To have some sympathy with the "Jamie Oliver Burgers through the fence" mothers?

[Fridayfeeling]

We got a letter home earlier this week asking not to put crisps, chocolate, sweets in our children's lunchboxes.

How about you Fu*k off and mind your own business - a mini roll never killed anyone (especially as part of a balanced diet) !

Good point duchesse. I think that's what I was driving at, but you've explained it much better than I did!

Coal! A fine source of carbon. Yum

Not forgetting the highlight of my debate, Foodfiend, where I condemn people for feeding their children on fossil fuels more commonly used for heating. I thought that bit particularly well argued...

Hee! I didn't even notice! We are clearly above spelling in our passion for debate.

Ditto all of expat's posts.

It is exceedingly hard to keep your dc on an even vaguely healthy diet when you are swimming against a tide of mothers doling out crisps, biscuits, cakes and sweets. I sometimes feel I'm regarded as some kind of crazed, obsessive cult member for trying to keep these items to a minimum in dd's diet. Heaven knows she's chunky enough already without letting her develop worse eating habits.

These same mothers are themselves either unhappily over-ample or on perpetual yo-yoing diets themselves - but there is no insight or irony in their position. Drives me potty.

I'm hoping dd's school has this kind of policy. As Belgo says - it will make my life a lot easier.

But I don't beleive it is that difficult acinonyx. Lunch boxes are one of the places where it is possible to be a strict as you want as they are a captive audience. They eat what you give them or they starve. Mine have 2 pieces of fruit, a wholemeal bread sandwich, and 2 other things (1 in DS#2's case) which might be crisps or a chocolate biscuit, youghurt, home-made cake or biscuits, sausage rolls etc. If the fruit or the sandwiches aren't eaten the 'extras' get removed next day. And generally they eat all of it. They might cast envious glances at their friends' lunchboxes filled with nothing but processed junk that never saw a farmer's field, but envy doesn't cut it.

Totally agree with you, Ormirian. I talk to my children about what and why they have what they have in their lunchbox.

I do allow my children to eat unhealthy things from time to time, but I can't be bothered to get upset about this one.

If the school wants to promote healthy eating and if other parents find this helpful, then I'm happy to support it. After all, I already accept that the school can dictate what my children wear.

It's not like it affects their whole lives anyway: if I want to give them a piece of chocolate cake, I've got the whole afternoon and all weekend to do so. Surely, they'll survive for 6 hours without crisps and chocolates? (Cory anxiously awaits phone call from the school reporting that ds has collapsed due to healthiness of diet).

Do you eat crisps and biscuits for lunch? I certainly don't so why should a child? I'd be like a house. Seems like a bizarre choice to me, frankly. And kids trade food or just throw it away. And it is hard to constantly explain why you don't put this kind of snack non-food in their lunch when other parents think it's of a normal healthy meal.

Well yes I do sometimes acinonyx and I'm not like a house. If all they were eating was crisps and biscuits I would agree with you. But it isn't. No they don't trade. There is a very strict rule about that because of food allergies and they are supervised in the dining room.

Having said all that I'd not be that bothered if our school banned certain foods. We are already banned from sweets and chocolate, fizzy drinks, milk and hot drinks in flasks. So it's just a further step down the road.