The lunchbox police are at it again! *rage*

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My children have come home declaring that cheese is unhealthy and doesn't have a place in a healthy lunchbox, what the actual fuck?! why are a schools getting away with this bolleux!

Adikia that's not a bad link but it does suggest the bullshit "healthy swaps" which are for adults on a weight loss programme and not for normal, growing children.

We don't have lunch box police at the school dc's attend. They can take whatever they like for break or lunch. I don't know if it would be mentioned to the parents if they only had rubbish.

I wonder if lunch box police are on a diet therefore cheese is bad

There really is no way at all that our DC aren't penalized at school is there? If it isn't how they do/don't write, sit, look, learn, behave it's the contents of their fluffing lunch box being used to drag them down .

I'm guessing next steps will compulsory boot camps for Dc aged 4+......oh just a minute....we already have them.

Perhaps everyone should just send their kids in with a lunch devoid of any fat and protein and full of cereal bars and fruit winders then see how much work actually gets done.

Doubt after an after noon of starving kids on a sugar high they won't be so worried about some cheese.

Unfortunately a lot of "healthy eating advice" that children are given at school seems to originate via the slimming world school of nutrition and includes a lot of shite about fat being bad, but meringue apparently being absolutely fine

Not all schools are this ridiculous.

My DDs primary has a very sensible lunchbox policy in that the only things not allowed are fizzy drinks and chocolate.

I think this needs a Mumsnet campaign - to get ONE set of basic, nutritional advice, for all schools to use, written by qualified dieticians, who understand the different nutritional needs of children, as opposed to adults.

If I were the OP, I would be writing back to the school to ask them why they want to exclude a good source of protein and dairy from children's diets, and to point out to them that children NEED a certain amount of healthy fats in their diet, for the healthy development of their brains and nervous systems - in fact, the brain is 70% fat! Not to mention the fact that some vitamins are fat soluble, so the body cannot absorb them without fat in the diet - do they realise that peddling the 'all fat is evil' mantra could lead to malnourished children, who are vitamin-deficient.

No restrictions at our school other than fizzy drinks and nuts.
The only issue I had was when children were being forced to eat all of their school meal. Someone stood by the bin and sent them back to their seat if there was anything left on the plate. I had a huge issue with that. If you are full up then you should stop eating.
Turns out the school was being audited for food waste....and came out with flying colours, surprise, surprise.

STD I would support that. Sounds a bloody brilliant idea. I am sick of the 'slimming world' nutritionists. Just because you have a good knowledge of what is an appropriate diet for an overweight middle aged person, does not mean you are qualified to enforce arbitrary nutritional rules on primary age kids. Grrr

I hate the enforced you must eat it allshite too. Obesity is a huge issue. We need to teach people to stop when full. Ffs.

This is absolute bullshit and I agree I reckon it's all linked to that stupid change4life advice! I will not give my DS diet drinks as they are usually packed with aspartame which I have linked to his bad behaviour! I always cut a chunk of cheese as a snack to with some grapes/apple or banana. They have got it completely wrong. Sick of all the policing of our children!

Also no forced to finish it at my school, some schools are obviously crap but not all

And no..as a midday supervisor I don't let any personal angst about food get in the way of my job, the whole being professional while in work bit

Ditto Rufustheraindeer.

A campaign was mentioned on another recent thread too. I would definitely be up for supporting it.

I really feel that some recent advice is not just useless/inaccurate but actually dangerous long term :(

I was a midday... I stopped when all this crap started.....

You do realise that the mid days don't make this stuff up... it comes from the senior management team at the school.... focus your anger at the policers of the police.....

I've reported my post, in order to ask MNHQ to consider this as a MN campaign.

Thankfully our school has a sensible lunchbox policy - no fizzy drinks, no sweets and no large bars of chocolate - a small chocolate biscuit such as a penguin or twix finger is allowed, children will be encouraged to eat their sandwich or similar first but there are no rules. Children aren't forced to eat their full school meal but are encouraged to eat a bit more if they've only picked at it.

Sounds similar to ours fuzzy