Sausage roll in packed lunch?

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School lunch box police are out in force! Yesterday I received a generic email about "healthy foods" for packed lunches"

No bread in the house and really can't be bothered to drive to local Tesco. Is a sausage roll (Tesco one) OK for packed lunch?

A boiled egg, carrot sticks and grapes , stick of cheddar and 2 crackers included too.

The school lunch police are active in America too. There are some school districts that have tried to ban packed lunches as "unhealthy" when they really just want to hire more cafeteria workers and feed kids foods that mostly windup getting binned.

My school eventually refused the federal school lunch funding as the rules had gotten impossible to administer. For example, bread no more than three times a week. But that means they can't offer sandwiches everyday as there's no way of tracking which kids have had them. At the secondary school lots of kids walked off at lunchtime to buy food in the shops.

I’m a mid day meals supervisor. I wouldn’t worry about a sausage roll in one of the kids lunches, as a one off.

Dd had two little sausage rolls today from Asda 😱😱 she would have had more if I'd let her.

I'm not concerned about the sausage roll as much as the amount of packaging and litter that is going into some of these packed lunches.

It's not hard to do a batch bake and freeze stuff to go into lunches.

We do pizza slices (dough made from 1 cup natural yogurt, 2 cups SR flour).
Banana muffins
Chocolate Weetabix slices (made from the left over weetabix flakes in the packet)
Cookies

Plus an apple and carrots sticks.

Bake them as you run low (works out once a fortnight) and freeze. Packed lunches then take 2 mins to put together and and litterless.

There is now no excuse for not being aware of the impact of convenience foods wrapped in plastic.

I have 4 kids, my own company responsible for 18 people and my husband works FT. I dont have 'spare time'.

Its a case of planning.

@dementedpixie YABU giving your children scotch pies, totally unreasonable!

They should be given to me, not your children!

I'll PM my details :-)

Op, it's fine, sausage rolls are on sale in all supermarkets and don't have to be hidden behind those plain roll down blinds like cigarettes! So they can't be that harmful.

Grease not Grease! Grip get.a.grip.

Sausage rolls are a staple for picnics and lunches here, I like to dip mine or a cheese n onion pasty in tomato soup.
But fuck me I love a scotch pie or 2, I often treat myself to a fresh warm pair after the weekly shop and eat them in the car.

Mmmm sausage rolls.
I had gala pie today you know with the egg in that was lovely.
So yeah sausage be fine longs it’s not every day.

For goodness sake everybody can you calm down! Op said it was a one off as she didn’t have any bread so no harm really. I don’t think eating that sausage roll will cause a lifetime of problems for her child. She had veg and grapes in there plus no chocolate!

If you are worried now wait until dc get to secondary school as there is lots of crap/fast food on the canteen menu and the dc can throw their food away so you will never know what they have eaten. Teach them to have a relaxed, balanced view of food so they will be less likely to fall off the wagon...

Oohh I want a sausage roll & beans for dinner now. I had a crazy busy weekend & didnt have time to shop so we stopped at subway on the way to school to get their lunch, we also had timbits and hot chocolate for breakfast from Tim hortons. I think most of us eat a mostly healthy diet so the odd treat & off day isn't a problem.

If course it’s fine OP. Ignore the crazy.

And don’t post about food on here again, it brings out the nutjobs.

Trebla your ‘perfect parent’ medal is winging its way to you as we speak.

Ha ha oh @Trebla dfod

@PickAChew fruit baked in cake doesn’t count… it’s still cake. Reminds me of my assistant at work who goes through a bottle of honey in his tea every week and makes (awful) baked goods with dates and agave syrup and claims to be on a sugar free diet.

Where do you to be able to get scotch pies? I bloody love them but we can't get them where we live in England.

Nope, I'm not a perfect parent.

I just am acutely aware of the environmental impact of all of that packaging and prioritise on that.

Apologies if my baking threatens you....

Sausage rolls are surely among the junkiest of all junk foods? "Meat" processed beyond all recognition mixed with pastry does not a healthy lunch make! Tasty as can be but terrible for you. Hopefully OP it will go unnoticed as a once off but honestly there's no way I'd have food like that on offer for my DCs lunches.

No your baking doesn’t threaten me Trebla

The less said about chocolate weetabix slices the better I think.

But coming on a thread where the OP has asked a simple question to launch into a ‘its not hard to’ and then proceed with an epic pointless boast is kinda nobbish behaviour.

Totally typical of this site though.

Trebla, op did say it was a one off so she may live really well otherwise.

Do you feed your dc the same food every lunchtime or is that just an example?

If the meat is high quality (and this does exist) I don’t see anything particularly terrible about a sausage roll.

Fat is no longer the enemy people.

@Trebla so your children eat cold, damp ‘pizza’ made from yogurt and self-raising flour that you pull out of the freezer in the morning? How delightful for them. I’d also add that if we’re playing for the self-righteous gold medal, your non-vegan diet is just as problematic for the planet as a few sweet wrappers.

Terrible idea to microwave a sausage roll. Surely it goes all soggy? Either eat it cold or heat it in the oven, so it goes crisp on the outside. As for the high fat content, well, I doubt anybody has ever chosen a sausage roll as a health food, but once in a way, perfectly fine. Lots of worse things the kid could have.

Surely chocolate Weetabix slices would be banned in most overzealous primaries? Also do the Weetabix and chocolate not come in packaging?

Prepared to have things thrown at me, but what is a scotch pie?

@Treblabdobyou make your own yoghurt too? I’m assuming so since that comes in a plastic pot too.

@DimensionalShambler Ds2 is severely autistic so I'll be pleased with any fruit at all in his diet, if you don't mind.

Ooooh the sausage roll controversy on here!

Will report back if I've been arrested by lunch box police. 👍