Are the packed lunches I provide really as outlandish as ds claims?

[notagainnellie]

I send some kind of wrap/sandwich with cheese spread, ham, tuna or hummus; a salad pot; sometimes a packet of Chedds or a cheddar stick; a piece of fruit or tub of fruit in Greek/natural yoghurt and a piece of malt loaf or, rarely, homemade muffin etc.

Occasionally I put treats like mini cheddars or - shock - something with chocolate on, but this would be a monthly, rather than weekly event. According to ds, no one has anything like it and he gets comments sometimes such as malt loaf being 'poo' or 'err' at his yoghurt pot. Everyone else has crisps, juice, something like a kitkat or mini roll, yoghurts in tubes and jam sandwiches are popular. Obviously kids will say that, but there is no policy on lunches at the school so it could well be true - I don't think he is making up the comments tbf.

I have looked into some of the items he has listed and am shocked by the salt and sugar content of them. I can't find any 'fun' type yoghurt that isn't full of crap and I can't bring myself to buy them for daily use. He's not that fussed and says he likes being 'different' , but I feel like he's going to get more and more bothered - he's 9 now and mentioning it more this year than ever before.

I'm not that strict about food, but I just don't think a lot of this stuff is suitable for daily use. AIBU to keep his lunches as they are?

My ds is at nursery, he is very picky with what he will eat (put in his mouth) I would love for him to eat any of the lunches mentioned in pp, and as he won't eat the lunches nursery provide this is what he will eat out of his lunch box, now remember i have said he is VERY picky, won't eat fruit, salad, etc. And I have tried EVERYTHING to try and get him to eat other varieties of food but if it's "wet" he won't touch it!

Chicken bites ( which I cook every morning)
Dairylea sandwich (which he will eat because he can't see the cheese)
Two biscuits
Cheddars or similar
And a barney bear ( which he will only eat the ears, arms and legs!)

He really is a funny lil sod!

Houmous seeded sandwich thin
Pear
Plum
Satsuma
Chunk of cheddar
Value fromage frais

I wish he would eat veg

My DD's school forbid any kind of sweets and crisps, except for whole-wheat biscuits, so it's normally sandwich with ham (we prefer brown bread) and a smoothie.
Children bringing sweets or crisps to school get a reminder from the Principal that this food is banned and against school regulations. I think it's a really great initiative and have absolutely no problem complying. They also get regular lessons on nutrition and healthy eating and healthy lifestyle is promoted through walks, playing outside (even though it costs me fortune in stockings and local disinfectants as DD keeps coming home with scrapped knees and elbows "Mum, can you please wash the blood from my shirt, I fell today.").

The individual malt loaves have 6 grams sugar and almost zero fat. Penguins have 10 grams sugar and 6 grams fat. im not googling instead of going to bed, honest