To wonder what is dangerous about my child’s lunch

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I received a message from school today saying my child’s lunch contained a prohibited item and to please review the policy “as there are children with severe allergies and it’s dangerous not to comply”

I don’t usually provide packed lunches - DC has school meals, but they did like todays meal options.

Ive responded and asked what the item was but waiting for a response, but I’m confused - it’s clearly a nut free school but I can’t see anything else anywhere about other banned foods

the packed lunch contained:

• ham sandwich (with butter) on brown bread
• apple
• frube (strawberry flavour)
• carton of own brand apple juice
• Pepperami
• babybel

any ideas what could be the problem or Aibu to think they’ve mistaken the ham as peanut butter or something ridiculous?

Oh! I've just read it was the frube, d'oh!

Be reasonable.

Perhaps the school or some other parents were offended by the fact that one of their number had gone to such time, thought, effort and expense to provide such a well balanced and nutritious meal.

Or perhaps a teaching assistant's cousin once had a pen pal allergic to Tupperware.

I wouldn't dance round the houses as that would invite more nonsense. A reply such as "total crap" would compel them to supply the necessary info.

Thanks for saving us all from a lifetime of unhealthiness.

You are amazing, well done

The Smug Awards ceremony is imminent

@Rosestulips my pleasure and looking forward to it.

I think you get the most condescending poster on the thread award!

Bravo!

Where should I buy the appropriate small container? Would B&M be ok, or should I use John Lewis?

That looks a very sensible and balanced lunch.
Looking at other replies on here just proves that pretty well everything on there, SOMEBODY has an issue with it.
Specific personal allergies need to be respected but applied to everybody else with some common sense and factual information.

I'm thinking peperami as I know my sons school hated them in lunches saying it wasn't healthy.

All you had to do was READ OP posts to see it was a last minute decision. I’m sure with lots of notice she could have lovingly chopped 5 cubes of Gruyère and spooned some Greek yoghurt.

I’m just wondering how you could take account of every kind of allergy children in school might have and still feed your child. I cannot see anything overtly ‘dangerous’ but surely the school cannot exclude dairy as some have suggested

Sorry that was for @RosesAndHellebores not you @Behindthescenesnow

T'was the Frube.
Cancel the Frube

No worries @Rosestulips!

I'm so glad my kids are grown up & I don't have to deal with all this. Why is ordinary food suddenly 'dangerous'?

Why is ordinary food suddenly 'dangerous'?

I don't think it's "suddenly dangerous", just that there's more awareness of serious allergies now.

I think it's probably more awareness.
I'm also going to say some children with allergies maybe didn't make it as far as school.

When we're epipens invented?
How did people deal with anaphylaxis shock before them?

Wow. A splatter from a frube ?

I get the allergy but surely a lid yogurt can splatter as well

And if no yogs allowed they need to tell the school parents and put on website

D'ya think people can be arsed reading 480 posts? It pops up on my emails, I look, I answer.

The issue is frubes are messy, much more messy that normal yougarts.
Kids squeeze the tubes to get the yougart out. Which means kids end up with it on their hands, and then everything else they touch, seats, door handles, taps.

I can totally see why a school doesn't want to take that risk.

When the question is days old and something that clearly could be answered with a quick email to the school, probably best to at least click See All and scan the posts at the very least.

Actually this is helpful. A lot of people assume what they’re eating is healthy when in fact it isn’t, and (ultra)processed food has been completely normalised. I wish people wouldn’t get so defensive. It’s always possible to learn new things no matter how old you are or how long you’ve been doing something a particular way. No one is shaming anyone for it, just pointing out a fact - pretty much the whole lunch was processed/ultra-processed. And it’s so easy to make basic swaps, as the poster illustrated.

Yes, but completely ignored the OP so 🤷‍♀️

Very helpful of them not to actually say what the prohibited item was. 'Someone found a peanut and they demolished the school.'

What? Why? And w.t.f?

Ah, well thank you very much for giving me a detailed account of what I absolutely MUST do. Is the diagram in the post?