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.

As a teacher I'd ban hard boiled eggs. They smell gross. PLEASE not in my school. A sausage roll from time to time? Fair enough.

I’ve got Linda McCartney veg sausage rolls in the freezer which the DC sometimes take.
Obviously I stick a large sign on the that they are virtuous sausage rolls and definitely not Greggs.

Yuk soggy yoghurt pizza

Op, it's a sausage roll. I've never met a kid that doesn't eat them. It's fine

Off topic but always amazed at the quantity of food people state when talking about lunch boxes. Mine went right through school with a piece of fruit for recess and a vegemite sandwich (lightly spread on good quality low GI bread) for lunch. None ever hungry or wanted more. Had a canteen lunch roughly once every 2 months when bread unexpected low.

Genuine lunch for a 4 year old at nursery. 1 mars bar, 2 creme eggs, 1 packet of salt and vinegar crisps, 1packet of pom bears, a large punnet of strawberries. Pretty much anything else looks good in comparison.

I'm surprised they ate it all and weren't sick!

DS has food aversions. Every day he has either Nutella or peanut butter spread very thinly on a single slice of crustless bread folded over to make a sandwich, 3 mini cocktail sausages, an apple, and some ready salted crisps. No variations are tolerated except for a couple of weeks ago when, unknown to me and fuck knows why, he dumped the lot out into the kitchen bin and took a whole green pepper instead. I got a "what the hell is your kid doing...?" phone call from the school office and had to pay for a school lunch which he didn't eat.

All the convenience and none of the guilt - vegan sausage rolls from Aldi! I haven't eaten meat for year, but my husband and kids assure me that they are almost indistinguishable from your bog-standard meaty sausage roll although the pastry is nice and flaky rather than the claggy stuff you normally get on a regular one. My hard-to-please son loves them and they have made packed lunches and picnics a lot easier!

Oooh, sausage roll, chips and beans, one of my favourite dinners which I am so having tomorrow.

"I'd rather be a hypocrite than an arsehole"
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Not considering the environmental impact because "life is too busy" is just not OK.

Ps
The pizza is fine and surprisingly yogurt (homemade using locally sourced raw milk) and SR flour bought in bulk makes a good dough that freezes perfectly well
No I don't have a kaftan
I'm more than happy to be the laughing stock of this thread to make a point

My teenagers have a sausage roll (or 2!) most days as a snack at school as well as their school dinner!
Only on MN could there be sausage roll controversy 😂

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

A sausage roll is absolutely fine. Better than bread every day

What you listed seems enough protein-wise without the sausage roll. I would have left that out but added a more filling pudding thing. Days when you don't have the right stuff in are tricky though. I try and keep an unopened malt loaf at the back of the cupboard for emergencies or knock up flapjack or banana or apple or raspberry muffins etc at 6am . Not smug, just disorganised, but normally have flour, eggs, oil and sugar in....use whatever ancient apples or bananas I have hanging around or frozen berries from freezer.. Takes about 10 mins to mix up and oven does the rest while I run around ironing shirts and de-crumpling PE kit. Makes me feel better to shove home made junk food in than shop bought junk - don"t know why!

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

So fucking true.

It's a sausage roll not poison.

@trebla I'd just back away from this one. No one has an issue with doing their bit or saying they dont have time. Tbf the op didn't drive to the shop and has utilised food she already has. Sometimes look for the positive.

yogurt (homemade using locally sourced raw milk)
Of course it is @Trebla. We could have guessed you made your own yoghurt from raw milk but thanks fo confirming.

OP I wouldn't worry so much about the school lunch box police. The MN ones on the other hand.....

@Trebla That pizza recipe is genius, I've just looked it up! Thanks!

You've asked in the wrong place here OP. MN IS the lunchbox police.
I think the occasional sausage roll is fine.

It sounds fine. And the rest of the items sounds like it balances out.

@Dieu oatcakes!!!cheese ones are great, they are going on shopping list.
Her school does not allow jam, peanut butter (allergies) and I'd be shot if I sent Nutella in!

Dd has vetoed boiled egg as she said classmates call her smelly 🤣

@BlueEyedBengal, rice is now considered to be the worst type of carbs, because it gives the biggest insulin resistance spike. It could be that.

"School have vegetarian sausage roll on their menu . Apparently its gross"
The Pound Bakery's Vegetarian sausage rolls are fab.

Love a microwaved sausage roll dipped in ketchup. "" mine was mayo or brown sauce.

But not anymore because I've given up processed carbs.

I was brought up on sausage rolls, Iceland's (newly opened in the 70's) cheese and onion pasties and on special occasions, Vol-au-vents. We survived.

@Trebla what happens to the babies whose milk you are stealing? It doesn't matter about 'locally sourced' you're still contributing to the biggest planet killer, the dairy trade.

There's really interesting discussions around if Vegans can keep their own chickens etc on Vegetarian and vegan forums, which explains it well.

Much debated lunch

There's nothing wrong with a sausage roll. Yanbu.

Oh my god, OP! GRAPES! Don't you know they're basically just little sugar bombs...?

Looks lush.

Looks good to me!
People are nuts about food on here.

I envy your uncut grapes. Lunchbox police here make you halve them- for teens ffs.