're kidding yourself if you think they purposely make shit cakes so kids don't want more.

If they didn't want them to eat cake they quite simply wouldn't offer it would they?

I think you misread my post, milky.

I didn't say they made them without sugar.
I didn't say they made shit cakes.
Our kitchen doesn't use butter - it's too expensive.
We don't serve custard with cake.

Have you ever tasted a cake from a state school kitchen? I think you'd be in for a surprise. If you pm me your address, I could send you one

Rhondas post is spot on. The school cooks regularly get audited and spot checks made and the food has to be made to county standards following recipes that are given to all the local authority schools. They have such a low budget to produce a school dinner. They don't purposely make "shit cakes". The menu is designed and the cooks produce it as they are told to. If you don't want your child to eat it you send them in with a packed lunch. School lunches are not like being in a cafe or restaurant. The choice is limited. Especially in a primary school.

DetailedConfusion exactly the same here. One day she came home and said she'd had jacket potato and mashed potato!

I'm not asking for her hand to be held, but can they not just say no?! I wouldn't let her do that at home and she's just chancing her arm at school and getting away with it!

Do the food rules apply to academies, does anyone know? Also, my son's local church primary is (like the majority of primary schools in my area) too small to have a catering kitchen ). All the meals are made by the local pub. I'd be truly astonished if the pub were making a whole separate low-sugar, healthy menu for the school dinners tbh. And, for the small number of kids they cater for, I doubt they'd bother doing it if they were also having to be constantly audited and spot-checked.

I was so jealous of my brothers school lunches. he went to an academy..he got his menu choices 2 weeks in advance with a shitload of options. You could mix and match anything on the menu and there were many options..and he said it tasted pretty fresh too. Hell one day he got the option of a bloody rump steak.

I live in Derbyshire and the schools that are too small to have a dedicated kitchen have their dinners delivered from another school kitchen. So the same rules apply. It was certainly like that in the last school I worked in and there were around 90 children there. I've not heard of a pub doing dinners for a school, I suspect the arrangements would be different as the school would source directly rather than the local authority.

Maybe it's just us then. I did think the pub lunch thing was a bit odd when we moved here (but kind of cool). They do a lunch for the whole school (all 35 of them ) on Fridays and only for the KS1 kids all week. I don't know who does the lunches for the other tiny local primaries.
I don't mind if they are serving normal desserts with actual sugar in anyway because there is no major hypocrisy going on. They have one (rather random) rule about school lunches - crisps are only allowed on Thursdays . No rules about chocolate, biscuits etc. The school regularly has bake-offs and cake sales, the cookery club makes cakes and biscuits, sweets are given out by children on their birthdays. Do other schools ban all that kind of thing too?

Dd is in an academy. No policing of lunchboxes I posted earlier in the thread that dd gets jealous of friends, who have junk packed lunches. For dinners they have 3 options i.e. A veggie or meat option or jacket potato with cheese or beans. It's a standard meal so no chance of double or treble carbs. Some kids also bring chocolate for snack. This is a primary btw.

You need to chill out. Who has time to write about this stuff!

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Millystokes214 who has time to resurrect zombie threads!