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....

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’.

Because the OP decided it wasn't a problem?

British people are hilarious about food. This thread is hilarious. The idea that prawn are a class signifier is hilarious. Same goes for avocado, hummus and sushi which also seems to raise ire when people suggest their children enjoy them.

All of the above can be purchased really cheaply at most supermarkets and even some forecourts! It is not fancy food! It's just food. Unprocessed food. Plenty of toddlers like unprocessed food because that is what they are used to, because that is what they are offered at home.

It is not a status symbol or a stealth boast to feed your children unprocessed food during the relatively short stage where you have all of the say in what they eat. It's a good idea and more people ought to try it, then we might not have the problems with health and obesity that we do!

welshgirl you should’ve seen the calamari thread! The poor OP.

I absolutely love this thread! The gnashing of teeth over a 3 year old wanting some prawns is hilarious. At the age of 3 my 2 dd's would ask for hoummus, olive tapenade, falafel, feta, sundried tomatoes, olives, gyoza, calamari and prawns and would gouge my eyes out for smoked salmon. I am pretty sure dd1 could tell me what she had for lunch the second friday in May 5 years ago. They just ate what we ate because it was on our plates.

Its ok though my 4 yo DS will pretty much only eat cereal, bread and peanut butter and strawberries at the moment and could mainline pesto straight into his veins. So we aren't that posh or have notions (although he loves calamari because he thinks its onion rings, he eats it with ketchup though) . He will request what he wants for his playschool lunch when we make them the night before, he would definitely lambaste me or dh if we didn't put the "right" crackers or sandwich in the next evening after school. Why is it expected that children either don't know their own minds or don't actually remember things?

If my dd's thought they could bring in prawns for school lunch they would but they haven't a fridge. OP you have done absolutely nothing wrong here. Of course if you can provide a requested lunch as it is safe to do so you would. I like deciding what my lunch is going to be and look forward to it, my kids do too!

Actually the thought that prawns are wholesome and unprocessed is amazing, not if they are Vietnamese or Thai farmed ones.

Vandree I know right? Imagine being such a sad insecure fuck that you get your knickers in a twist because someone else feeds their child something you deem to be posh. Maybe they should take the chip off their shoulders and just feed that to their kids instead of being so desperately insecure they can’t help but try and denigrate someone else.

Imagine being so sad you take the piss out of a little girl who has a preference for what she wants in her lunch (looking at you, derxa)

This thread has horrible echoes of that feta and broad bean thread from months ago. A chorus of ‘OMG why would you cook that, my kids wouldn’t touch it, they only eat spaghetti hoops’. So narrow minded with a nasty side of reverse snobbery.

Make sure to stock caviar just in case, though.

at the idea that prawns are sophisticated.

This has to be my favourite post of the entire thread.

Snobbery and reverse snobbery in two sentences!

Vandree but why do you feel the need to post a list of things your kid eats? I'm genuinely puzzled by why people do this on MN. Sometimes with great detail, including the times things are eaten.

I'm as puzzled as this as I have been as to why the thread has been taken over by a class food battle.

It was actually originally a question about allergies not food snobbery because, as we all know, prawns are pretty average in the good food / bad food stakes. Neither one nor the other.

I hope the OP is taking a light-hearted view of how this has panned out. And I hope the ham salad went down well. Maybe you should start a thread on your dd's 'dish of the day' ...

Cosy- I'm finding this hilarious it's keeping me awake in work

Cosy I think she just posted a list of foods that most MN sneer at when in reality, most children eat them.

Cosy, it was literally just foods that have been sneered at on past threads as an example that most people and their kids eat normally as part of a varied diet and those mocking the OP's child should mock mine too.

I don't see how is a food class issue unless someone (you?) make it one. If you want to put a "class" on it I am working class and grew up in a council house, my parents would be classed as working class. But then I am Irish and we don't have anything like the class division obsession here really, there is a bit of snobbery in some areas of course though. Its just food . People the world over eat different things and like different things. Half of my dd's school class are muslim or polish, they eat a different lunch to my kids. My dd's loved perogi's so much after having them in their friends house they have them regularly at home now. Prawns are just bog standard food, no need for sneering

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The thread started about allergies and quickly descended into food class division or snobbery but not on my side thanks

This thread is crazy, I teach in a nursery, kids have had the odd prawn sandwich (definitely not posh!), packed lunches are kept in the fridge (some also have ice packs), packed lunches are usually minority with school lunch for the rest, and children can be normal, well adjusted, engaged with nursery but know what they like for lunch & be upset if it's not what they thought it was! When you're three & you're looking forward to something you really like & it's not there, well, that's a big thing!

Make sure to stock caviar just in case, though.
grin at the idea that prawns are sophisticated.

This has to be my favourite post of the entire thread.
Snobbery and reverse snobbery in two sentences!

That was the point...

perfectly I think everyone was bemused by his comment all round. Even in the pre internet days the impact and speed at which it destroyed the business was pretty startling.

Cosylulu, because I don’t know what the OP’s child’s name is.

Yes Casanova, XH was a jeweller at the time and was completely speechless. Talk about business suicide!