Blaardy lunchbox police at ds's school. Tomorrow I may lamp them.

[DrNortherner]

Every day ds get his packed lunch inspected by an 8 year old year 3 pupil who makes a list of how many healthy items are in his lunch, she inspects the whole class and makes a list for the teacher. God knows what the teacher does with this info, I need to find out.....

Today this was his lunch
REAL chicken breast sandwhich on a white roll
ASDA cheese dipper
Yoghurt
1 x Plum
Slice of swiss roll
Bottle of water.

It was deemed his plum and yoghurt were the only healthy items in his lunch.

FWIW his outdoor games teacher is about a size 24 and shouts orders whilst sitting on a bench. Is anyone inspectin her lunch?

Grrrrr.

We haven't had the lunch box police around for a few years here. In fact I think it only happened once when we were doing 'healthy school week'. Then they gave it up as an impossible job

If anyone wants to tackle me about my DC's food they are very welcome. I shall invite them to come to my house at 7am do it for me.

Isn't that funny, QS - if I'd been sure that was you, I'd have assumed straight away it was tongue-in-cheek! (It's habbibu, btw - mine's also an election name, though essentially incomprehensible).

DrNortherner YANBU. Think you should def demand to see the 8 yo's qualifications in nutrition and food hygiene and a proper break down of the scores.

There is so much wrong with this! Not least that there is such a double standard used when judging school provided meals and lunchboxes.

My DCs have school meals - which always seems to include a pudding, often a choc chip cookie, or sponge pudding and custard etc. but my inclusion of a small piece of home made fruit & seed flapjack (with figs, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, oats, cranberries) in a packed lunch for a school trip was judged unhealthy.

Arghhh. As others have said.

lol habibbu, your election name truly is incomprehensible!

ellimental, but but but, it is salami light. It is reduced fat.

Aaah, but does the lightness pertain to the colour of the salami or the fatfreeness of the said salami?

Apparently it's the salt/preservatrives in processed meat that takes 70 years off yoru life. Or something.

My three dses are all at senior school now, where the lunchbox police do not venture - which is just as well, because these children, who have spent their primary school years being educated on healthy eating, now choose their own lunches, and choose crap, crap and more crap.

The S(enior)1 children (equivalent to year 8 in England) have to stay onsite, and eat in the dining hall (or packed lunches). Meals in the dining hall include such delights as cheese made up from powder (I kid you not), readymade pasta dishes that are just reheated on site and cookies. And this is within the healthy schools status too.

All the rest are allowed off site at lunchtime, and lunches are bought from the co-op, the chip shop, the newsagents in the village, or the burger van that parks in a layby just up from school (in fact, I think some of the S1 kids sneak off to the van as well).

I would be fuming at what's happening to the OP's ds' lunchbox - and would be up at the school making my complaints known in no uncertain terms.

The way it looks seems to be on the lighter shade of additional grey, in addition to a ligther fatfreeness. And it does not taste so good. Maybe due to the high sheep to fat ratio....

Oh no, high sheep content is a bit wooly isn't it?

I do think it sounds like you have been fleeced with this light salami, QS.

Baaah.

Well I hope my dc's school bring in the food police today as they'd have a fit. I decided to go on strike this morning, so they made their own. I did insist on a sandwhich (wholemeal) and fruit, but for all I know they've got dozens of cakes/crisps etc.

It's not every day and it was feintly educational as they all complained about how long it took.

baaa indeed!

