Shell fish in nursery lunchbox

[Nicpem1982]

Posting for traffic really so apologies

Dd has started to have packed lunch at nursery and the guidance I was given was just send her with what she will eat although we're a healthy eating school.

She's asked for prawn and cherry tomato skewers for tomorrow which is fine for me but is shell fish on the no list like nuts normally?

Sorry new to this lunch thing....

We generally have a good selection of lunch bits and pieces as we all have packed lunch.

If we didn't have it then I'd tell her she couldn't have that, she knows she can't eat what we don't have like she can't eat cake for breakfast.

I assume by your question that you were hoping to get a "well we just pop to the shops" type of answer.... Sorry to disappoint we only shop one day a week and don't really do top ups and certainly not requests

Her issue as I previously said is of we agree it becomes set in stone

Make sure to stock caviar just in case, though.

at the idea that prawns are sophisticated.

Oh my, doesn't your DD have mature tastes - so sophisticated- you must be so proud. Stealth boast much?

No problem as you say straight in fridge but maybe in pot not skewer

so if you agree on prawns but then think " oh no its hot. that might not be suitable" there will be problems.
I am amazed that a 3 year old can ask for specific food, be disappointed if its not there and then talk about it at the end of nursery. I thought small children had a limited sense of time and were fairly easily distracted?
Anyway I hope all is well today with the ham salad. Sounds lovely.

I am amazed that a 3 year old can ask for specific food, be disappointed if its not there and then talk about it at the end of nursery. I thought small children had a limited sense of time and were fairly easily distracted?

What 3 year olds do you know?!

plenty. If the child asks for ham at say 7am, eats at 12. 30, discovers its cheese and is disappointed, retains this information and complains at 5/6pm that's quite a memory.

I'm surprised that people are so worked up about the prawns per se. I wouldn't send something like that in, because you cannot guarantee they will be kept cool enough. If a fridge is suddenly filled with lots of lunch boxes then it will take a while for it to cool down properly inside.

But at the idea of the prawns being an issue because they are fancy! I thought they had been a pretty staple thing for years hence Gerald Ratner's disastrous comment about the prawn sandwich.

petrol it’s really not. I’d actually be concerned if a 3 year old couldn’t remember that long.

Nicpem I am imagining your DD sitting on a tiny throne, wearing a tiara and issuing food diktats. 'Today ham salad shall be eaten at nurseries all around the land. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth if this order is not carried out!'

You’re a lovely person, aren’t you derxa?

I always thought that prawns were a bit crap personally.

I think she should up her stakes and insist on organic ham from the rump of the Queen's finest pig, homegrown tomatoes from her own tended garden, just a touch of lettuce from Monet's garden and bread that you personally kneaded wearing silver gauntlets for 24 hours.

Derxa- that's hilarious she is quite partial to a tiara

Bongo...... What sort of concerns would you have about a 4 year old who couldn't remember what he/she had to eat at lunchtime?

she is quite partial to a tiara Your DD knows what she wants in life. She'll go far.

I’d think it was unusual. I’ve just asked my 3 year old and she can tell me what she’s eaten for the last 4 days at each meal.

NotUmbongo I think it depends on the child. My dd has always been a bit 'spacey' and wouldn't care about what she had in a lunchbox. She's 16 now and nothing's changed. I doubt she could tell you what she had for dinner yesterday evening.

Mine wouldn't necessarily have remembered an ordinary lunch, but if they had been promised a treat they sure as hell would have done!

Why would you not just say ‘you know what, my lovely, I thought about it again and prawns might be a problem. I’ll pop something else in today and talk to nursery to check for another time’.

Would you have to say my lovely though?

I was always puzzled by that comment. I take it Gerald Ratner's not a practising Jew then?

Cosy, not if that is not of your particular vernacular. Maybe the person might say ‘hun’, ‘dahling’, ‘poppet’, ‘sausage’... whatever.

My DC have told me what they've had for lunch since they were 3.5. DD even tells me what she actually ate. At 3.5: "It was jacket potato with cheese but I only ate the cheese." Every time they had jacket potato with cheese for 1.5 years.

Mikkle entitled little git. 😇

Mikkle maybe just use their actual name?