School dinners

[peterpansbrother]

Should primary schools be able to dictate what a pupil should bring in for lunch in their packed lunch ?
I understand the peanut scenario, but our children's school has sent out a list of what they can bring and can't. That also dictate they can bring a nice pudding in but only on a Friday ???

Any thought please.

Is this a don't bring sugar thing? If so, I honestly cannot see the problem. Children don't need sugary puddings as a general thing unless there is some specific problem requiring high calorie intake (and even then, cheese or cream or butter would probably be a better idea).

Don't get me wrong I am ok up for the healthy options. Just seems a little fine lined and a bit ruling for a infants school.

Have you not met the lunchbox police yet?

Think they have found me

What are the actual rules?

I have seen children bringing an entire pack of biscuits for lunch. That was their whole lunch. This is what they are trying to deal with in banning sugary things, not parents who occasionally stick a chocolate mousse in. Once a week is actually quite a loose rule for a primary school. There are plenty who would say that it was never acceptable to send something of that kind.

Fruit is enough of a pudding for an infant school lunch, IMO.

They have only this week implemented the rule, myself am a healthy eater so I agree with the healthy side.
My DW had. Eating disorder in her younger years so it can be quite confusing for children who have these issues when try get told what they can and can't eat.

Why can the school serve up pudding every day in the school meals, but parents can't send in a bit of cake or a biscuit?
I totally understand that some kids will be given inappropriate pack lunches, so some guidance may be required, but this outright banning of sweet things is ridiculous.

There was a funny thread on here a while back about the Lunch Box Police.
One poster admitted she put an apple in on Monday and it went back and forth all week! This was to placate the daily inspection for fruit!

Totally agree with the comment about school dinners , they serve cake custard all that stuff, but you cant take a muffin in ??

As for the Apple idea I may hVe to give it a go for a laugh

School dinner puddings have pretty much no sugar in them though. They are basically tasteless. So really not a comparison to lunch boxes with chocolate/sweets/biscuits.

If your children won't eat fruit to the extent that an apple goes back and forth all week, that isn't funny. It's terribly sad. For your children. Seriously? There are children who won't eat an apple for lunch and demand some kind of high sugar pudding instead? How is that not appalling?

OP, your kids don't need a muffin. If you want to treat them to a nice pudding, get them a mango or some cherries or something.

BTW the school dinner puddings are nearly sugarless and not at all nice compared to a real homemade muffin or biscuit. While I agree with all things in moderation, no kid is going to suffer much from not having a sugary pudding at one meal out of the day.

And what's the actual rule? You didn't say.

Have you actually tried a school dinnerpudding? I eat one sometimes as I work in a preschool with the same dinners as the local.primary. majority of the puddings are pretty sweet! Things like jelly are watery, but I've had carrot cake, doughnuts, short cake with jam that all taste as if they've come from a bakery.
As long as a child has a carb, a fruit or veg and some protein there really shouldn't be a problem with some small sweet thing being there as well.