I would send the school a data protection request asking for a copy of all data they hold regarding your dc's luncbox. They must also tell you the purpose for which they hold the data and any other person who has access to it (how silly will they look when they put a bunch of 8 year old's names in this list?!) They legally have to comply with this request within 40 days. Try and persuade your mate's to do the same. If they want to fill out forms, give them some more to do

Just come to this thread - I'd be totally steaming. At dd's school its a choice of packed lunch or packed lunch, so we choose packed lunch. I personally don't think its the responsibility of the dinner ladies to ensure that my daughter eats all her luunch; if I send in a celery stick, organic tomato and a puff of fresh air she will not eat it. On the other hand, if I put in some tiddy sausage rolls, tomato sauce, yoghurt, cake bar, fresh pineapple and a pepperami stick , the likelihood is that she will consume enough to fill her body and brain to see ther though to teatime where upon I will give her food which would include all the relevant blah blah blah stuff.

pmsl @ half a pack of lard and 20 Lambert and Butler. Don't forget the matches and a drink - can of Red Bull perhaps

Interesting the debate re what on earth is OK to put in sandwiches. Mine often have Marmite - is this also the Devil's work? Probably nightmarish salt levels

I expect in 10 years time parents will be horrified we gave our DC sandwiches at all. The processed flour! The added salt and chemicals!

yes, what can you put in sandwiches?
Or is a small pot of steamed lentils the only acceptable lunchbox meal any more?
Better get out my lentil recipe book before DS starts school next year!

this is madness!!

how about
white sliced bread with chocolate spread,
bag of peanuts,
greggs sausage roll,
chocolate buttons
chocolate milk, natch
oh btw crisps, after all they are veggies

DS starts school in September and will have packups- if Greggs sausage rolls are ok, can I get away with a fruit shoot too?

Remembering with fondness paste sandwiches, a penguin, or a wagon wheel(yay!), banana (always bashed to hell!), hardboiled egg and the biggest pink flask of dilute orange ever seen. Blurghh!

So an 8 year old is checking all the lunch boxes?
She checks and finds one child has brought in biscuits with nuts in.
The next box she inspects is fine, but its owner has a nut allergy....

Sounds better lunch than one Y1 child's lunch at school this week. He has a beef sandwich roll and a jam sandwich roll both covered in green icing! And then dessert was 8 chocilate digestives!

Put a note in the lunch box saying, in bold capitals, FUCK OFF. This thread has riled me, at first I misread it as a year 8. An 8 year old??? The 8 year old I know picks his arse, never mind his nose. Are schools legally allowed to do all this? Because no way will my DSs be going in without a decent amount of fat and carbs, even if I have to drive to school and sit in the car with them at lunch time.

sandwiches covered in green icing??

"I do - I like green icing and ham"

oh FFS!

What could possibly be deemed unhealthy about a bottle of water?!?!? Much the healthiest option - no calories, no additives, no tooth rotting acids. What is wrong with these people?!

Are you sure it's not just a scheme to get children doing jobs around the school for their own development. I wouldn't be surprised if the information went nowhere but a folder. But I do agree heartedly that children are being falsely 'educated' that everything healthy is automatically low fat, low sugar, low salt etc.

I hate the mislead info being spouted out by people who aren't nutritionists, Drs, nurses, or anything remotely qualified to guide my kids and I on a balanced lunch. Surely they want to encourage BALANCED diets, not restrictive.
My girls love most foods, I'm very fortunate for this, and I hate the fact that they'll get nonsensical ideas put in their heads about avoiding all foods with a high salt, fat, sugar, whatever content.
All I want is to give them regular, unadulterated foods with varying quantities of nutrients. I just can't believe that a rubbish 'healthy choice' yoghurt with hardly any actual yoghurt in it and loads of sweeteners and stabilisers is ok, and a small carton of fortified chocolate wholemilk isn't. It has sugar yes, but that would be the only sugary thing I would put in, to provide variety alongside the sarnies, fruit, veggies and wholegrains.
Surely they are overlooking the fact that children need lots of energy and that not all of that can come from plant foods and muesli?!
Can also not believe I thought it a good idea at first, that it would simply put a bit of a limit on the amount of refined foods in a lunchbox (I went to school with people who'd have packed themselves two cans of pop and a mars bar...)
then I saw the endless list of what is forbidden in school. I'll do it fo a quiet life but I've certainly not carried those restrictions on outside of school. They get most of the fruit and veg they need in their lunch, come out of school hungry and are downright entitled to snack on a piece of homemade cake or a milkshake!