to not get this about pack lunches..

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son today was told in school he is not allowed to eat oreos at lunch time. as they are "chocolate." its hardly a flaming mars bar! and considering on the school menu os chocolate cake, ice cream etc. aibu to think ots ridiculous?

www.seahavenacademy.org.uk/Portals/0/Library/Documents/Menu/Seahaven%20Autumn%20GA%20menu.pdf?ver=2017-10-18-090320-690

This is the lunch menu of a school near me ... YUM and no cake !!

My son is adopted and came with us with food issues. School knew. He had packed lunch. He got told off for having a chocolate crepe in it. Guess what my daughter who has school dinners had for desert!

I don't believe it's a "right" to feed kids crap any more than it is to beat them. Parenting is a responsibility not just a collection of rights.

InAndOutPerson Thu 21-Jun-18 09:31:50
www.seahavenacademy.org.uk/Portals/0/Library/Documents/Menu/Seahaven%20Autumn%20GA%20menu.pdf?ver=2017-10-18-090320-690

This is the lunch menu of a school near me ... YUM and no cake !!

Why do they have pizza on their menu every day? Do the dinner staff monitor who has what to make sure kids don't have pizza everyday?

I bet they don't.

The schools here are more obsessed with packaging not the actual items in the lunch. However there are some serious issues with the lunches (or lack of) some kids bring:

i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/97305941/Unhealthy-lunch-packs-costing-2-marketed-to-children

www.google.com/amp/s/www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/09/five-years-on-lunchbox-differences-in-decile-1-and-decile-10-schools.amp.html

Hardly "obsessed" Braeburn 🙄 though hopefully not as landfill happy as the UK
And of course there is variance in the contents of meals - as there is in any country.

Haven't RTFT but we have the same "double standard" in school, we do packed lunches. Also school do quite a few talks on "healthy eating" which basically demonize (among other things) cake. Whilst serving them cake that day.

Cake is amazing, it is one of the happy things I associate with a celebration! I hate that they say they are down on cake and then feed the children it as if it was a day-to-day basic!

there are more important food concerns but cake hits a nerve

But why not keep these treats for home rather than home and school. If they were having a treat at lunch, snack and dinner, surely they would be eating far too much crap. Children of primary age are supposed to have a maximum of 27-30g a day. I’m not sure what a child of secondary age should be consuming.
1 Oreo which is 11g contains 4.1g sugar. Add that to the rest of the sugar your child will be eating throughout the day and you’ll find it is far too much.
I’m not saying cut out all the sugar but I’d Mach rather give my child a treat at home rather than school.

Always loved that you couldnt outsweets in but sugar,additive laden yogurt was good.Thats ok I used frozen frubes in summer to keep food fresh.

Frubes are about 11% sugar,
Oreos about 40%,
mini mars bar 61%

I haven't a problem with "sugar laden" yoghurt sticks...

I have a problem with yoghurt! I have to admit that I only discovered this recently. One frube contains 11g of sugar. My LO loves these. I was so surprised!

2 frubes contain 8.7g of sugar so 1 has only 4.35g

He won't be allowed Oreos but the children on school meals get burgers, pizza, chips and cake daily.

It's ridiculous.

Any Scots on here? Is a packed lunch still called 'a piece' or did the phrase vanish with the factories and shipyards?

I bought a bag of asda's version of 'fun' sized milky ways a couple of weeks ago.

When I opened them I was very shocked to see they were barely bigger than a fucking celebration/hero's chocolate.

I'd have no problem with my kid having one of these with a packed lunch.

But then I was brought up on packed lunches consisting of sandwich (cheese/ham/dairylea/jam/haslet etc), crisps, chocolate/biscuit, piece of fruit that usually went uneaten and a flask of squash. Or umbongo. With the occasional yoghurt to coat the insides of the lunchbox on the way home. #KidsOfThe80sWeren'tFat

A piece is a sandwich. Used to have a playpiece at break (a snack, normally crisps probably!)

@longwayoff Scot here, we still refer to it as a piece box or a piecey box.

Thank you unicorns and pixie. Haven't visited in many a year. Glad language diversity thriving, makes life much more interesting.

It’s never really occurred to me that it’s diverse, but I guess it is. I like local dialect, also think it’s culturally important.

Mrs Weasley I also work in a (state) school and can assure you there's no added salt and very little sugar in anything on the menu. Two days out of five the pudding is fresh fruit including watermelon, kiwi and pineapple so a good variety. Another day is yogurt and the remaining two are a joyless biscuit or flapjack. Occasionally they get something which actually tastes nice but it's only once in a while.

We don't inspect lunches other than a general rule of no chocolate bars or fizzy drinks. Penguins etc are fine. Even so, I recently helped one little yr1 girl to open her lunchbox and found that it contained a jam sandwich, two little bags of haribo and two chupa chups lollies. I alerted her teacher, who may or may not have spoken to the parents, I don't know, but nothing was said to the child and nothing removed from her.

Gosh Braeburns (hmm one of my fav Apples). Does NZ not provide lunch for low income children. Its been cut back but those on a low income here get free school meals. In one school near me its 1/3 of the school!

@demented sorry you’re right but for a 40g tube that’s still a huge amount.

School puddings have very little sugar in. This is why the children (and staff) rarely touch them!

Most of the kids at my school opt for fruit for pudding.

It is 11% - so 89% of it is not sugar.

Plain ordinary MILK itself is 5% sugar. Lactose.