My child was served sausages

[Flowerpowerr1]

Not sure how to deal with this one, so my little one started nursery and gets given lunch there, we are Muslim and they know he’s not allowed pork, they usually give him veggie sausages because and they let me know on the app, but today I read that he had normal sausages and I’m assuming it’s pork? I know you can get beef but I’m not sure if they use beef? I’ll have a talk with them tomorrow but if it was pork I just don’t know how I’ll ever trust them again! This is usually a very good nursery and it’ll be silly of them to make a mistake like this knowing he doesn’t eat it for religious reasons.
Has anybody else dealt with something like this??

@Allycott Are all the staff and children Muslim?

Given that pork also can't be eaten by Jews, Hindus or vegetarians/vegans (and that it's hardly a nutritious or healthy food) it's not doing any harm to avoid it, is it?

I do all my kids' parties/play dates as vegetarian and nut-free because there are so many different backgrounds/cultures as well as preferences, allergies and intolerances, it's just easier and fairer on everyone to make food that the vast majority can eat.

@BlusteringBoobies

Thank goodness all of this was resolved yesterday and many posts ago when the OP was told it was a keying error and the sausages were veggie.

I'm not sure how most of the further posts are relevant to the OP. She hasn't asked for opinions, she's asked how to deal with the nursery potentially not following dietary requirements (which has luckily been resolved).

Actually calling out the ducking disgusting ignorance and hatred is very necessary, even if op’s problem has been solved.

But thanks for trying to shut the discussion down.

@Asi1

To its religious people of the book not those who do not practice their faith

@Asi1 it is a minority view but there are those who believe meat of the people of the book IS permissible. It’s a lot clearer cut with kosher meat as the slaughter is practically identical. But there is a minority view that all meat from people of the book is permissible. OP could follow that, i do.

Does that mean I eat battery chicken meat… absolutely not but I also think battery raised chicken slaughtered in a ‘halal’ manor is stretching the concept of halal to its absolute max to the point it is halal just for a sticker on a box, not the true essence of islamic meat consumption… But that is a convo for another day

@Ostryga but it's not a discussion 🤷🏻‍♀️. It's a lot of hot air from people too ignorant to bother entering a discussion. You're just shouting into the void and giving fodder to respond to.

Or...you could report the more vile posts as I have so OP doesn't have to see them and point out the specific issue has been resolved.

But carry on keeping the thread going if you want to continue the derail?

Schools here tend to avoid pork entirely. It's just easier

I'm betting the sausages were beef..... Especially if you're in a quite diverse area.

I don't think that would help. There are many more children where I am who don't eat beef for religious reasons than there are children who don't eat pork.

Glad it was just a recording error, OP.

We’ve had a similar issue. Our nursery updates the app in a way which looks as though she’s been fed meat (we are a vegan family), it’s always turned out to be an error. They are very understanding about why this is so important to us, and now they put the word vegan on every meal.

They do feed her a lot of fake meats & dairy products, because they don’t want her to feel different to the other children which is very considerate. But, she now thinks she eats chicken & ham which is becoming a bit of an issue at the moment, and we are currently deciding what to do about that. 🤷‍♀️

@5128gap my son is similar - he’s only 3 and I’ve genuinely tried to shield him/be breezy about this stuff but we were looking at the animals (baby sheep!) in his little brother’s book and he said ‘My Daddy eats lambs. He’s not very kind is he?’ 😂

My dd is veggy and one day her nursery diary said she had had chicken. When I asked the staff member about it they said she hadn’t eaten chicken - that’s what the others had had and she had completed all the diaries together on autopilot. On balance I believed her. She had been there a long time and there is a veggy option is available at every meal, so it seemed more likely they had recorded it incorrectly than given her meat.

I imagine it was either a mistake or you were given incorrect info.
The child is not ill, therefore no 'physical' harm done, let it go this time but make sure it's known that they're not allowed pork.

No pork is allowed on the menu where I work, but they serve chicken sausages as an alternative.

Oh dear lord, while it may be food that you have decided for your children that they are not allowed to eat - have any of them suffered actual harm?!!

@Touchmybum
The animals have

@superram

Most schools use chicken sausage for this reason, I’d check first.

No they don't. This is total nonsense!!

[quote Greenrubber]@Touchmybum
The animals have[/quote]
That's not the point of this complaint.

@Touchmybum

Oh dear lord, while it may be food that you have decided for your children that they are not allowed to eat - have any of them suffered actual harm?!!

Not suffering actual harm is a really low bar to set for childcare.

@Touchmybum

Oh dear lord, while it may be food that you have decided for your children that they are not allowed to eat - have any of them suffered actual harm?!!

It's their religion

Neither pork or non halal meat is permissable. So eating non halal meat is haram in the same way that pork is.

Who are you to decide what's permissible to the OP? The dc I look after in school is Muslim and his mum only cares that he doesn't eat pork. The rest she's just relieved he's branching out of his hugely restricted diet. He basically lives off ice cream and chocolate at home from what I can tell. I work in a very diverse area and many kids are the same - no pork, other meat ok although it's not halal.

Touchmybum

Oh dear lord, while it may be food that you have decided for your children that they are not allowed to eat - have any of them suffered actual harm?!!

Not suffering actual harm is a really low bar to set for childcare.

I don't agree! Eating a sausage is hardly life-threatening. I totally get that it may be for religious reasons, but as a one-off mistake, I couldn't get my knickers in a twist over it!! There are way more challenges with children, so personally I'd save my angst for those!