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....

Op if you didn't realise that tomato (cooked) and tomato (raw) are very common issues for many many children and not a few adults then you're in for many many shocks.

The idea of sending a 3YO with prawns in a lemon grass skewer must make even the most MNy MNer balk. Surely.

I hate raw tomatoes but love raw cherry tomatoes

Can I ask a stupid question? What counts as shellfish? I've eaten shrimp fried rice before, but never lobster or crab or mussels or anything like that. Have I eaten shellfish? What's scampi?

Why don’t schools allow kiwis?
Luckily sons nursery shares catering with the school so has cooked dinners- else he’d be demanding chicken satay skewers and sweet chilli prawns 🙄

I've just googled them, never eating them again they're like something from another planet! Awful looking things.

How have you eaten something that you didn't know what it looked like?

Maybe if you've only ever eaten shelled prawns you don't know what the full thing looks like? Maybe.

pourmeaglassofmilk

Hoping you don’t work at the pre school. To cut a cherry tomato in half, is a choking hazard and dangerous.

They should be on quarters, as should grapes and also sausages.

I have heard sausages not being cut up properly and of children choking on them too.

Apologies for typo errors

Op if you didn't realise that tomato (cooked) and tomato (raw) are very common issues for many many children and not a few adults then you're in for many many shocks

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Why would I have come across this when I don't know anyone with this particular issue?

To those saying it’s one of the 14 allergens and therefore shouldn’t be sent in, so is milk, gluten, eggs and fish, amongst others. Surely unless there was a child who had a severe allergy to something, people wouldn’t expect a ban on all those items would they?

Why would I have come across this when I don't know anyone with this particular issue?

Because I assume you don't live in complete isolation and read stuff. I mean I don't know any soldiers but I know soldiers exist. I don't know anyone with a shellfish allergy but I know it's an issue for some people

This thread is absolute comedy gold.

@sneakygremlins

Prawns, shrimp and scampi, (which is usually made from prawns), are shellfish. I think scampi used to be monkfish, which isn’t a shellfish.

Mussels, scallops, oysters, crab and lobster are shellfish too.

If you add squid into the mix then you have seafood.

My two adult DDs both disliked raw tomatoes when they were children and still dislike them now; it's a combination of both texture and taste.

Don't know why anyone would be surprised some children don't like tomatoes. Don't most of us have things we don't like?

I can't believe people are talking about seafood as if it's some sort of exotic delicacy! and I can't imagine a child not like tomatoes or tomato based sauces, what do they eat? What about spaghetti bolognese and pizza and chilli con carne? All standard kids food!

OP, my DD used to regularly take prawns to nursery for lunch. There were never any issues. The only comment I ever had was a teacher saying she always hoped DD wouldn't finish her lunch so she could hover it up! :)

Yep. I had to Google. I have eaten prawns all my life but never seen a full one. And heres something else, I thought I was eating them raw too! I didn't know until the googling that they were not pink until cooked! Who actually buys these full raw prawns with their legs and eyes on, and where from?

bobstersmum From the fishmonger! They cook in a few minutes. When I was a little girl it was our Friday night treat to have a big bag of shell on prawns from the fishmonger (also, olives from the Italian deli and smoked salmon. I guess my parents were peak MN back in the 90s). They do taste better than the peeled ones, plus you get to suck out the brains which are delicious.

bobstersmum

Fishmongers and I have seen them in asda when home.

If they are king prawns I normally do them on the BBQ or optigrill. I admit I also like to fry them in a little Evo and lemon juice on a slow heat.

NeffSaid

plus you get to suck out the brains which are delicious

It's the best part

The reverse food snobbery on this thread is pathetic.

Agreed! Prawns cost a couple of quid in the supermarket. No idea why people are acting do ridiculous about them.

"Who actually buys these full raw prawns with their legs and eyes on, and where from?"
Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl. Occasionally Iceland.

Vacuum packed mussels are excellent and cheap from the same sources too.

“You have failed as a weaner”
“I’ve never seen soldiers but I know they exist”

This thread is BONKERS and I love it.

I think I’m exotic when I give mine brioche

plus you get to suck out the brains which are delicious

Urghh this is probably why I failed as a weaner - the mere thought of it

@petrolpump28 😂😂