To think this school lunch is a choking hazard?

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A picture from Facebook from a local school. The red grapes don't look cut lengthways, I'm guessing due to being almost perfect spheres.

Pizza, potatoes and bread? Send a packed lunch in, the fruit is the nicest looking bit of that lunch

No it isnt a choking hazard.

The lunch is crap though! Theres no vegetables!

And why potatos with pizza? Bet they serve lasagne with chips too!

Kids can choke on so much more than just food... It's impossible to eradicate all risks. After all most of us have survived a childhood without getting their grapes cut. But it looks unhealthy indeed

My ds was regularly given a baked potato with rice and bread at school. He went onto packed lunches... You can always do a packed lunch instead.

If it's a taster session it may explain the random lunch items.

I knew this was about grapes before I even opened the thread.

Would be easier and safer to give them easy peel oranges, that's what I got when I was little.

Oh come on, it's more like carb tapas.

I see half a slice of baguette, a tiny slice of pizza and a couple of small potatoes. It's only triple carbs if there are actually three portions of carbs, which there isn't.

Mmmm carb tapas tbh i think people are far too pre ocuppied with carbs children need carbs it isn't an adult lunch, I just don't think new potatoes go with pizza but I guess it looks healthier than chips.

Just cutting themlengthways isn’t enough anyway - they need to be quartered so there’s no round section that can cause a blockage.

I chop grapes properly for my two (third on the way) and it’s nothing to do with pfb in my opinion, it’s common sense

Jesus wept.

What if your child was running in the playgroung, and the friction from their shoes kicked up a small stone, which then sprang into the air, missing the child’s teeth and going straight into the mouth, thus lodging itself in the windpipe.
I don’t know how you sleep at night if you worry this much about those cut grapes.

Pizza and potatoes??

Also my ds2 would hoover that quantity of food up as a pre lunch amuse bouche.

Kids should be able to eat whole grapes. Do you cut up blueberries OP?

That's a carb-fest, isn't it?

Why all the mocking?

A five-year-old boy choked while eating grapes at an after-school club. Despite first aid, the grape could not be dislodged and the child had a heart attack and died.

Grapes should be chopped in half lengthways and ideally in quarters.

www.capt.org.uk/News/why-are-grapes-so-dangerous

Why all the mocking?

Because the grapes are cut up! Jeez!

Highfever the mocking is because you can clearly the see the grapes have been sliced lengthways. They just happen to be very spherical grapes.

Only cut lengthways not into quarters. Still a choking hazard.

When do people stop cutting grapes not mocking just asking I can't remember cutting them for dc but I do it for work but they are under 4

aw - stop teasing op

there was a big campaign about cutting grapes in half up to the age of 5 because of choking risk - which are different than other foods due to its shape and the shape of an airway.

Luckily the grape is cut so there isn't a problem, but i'd be expecting EYFS to cut grapes up.

Grapes are a massive choking hazard, yes even to those amazing children who know how to chew, whilst the rest of us taught our children to swallow food whole of course.

There are cases of children choking on grapes in school and dying, so I think they should be cut. It would have bothered me OP, more than the carbs that posters keep banging on about. Clearly that's more important here.

You’re right OP. The grapes should be puréed

Joking aside, the school day is chocked full of sweat inducing hazards. It’s your job to make your DC resilient enough to deal with then to stay safe. In the meantime don’t over think it, it’ll drive you round the bend.

You would NBU if the grapes weren’t cut... but they are cut.

I really hate the derision when people start talking about cutting up grapes. The size, shape and texture are almost designed to block a child’s windpipe and once they’re in almost impossible to get out.

Do you also mock those who refuse to use cot bumpers and put babies to sleep on their backs? Or won’t smoke in a house or car with a child? Or those who prefer to use medicine instead of leeches?

“Oh back in my day, we just gave a baby a lump of asbestos to chew on and they were all fine”

Idiots.

Pssssst Anon, look at the picture again, the grapes are cut.

Yep, clearly cut grapes..

Doesn't look enough to feed a sparrow there!