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?

Ridiculous to ask kids not to bring in foods other people are massively allergic to?

We will soon send kids to school with just water and dry bread.
Victorian time here we come.

Im so pleased my kids dont go to school anymore their adults now thank god.
I would not cope or keep up with the demands of a school or anything related.
As poster said above dry bread and water cheese if your lucky jam if its xmass.
Worlds gone mad.

I think it's the Pepperami, maybe mustard or sulphites which are 2 of the 14 specific allergens on the official lists.

I just said how times have changed. Well they have.

My DD made it through the whole of her school life
1993 - 2005, without any mention of what her or anyone else was eating.
I fed lots of her friends along the way and there were endless parties.
The only thing I remember was my DD hating egg sandwiches and one of her friends puzzled by the addition of some parsley 😄

I honestly don’t remember anyone having an allergy to food or choking on a pepperami.
But like I said, times have obviously changed 🤷🏻‍♀️

What bread was it? Plain brown bread or brown seeded bread/granary type?
Obviously I'm not sure what their reasoning is but sometimes if there's an allergy nut wise seeds can be caught up in that as it's also a known allergen.
Eg my workplace bans nuts and seeds.

Ah ok, just seen this - ignore my post then 🙂
Hopefully they respond soon

What does everyone do about butter in a sandwich.

Probably the ham 🙄

Likewise no one of my generation had an allergy.
No idea what I would have eaten as a vegetarian on packed lunches in those days.

A leading theory is that we are too hygienic these days and parents and kids are simply not exposed to as many germs.

Do people have an allergy to ham?

Not as unhealthy as a pepperami 😂

Oh for goodness sakes a child eating dairy in the same room as someone with a dairy allergy is not dangerous! As long as the allergic child doesn't consume any. It's not like a nut allergy 🙄
OP there's no nuts in your DC's lunch so just ignore it. Sounds like a dozy staff member being a bit thick and conflating airborne nut allergies with a dairy allergy that only applies when consumed..

@augustusglupe So you're saying dangerous allergies didn't exist 'in your day?' I can assure they bloody well did! Only they didn't have a fecking clue what was wrong with the child and as a result, the child was often dead before they made it to school age - result? Schools were filled with children without any dangerous allergies

Depends on the severity - I definitely react to airborne milk powder.

@GoodAfternoonGoodEveningAndGoodnight Airborne milk powder?! Well that must be awful. However I think you'll be just fine as I've yet to see any milk powder which was airborne..

No, noone that you knew had allergies.
Of course they existed!
I had allergies in the 80s as a child, it just took ages to find out what was wrong with me though.

Hot chocolate powder, just off the top of my head?
Also if there's a large amount of chocolate around which I have been around in the past then yes I do I react even if I'm not eating it.

My kid's primary school only allows water.
Juices and drinks are confiscated and returned at home time along with any cakes, biscuits, bars etc.

I'm curious: Did you respond before you'd even finished reading the OP?

Just realised what I said there.😳
Exactly.
No one that I knew!….

I'm glad mine went through school without these strict rules as I would have kicked up a huge fuss.

If anyone has an allergy that severe they should be segregated at lunch and break times or the parent takes the out of school
At lunch time so that the rest of the pupils, the majority can eat normally.

Jeeze, you would have been arrested for child cruelty/neglect if you fed your kids the kinds of lunches we had at school. It was hard enough when my kids were little, but this is insane. You need a crystal ball!

What is a frube?

And what’s wrong with a chocolate biscuit exactly? Everything in moderation. An apple has twice the amount of sugar as a Frube but we’re not banning those 🤦‍♀️