to have sent ds to his (HEALTHY) school this morning with assorted crappola in his lunch box?

[Megglevache]

I noticed today that his lunch box is empty and he informed me he had eaten it all.

I have always read the letters, tried to put very healthy stuff in ds's lunch box but over the past few weeks he's gone off stuff and when I've asked him why it turns out that one of the lunch time assistants has quizzed my ds on the contents of his lunch box and he's been too embarassed to eat it thereafter. She's said stuff like:

"What on earth have you got there?" Black olives and houmous I think that time
"EEEww that doesn't look very plesant to eat does it?" (fruit bar thingie)
"What are they? I wouldn't eat those, ha ha" (chickpeas)

He told me this a few days ago and it was verified by another parent when I asked her (who works there too)

I know it's a bit childish but in a fit of pique I packed for him today:

Cheese on white bread sandwich
Twix
packet of quavers
small chocolate cake
a jelly

With a small notes telling them what I thought about the comments made.

Ok everything had gone and ds thinks all his christmases had come at once.

Was it really bad?

[wince]

Checking every lunch box for misdemenors! For ever.

I wished and wished for a mint viscount!mmmmm. AND a pink plastic my little pony lunchbox with matching flask (the flask absolutely had to have a spout). Ideally the flask would have been full of red soda-stream. Ooooh and jam sandwiches and an orange club bar.

Instead I had a plastic bag full of tuna sandwiches (oh the shame) and an apple. I was never very popular at school

To be fair by filling the little lads lunchbox up with chickpeas you are really making him a bully's wet dream. Couldn't you ditch the chickpeas and maybe give him something heathy but less conspicuous?

Oh Meggle you have done a brave and beautiful thing. You are saluted at the Arcadie household as a woman of good humour and discernment. In the grand scheme of things it does not matter if you DS eats Quavers every day for his entire life as long as he's eating a load of other healthy stuff. You are not "willfully endangering" your child to make a point. You are just making a point.

what about a nice fruitshoot?

We don't have Fruitshoots in our house, nobody likes them. LOL @ bullies wet dream.

ORANGE CLUB BISCUIT!

At our school one child regularly has noodles and I was really impressed that mum(whom I know to be a very impressive cook)maked her these lovely freshly prepared lunches everday (she has a lovely flask too) until after 3 years the child told me it was a pot noodle just made up and poured into a flask!! All my dreams were shattered!

Megglevache - YANBU because the school our DSs go to has suddenly gone all 'lunch box police' on us for the after school care tea we send .

The list of stuff they are not allowed because it is 'not healthy' and then all the stuff that 'may have nuts in it' means there is very little they can have.

The thing is the lunch they have is not that good as it is bought in and not made on the premises and then they feed them all sorts of sugary sweets and junk on 'special days' when they are having 'Easter Fayres' or whatever.

We are not allowed any kind of crisps, cereal bars, cakes, confectionary, obvioulsy no nut bearing products but why ban anything that may have been near a nut, or indeed anything vaguely snack like at all.

They are only allowed fruit, sandwiches (no peanut butter obviously) and a drink of pure fruit juice. After several weeks of that monotonous tea time diet the DSs naturally rebelled and so we rebelled as well - just like you did.

No one has said anything yet but we do not go the whole 'FruitShoot' so maybe that is why.

What's wrong with Quavers? I think we should have a MN and non-MN food list.

Mollie I don't think there is anything wrong with Quavers I just knew that it would be frowned upon at the school and that it would get noticed. It's hardly like my children never eat rubbish, they do now and then.

Pot Noodle decanted into a flask how bizarre!

My nan used to "cook" pot noodles in a saucepan - for about 10 mins! The irony of this was completely lost on her

I am not worthy...I am not worthy... I don't care if it might have been better to speak to the staff directly, I LOVE it!

ds (4) had problems with the dinner ladies at his school - he is a very selective eater and we have found that leaving him completely alone means he will eat with no problems and possibly even try new things. Sadly the (Spanish matriarch-type) dinners ladies chose to ingore this even though we'd had a specific meeting with the head about it, and for weeks ds was badgered at every meal by the ladies trying to force him to eat, nagging incessantly etc. We complained endlessly and told ds not to listen, but were told with a shrug that "this is how grandmothers are, they can't help it" and ds virtually stopped eating altogether.

EVENTUALLY we managed to get the message across and now all is well, but I would have LOVED to have staged a defensive stroke like that. (A little difficult with school dinners I suppose!)

I really think you have a little too much intellectual energy to spare

I think you need a hobby or job of some sort...

I can totally understand why you did it

I just wish dd1 would eat any of the things mentioned in the healthy lunch boxes

valleysprincess, I think you had my childhood!

If I could sum up my upbringing in one word it would be 'oatmeal'.

I used to dream of white bread sandwiches with the crusts cut off, processed ham and violently orange coloured drinks.

My mum used to bake her own bread (for bread read 'brick') and my dad used to trick me into eating the crusts (read 'shoe leather') by making the sandwich, cutting it in half, then turning the top bits round so there was crust on all sides and no way to the soft bit apart from through the hard bit.

I was a bright kid, but I didn't ever think to turn the bread back round again

And don't even get me started on the warm orange juice in a jam jar...

MorrisZapp BLEUGHH

Chickpeas?......Olives?...surely for the older palate..although my DD is 5 and partial to Stilton

Orange juice in a jam jar. Oh Bliss.

I have given up with my protest I even put in home made wholewheat cheese straws in today and some Hoore - moose.

LOL at too much energy and needing a hobby, I have too many of those and not enough intellect sadly

our school only allows sandwich, fruit, yogurt and fruit/snack bar and cut up veg, ie carrot/celery,cumcumber etc

no choclate, crisps, cakes etc
yet if you have school dinners as mine does, you can eat a peice of fruit and then have a pudding of stodgy cake/jam rolypoly etc

Agree with Tsar - although understand your difficulty coz the silly caaa (lunchtime supervisor) has seemingly put your DS off his usual lunchbox items. Kids want to fit in, but surely you are not going to let this blip stop you from providing an infinitely more nutritious range of foods (better than nutella white bread sarnies with onion bhaji flavoured crisps - yeeeurch!)....

Yes blondes I have to agree with you, it does seem a bit bananas. He used to have dinners and pud was regularly chocolate muffins/ cherry bakewells with custards etc.

Yes in a lunch box supposedly you can't have custard or cake of any description. Any way it's all cool now. I knew a girl at school who would have a bar of chocolate in a white baguette and another who had a tin of octopus most days!

todays menu

meatballs, rice, carrots and green beans

then peach and treacle sponge and custard

a tin of octopus