To think this is unfair re school dinners/packed lunches?

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Dd is 7. Her school is supposed to be a 'healthy eating school', she used to have school dinners for a while but stopped because they were quite expensive and she didn't really like them.

I always send her with what I think is a relatively healthy lunch, nearly always has a piece of fruit etc
Well on Friday I decided for a treat, it isn't like she has this every day, to give her some of her Christmas chocolate in her lunch.

She came home from school with the chocolate untouched, she said she hadn't been allowed to eat it, and a note about making healthy choices with a link to stufd about that on the government website.

Obviously I wasn't too pleased about that, kind of felt like school were undermining my authority?
But then we had DD's friend over that evening- she has school dinners and apparently for school dinners that day they had fishfingers, chips and fucking cake with custard!!

Found this out as we fed DD friend Friday evening and she didn't eat much as she had had such a large lunch!!

I'm all for healthy eating but AIBU to think that if DD is not allowed chocolate then the school dinner kids should not be allowed cake? Surely that's a lot more unhealthy and also double standards?

I told my dc to refuse to give it and eat it first tbh, the school arent allowed to snatch food out of a child’s hand i told dc to be assertive . Their lunches are healthy and balanced a little treat like a small homemade chocolate muffin is fine as far as I’m concerned

This argument comes up time and time again it's getting boring now. You know the rules,so why can't you just give your child the chocolate after school? Or find another school that doesn't have a healthy eating policy, if her having a treat during school hours matters that much to you.

I told my dc to refuse to give it and eat it first tbh, the school arent allowed to snatch food out of a child’s hand i told dc to be assertive . Their lunches are healthy and balanced a little treat like a small homemade chocolate muffin is fine as far as I’m concerned
That's right teach them that the rules don't apply to them while they're young ,whilst making life even harder for our poor teachers

Ha ha with all these restrictions, teachers will soon find all these kids huddled in corners trading sweets like drugs!

The thing is that you know you’re sensible and that your kid eats healthily but there will be parents who feed their kids crap and give them chocolate bars everyday, and if the school let your kid eat a chocolate bar then what’s to stop the other kids from saying X had chocolate so why can’t I?

Well done to these schools for stigmatising food and contributing to eating disorders.

When I was at school my packed lunch was a sandwich, packet of crisps and a chocolate bar and I managed to escape being overweight.

Ive no problem with a list of foods that can’t be in packed lunch (working in schools I’ve seen some shocking lunches) but it’s ridi when the school dinners provide crap for dessert

Desserts this week are

Flapjack
Jelly and custard (either high sugar or sugar free and full of shit)
Tropical Crumble, toffee sauce and custard
Chocolate Cake and (drum roll...) custard
Oath-choco-orange Biscuit and milkshake

How the fuck are these any better then the mini pack of digestive biscuits, chocolate covered rice cake , chocolate flapjack or Freddo that have been confiscated this week from various kids lunchboxes

I am all for teaching kids to be healthier but when the school think they have the right to undermine you and then not practice what they preach, I'm at a loss

This

My daughter takes a Freddo every day to primary. My son at senior has chips available daily and has burger every day for lunch. There’s no parity across the schools.

Our policy is quite clear, have you seen the obesity crisis in this country? In my city s THIRD of kids are starting high school overweight. While you may do it as a treat, plenty of parents would give crap every day without a thought, a policy reiterates the need for a healthy diet and protects the children with parents who don't think. You could just give her the chocolate when she gets home. I don't do packed lunches but even I know chocolate can't be in it!!!

@hedgehog80 and people wonder why teachers are having trouble maintaining discipline in schools. It is parents like you that cause the problem.

@Imustbemad00 "School meals are based on a healthy balanced diet. Children need sugar and fat in their diet which is why puddings are part of the school menu. They won’t have cake everyday, maybe once a week, and they are lower in sugar than you would think. "

I shall copy and paste my nephews school menu:

Week 1
Homemade Assorted Muffins CAKE
Homemade White Chocolate & Raspberry Cookies
Fruit Salad & Ice-Cream
Oaty Fruit Crunch & Custard
Apple & Banana Cake CAKE

Week 2
Fruity Flapjacks
Fruit Jelly
Lemon Drizzle Cake CAKE
Apple Crumble & Custard

Rice Crispy Cakes

Week 3
Vanilla Cookies
Trifle
Chocolate Sponge and chocolate custard CAKE
Eve's Pudding and Custard CAKE
Carrot Cake CAKE

That's more than once a week, and is not enough to say "well SMs are sugar free" - well so ar emy cakes that I make...

Well done to these schools for stigmatising food and contributing to eating disorders.

hahaha!

It has now been extensively proven that giving unlimited access to junk food and sugar to your kids is exactly what causes obesity and health problems.
Parents who give a healthy diet and police the food they are given from birth give them healthy habits for life.