Just been on a school trip and boy,you should have seen the crap that emerged form the lunch boxes....

[moondog]

Fruit Shoots,cheese strings,those cartons of 'meat'(sorry,industrial slurry) and cheese,weird yoghurts that don't need to be refrigerated and have a 'best before' date of 2018.
The healthiest thing was probably a plastic bread sandwich with some sort of processed chicken slice in it.

When I see their little shining faces and strong bodies,exuding energy ,and then see what they are fuelling themselves with,I want to take said cheese strings and garotte their parents.

surely there was the odd piece of fruit or lonely carrot stick....

We were at Chessington on an INSET day last week and watched one of the shows next to a school party - the kid next to me had processed 'satay' sticks with tomato dip (vacuum packed), roast chicken flavour crisps, a bright pink drink, a chocolate bar and a white jam sandwich. I was moved to comment to DH as our own DSs' stoically ploughed though their cream cheese bagel and bananas.

There was one apple that a kid tossed to one side.

So I ate it.

Probably wrong of me but when dd1 gos on school trips I pack lots of extra goodies (unhealthy) that she dosn't usually have at school. I think it helps make the day more special. I also remember when I was on school trips all the other children had lovely (unhealthy) food and I had my bog standard lunch - give them a break once in a while

On the bright side, I put some plain ricecakes in dd1's packed lunch last week for lack of anything more appealing in the cupboard. Dd1 came home and requested to have them again, as all her friends had really liked them (they share their lunches out, I believe).

I do give them crisps (plain only) and biscuits/cakes/sweet things. But most of them are home-made (polishes halo..)

a little boy at DD's school has a clear plastic lunchbox and all i could see in it was a huge bag of doritos...

Aren't dodgy lunchboxes the norm, though? Aren't the kids with falafel and roasted organic sunflower seeds the odd ones out? I used to give my dds very healthy lunchboxes. One day dd2 invited a child in her class to play - when the mother came to collect her at my house, after we had chatted a bit, she coughed up an apology - my dd had been binning her bloody melon balls and organic hummous sandwiches and had told her friends that we were too poor to afford to give her much in her lunchboxes. The friend had told her mother, who had been making up double plastic peanut butter sandwiches and chucking in an extra mars bar and sunny delight, to give to my poor unfortunate child.....It was only on meeting me that the mother realised that my dd had been telling porkies (albeit organic free range ones).

Question of the day. Are healthy lunchboxes a form of emotional abuse?

I agree moondog. They deserve better.

I suffered healthy lunchbox isolation at school too. But it's the same as wearing sensible shoes. You may resent it at the time, but now you're a parent surely you know it makes sense.

on a school trip recently I couldn't believe that a child actually had a 250g bar of diary milk, didn't eat her sandwiches, just the chocolate, we didn't notice until it was nearly all gone, she spent the rest of the day feeling sick, she actually had carrot sticks and cucumber in another tub, I was gobsmacked.

Mine do tend to get the more crap options on school trips as a treat and also as they tend to be back later. They do also get a biscuit on a friday ,

(they also get plastic bread which I hate but DH has decided to allow, but I make up for it with humzingers fruit and healthy youghurts or tubs of fruit puree- one is dairy allergic).

I don't think trips are a reliable indicator, tbh.

HOWEVER there is a kid in DS1's class who gets peperami fro his healthy snack every day , when she was informed that it was fruit, seeds, dry biscuits etc she just stopped giving him anything until they relented.

I send doritos to school some times, he is allergic to so many things that one of the few things he can have without a reaction are doritos... So don't be so judgemental, if that kid is like mine he may not be allowed even to eat ice cream.

I think I could understand one piece of rubbish in a lunch box. But if it's all rubbish, that's a different matter.

I am a bit at your story ggglimpopo, I fear such tricks may be in my DSes future. Although DS1 is normally pretty happy with his brown bread, cheese and beansprout sandwich (or pate and beansprout, even better).

Mine have all the 'right' things at school everyday. Two x fruit, veg sticks, cheese cubes, tuna or ham sandwiches (sometimes tuna/ham in a tub and pitta bread), yoghurt or soya dessert, water etc.

school outings tho are different and then they get whatever they like as it is classed as a treat. If that includes cheese strings, then so be it. They do normally have a rule of no chocolate/sweets/fizzy tho as of the heat aspect and wasps.

o, go get a life women!
stop worrying about other people.

at least these kids get given food.

You see,I could never make myself believe that a cheese string or a 'Unlunchable' was a treat.

Not even if pliers were attached to my nipples and a live rat trapped under a bowl on my stomach with a fire on top.

No sirrreeeeeeeeee.

Just an aside: when I was a kid we got sandwiches. That was it. Usually cheese and marmite and I lived in South Africa so by the time it was lunchtime, the cheese would be part way melted and greasy. At our school they had a thing called the 'Poor tray' where basically after break you put whatever lunch you didn't eat onto the tray and it was given to poor people. Well my sandwiches went onto the poor tray everyday. I am amazed that I survived. I never ate a thing.

The only time I can remember eating crap was on a school trip when I was 11. I was allowed to use my pocket money to buy sweets for the trip - and I went overboard. Never ever have I felt so sick in my life.

I think that I'll be middle of the road when my boys are big - they'll get healthy stuff, but also a treat.

Don't beat about the bush, now moondog, tell us what you really think!

I see crap like this every day with kids packed lunches in school.

One of my class was eating a fuck off big bar of chocolate in regestration time. He said, 'But it is my breakfast'

It probably was. And it it any wonder the little buggers are pinging off the walls!

Mein Got - what has got into MN today???

Have you all been eating Smugtonictastic or summat?

I was one of those kids who had 'different' ie healthy school lunches. Oh how I coveted my friends luncheon meat and white bread sandwiches, crisps and fizzy orange. I typically had an advocado and home made coleslaw with fruit and a bottle of water. Obviously in hindsight I truely appreciate my mums efforts and I will be inflicting same on my dd

I don't think it's smug to not give your kids shit.
I think properly baked cakes and biscuits are fine every now and then.Ditto ice cream and chocolate.

Plenty I'm lax about in other areas though.

ggglimpopo

I agree moondog, it is not smug to give your kids good healthy stuff and to have an opinion about the crap that is given to other kids - it is allowed, opinions are allowed......it's all too easy to immediately say "aah, smug". SOMETIMES it is RIGHT to be shocked and to say so!

Its not smug to aim for this, especially for your own kids. But where you see others fail and brand what they give them 'industrial slurry'..........slight wiff of smugness coming off the coast there for me.