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.

According to Mumsnet grapes are supposed to be cut up so your child doesn't choke.

I must admit I would cut the grapes. My biggest fears are spiders, grapes and button batteries.

My dd and ds have grapes today too - uncut!

I moved to England when I was 16, I bloody miss Murray's Scotch pies from Perth where I grew up, oh and Snowball sponge cakes, and Empire biscuits sob.

Ds also has one of those Benton box things- Sistema?

For the Scotch Pie lovers in England, check your local Morrisons, they often have them in, if not, Crombies in Edinburgh deliver throughout UK (and their Bridies are fucking awesome!) Quite like a Scotch Pie but would sell my soul for a good Bridie :)

Don’t feel guilty! It’s a sausage role not crack cocaine! I’m sure you know all about how to give your child a healthy diet, it’s the big picture that matters not the occasional thing like this.Don’t bow to the pressure (real or perceived) of the lunch box police or the nutritionist mums.Trust yourself,it’s all about common sense 😃

YANBU. I hope the sausage roll isn't wrongfully detained.

Making your own yoghurt is v popular on a pressure cooker FB group I'm on. Though I think you have to buy yoghurt to make your first batch.

DC school allow uncut grapes but not sausage rolls. I once put one of those mini brownie bites in DDs lunchbox and it was confiscated as chocolate items are not allow. The pudding on the school dinners that day was chocolate brownie (full sized) with chocolate custard

Take sausage roll, use a skewer to make long holes, poke carrot sticks in the holes, looks like homemade sausage and veggie pastry, contains veg, school will find a hard time complaining - especially if you wrap it into a parcel with greaseproof paper - looks very artisan...

The crackers will be soft by lunch time, in with the sausage roll.

But sausage rolls dont need to be in the fridge. They are not all in the fridge at the supermarket What sausage rolls are not on chiller cabinets at Tesco?

My autistic DD only ever eats sausage rolls for every lunch at school, and she's on school dinners, they're serving her that so I can't see them complaining about a one off sausage roll in a lunch box.

I personally have never seen a sausage roll out of the chiller at my local supermarket (Sainsburys)!

Chickychoccyegg

my dd(13) regularly takes a sausage roll, crisps and bar of chocolate

That’s not great though tbh.

They are always in the fridge but I wouldn't worry about one in a lunch box for a few hours.

Greggs sausage rolls from Iceland freshly cooked that morning were my eldest favourite packed lunch. As long as the rest of the lunch is healthy I can't see the problem.

At our morrisons deli counter there is often a display of non chilled items like sausage rolls, steak bakes, pies. They are on a table in the middle of the aisle in paper bags. For enclosed pastry items designed to be cooked and eaten on the same day, they dont need to be in the fridge. Gregg's dont chill their baked pastries so you will often get room temperature food from there

The food police and judgement on this thread is hilarious, thanks everybody for the giggle!

I particularly enjoyed the "fruit isn't fruit if it's in a cake" sidetrack, the diversion into plastic use judgement, and the poster who thought that using yoghurt to make pizza dough would result in a soggy pizza! So many wonderfully judgemental nuts! 😂

Of course it is ,its not like its an everday thing.
I do get fed up with the food police,ive had the same and I told them face to face that you do the teaching and I will do the parenting end of. Heard nothing since. The school my c goes to serves up the most un-healthy meals to the degree that I told them she wont be having school dinners and she will be taking a packed lunch as of today.

In our household we get through around 80 sausage rolls a week. My DC always had sausage rolls in their lunch boxes.

I've just had a Greggs sausage roll for my breakfast! Had to drag my miserable in pain self down to the drs and that was my treat. Will report back if said lard filled pastry of evil immediately clogs my arteries and sudden death becomes inevitable. Well DH will, I'll be dead.

Looks good to me OP also I have the same lunch box as your daughter, not sure what that says about me...

Love a good lunchbox thread, very entertaining. (Once he's in secondary he won't go hungry as, round our way, they all seem to eat a bag of crisps on the way to school).

I love that the OP is giving her child a sausage roll because there's no bread in the house and yet people are suggesting things like pasta with a little creme fraiche 😂 bloody love me a sausage roll, I've seen far worse in a lunch box!

I know this will be a shocker, but we don't have sausage rolls in America. I'd never heard of them until I got on MN.

I feel thoroughly deprived now.

You must make some MissConductUS, you are missing out.