School snack: Is a cream cracker and some fruit the work of the devil?

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Dd 10 has to bring in a snack for playtime.

I always, always give her a piece of fruit (she loves this anyway and it also observes school healthy eating doctrine) But she was starting to get episodes of feeling quite faint before lunch especially if she couldn't get in for the first sitting. So I started to give her some fruit and two cream crackers to bump up the snack.

This has worked very well and kept her going.

Today the teacher has decreed the cream crackers are not to be It must only be fruit or veg. Why?? Other things in this world apart from fruit and veg can still be healthy.

I do absolutely make sure dd eats breakfast. She eats extremely healthily (god I make darn sure all dc do!) and I see no problem with a cracker if the fruit alone is insufficient. FGS

Well she and I started the beginnings of what was turning into be a heated debate.

We are lucky they are allowed a snack at all apparantly.

She's not adverse to dishing out lines and detentions and I don't want dd in the firing line although it's tempting to keep sending them in.

What annoyed me was when I said about the crackers she immediately said no sorry only healthy snacks are allowed. The message is so wrong. They are obsessed with only one kind of healthy food.

send a letter in saying " due to my daughter being prone to fainting, she will have two crackers becuase of the carb content.

she will not be detained after school and i will NOT give my permission for this to happen, may i remind the school that i am the parent and i shall parent how i see fit. I feel that you are asserting control over something that is a non issue. there is a whole spectrum of foods which are healthy,and parents are not too stupid to understand the difference between pizza and two cream crackers.

Please take any issued up with me, not my child.

I would love to do that Custy but it will def make things worse. I could see her warming up on the subject no end when I criticised the healthy eating policy.

I resent being told they know better than I do about what my child can eat. Bloody cheek. They don't half over step the mark.

worse how?what they gonna do?

Reckon she'll either confiscate them from dd or punish her for eating them.

Either way I'm going to keep coming up against the same brick wall that she trotted out to me today. The head will back her cos it's the 'school' policy not just something she has dreamt up - although I could tell she thought it was the best thing since sliced bread carrots.

I can't spend the next year in a daily war with this woman and putting dd in her line of fire and belive me dd would get i in the neck for sure. I resent the interferance though.

Tsar, I think you need to put your complaint in writing now, and cc it to the Govenors.

There have been a number of threads recently re mad healthy eating policies. Children need calories.

I can't last from breakfast until lunch on just a banana; why on earth is a child expected to?

Would a sandwich be acceptable?

What does she have for breakfast? If she has some protein then she should last through with just a fruit snack. But cereal isn't protein (or only a small amount in the milk).

Cereal, fruit yogurt. She's not a big fan of breakfast but she has it. I honestly don't think she'd eat much more than that anyway.

Mind you she does love cheese and bread etc.

It might be a weird thing to have for breakfast but she might go for that. More carbs and protein.

Not sure about a letter. I'd like to, but the head makes the teacher look positively welcoming. I don't want to get dragged into cracker-gate.

ee wjat your saying kjangly, i never gave mine anything for break times - but surely thats not the point.

cc to governers

they cannot punish your dd.

send letter

According to the FSA girls aged 7-10 need 1740 calories per day, and at 11-14 need nearly 1900.

An adult woman needs around 2000.

An apple contains 53 calories apparently!

Oh if she loves cheese then no problem. Give her cheese on toast for breakfast! Cheese is very sustaining. Can't really see why she can't have a couple of crackers with cheese between at break time. Very healthy for a child.

Food should be down to the parents, not the teachers.

Bingo! Cheese toastie! She'd love that. I'll give that a go. Good suggestion

DS playgroup doesn't give breadsticks cos they are high in salt but they do give these crackers could you get those and show her teacher that they are just flour and water so nothing unhealthy about them?

Thanks NA They look absolutely fine to me but I know what they'd say at school

Never mind. I'm going to stop moaning now.