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.

Sausage rolls aren't all the same anyway some are crap, some are a nice bit of pork sausage in some decent, all butter puff pastry, especially if home made.

And I don't see how the crap ones are any different from a sandwich made of processed white bread, margarine or butter, cheese and ham. It's still processed meat, carbs, and solid fat...

It's fine. Mine have them most days. It's the same as a ham sandwich - wheat and meat and high in protein.

Sausage rolls are a doddle to make and then you know what's gone in! I buy the puff pastry readymade which is even easier, but buy the best.

Heck does 100% pork patties which you can form into shape. I grate a cooking apple, squeeze the grated apple dry, mix into the pork with freshly ground pepper and salt, roll up, brush with egg and into the oven. Fat or skinny, long or short to match appetites. I'd fight school over one of those being healthy now and again!

Maybe one for the thrifty home-bakers?

artisan scotch eggs

My eldest frequently takes slices of cold margarita pizza or breadsticks and cream cheese with a yogurt. Youngest has quiche/fruit/veg/rice cakes/hummous/quorn sausages. Anything but sandwiches for him.

I find it funny that pack lunches in school have to be basically quinoa, avocado, lettuce, and super healthy.

But - the school meals my children get provided with consist largely of:

Potato, pasta, sausages, fish fingers, chips, beans and then rounded off with cake!!!

Come on schools... You can do better!!

I remember when we used to all bin our lunches and sneak off to the chippy. And that was before the fat lunchbox police.

My kids lunches just have foods from each food group, so a couple of pieces of fruit and/or veg (eg. Carrot sticks and cut up grapes), some dairy (snack cheese/yoghurt), something starchy (usually half a sandwich), some extra protein (an egg, some cocktail sausages) and one or two treats (crisps, biscuits, cereal bar, chocolate, etc.) sometimes that ends up looking healthy and sometimes it looks unhealthy, but I'm more concerned with making sure they are full and getting a BALANCED diet over all. We don't have "bad" foods in my house, just food. Cake, ice cream, burgers, pizza, all on the menu. But then so are salmon, broccoli, bananas and muesli (or whatever). I hope that school don't undo that because it is a conscious decision not sloppy parenting.

DS's school serves sausage rolls on the rolling school dinner menu so I can't see why it would be an issue in packed lunch

It’s fine. We don’t eat meat but I’ve put cheese rolls in before.

I'm a lunchtime supervisor and see a lot worse than a sausage roll in packed lunches tbh

Is my child’s school the only one that offers a sausage as part of the school menu??! it’s offered at least 2 times in the 3 week rota!
I have worked in schools and been on school trips and believe me there is nothing wrong with a sausage roll!
One trip I remember a child turned up with a whole packet of Oreos - 12 biscuits that were instead of a sandwich!

^sorry I forgot the roll* school offers sausage roll

I buy the puff pastry readymade which is even easier, but buy the best.

@NearlyGranny don't you know this is MumsNet and you mustn't buy the puff pastry, you have to grow your own organic wheat and grind it into flour.

@Chloe9 totally agree!! Same here. I think it engenders a balanced and healthy attitude to food which hopefully will last a lifetime.

My son is autistic and my daughter is being assessed, looking like she's on the spectrum too, and she likes what she likes. In her lunchbox she'll have a small sandwich with chicken (usually chicken but occasionally ham) a small sausage roll (not the cheap shit ones as she doesn't like the taste of those), some cucumber slices, a little Tupperware portion of fruit (raspberries, strawberries, grapes and apple alternately). She also has a little treat which might be a Barney Bear cake thing, a cookie etc.

Yes, you read that right. She has a sausage roll every day. Shoot me now
😘😅 Genuinely not fussed if people don't think it's acceptable. She eats a balanced and healthy meal at home at night, is active and is at a healthy weight. Frequently chooses fruit for pudding instead of other options so overall makes good food choices herself.

Normally she eats up her whole lunch but on the odd occasions she's not eaten it all, it's usually the treat that she leaves. I assume that's because she eats it last and recognises when she's full-up. I'm beginning to wonder if she's actually my daughter to be honest as she will also stop eating a chocolate bar halfway through and says she's had enough......I mean who does that? Weird child.... (I jest about her being weird OBVS before the no-humour brigade pile on, I love the fact she's developing a really balanced attitude to eating and doesn't feel obliged to eat everything in front of her).

When my boys were at primary/junior school, there would be these messages in the school newsletter. Personally, I ignored them.

They had perfectly normal packed lunches with things they liked. If we'd ever been approached about anything to do with the contents, I'd have told them to bugger off.

Our two are healthy and happy and a normal weight, so that's good enough for me.