My four year old is ONLY allowed to bring CRISPS for a playtime snack. Is this normal? Or am I weird...

[savoycabbage]

Have had information pack from the Infant school that my dd will be starting in September. The school says that they provide fruit for all of the children that want it and if you want you can bring a packet of crisps for morning break. Nothing else. Not a nice home-made flapjack or a biscuit. We are going to the parent's meeting soon and I can't decide if I should say something or not as there is NO WAY MY CHILD IS EATING FIVE PACKETS OF CRISPS A WEEK FOR THREE YEARS!!! But I sometimes have difficulty in deciding if I am normal or not.....I don't want to make a tw*t of myself before she even starts. What do you think?

[mrz]

We ask parents for a contribution of £1 a week but for that the children get things like toast, sandwiches, cereal, fruit salad, fruit kebabs, salads, cheese and crackers, soups, on top of the free fruit. It also helps pay for ingredients for cooking each week and special days when we may have picnics (sometimes with crisps) or a BBQ.

[pandapanda]

My dcs are given fruit. They aren't allowed to take other things for break but they can take crisps in their lunchbox. I don't know if any of them raid their lunch boxes at break time though.

Yurt- I just read the whole thread and I think that the crisps are not an alternative as such. All children will be given fruit ( if parents sign the form) and on top of that, you can take crisps from home. This means that savoy is left with the choice of letting her child have a packet of crisps everyday or let her be the only one with nothing from home. ie she can just have the fruit but it might make her stand out.

[CodGuevara]

no mroe salt in crisps than bread argument?

[savoycabbage]

That's exactly it pandapanda. She can and will be having the fruit. The only other person I know who is going to the school has already said that they are going to give their child crisps every day. Which seems strange to me and that is why I am asking. So her only friend (when she first starts anyway) will be getting crisps. I soooooooo do not want her to stand out over this as she already does because she is mixed race. I live in a place where when my 9 month old saw a mixed race child on the front of a magazine in the supermarket she cried as she thought it was her sister! But that's another story.

[pandapanda]

you can't just eat loads and loads of salty things because bread has salt in it. They aren't saying you can have crisps or bread, they are saying you can have crisps or nothing, which is odd, don't you think cod.

(I don't put any salt in my bread [why don't we have a preen emoticon ]

[savoycabbage]

Don't you? I thought it didn't rise.

[flack]

I wouldnt have problem with the crisp suggestion, personally -- dont most packed lunches contain a bag of crisps? Just take it out of the packed lunch if child is a non-fruit eater (like mine, who would rather go hungry than touch fruit). DS often comes home very ratty due to hunger. This has been going on 4 yrs, now....

Would prefer small daily bag of crisps over daily big bag of chox, too, personally.

My LOs are ravenous all morning, am astounded by people who deny toddlers any snacks. Dont they need snacks to grow properly (small stomachs & all that?)

[Yurtgirl]

Oh I get it now SC

At my lo's school they are allowed fruit or nothing at breaktime - we choose whether to pay £1 per week.

I find it odd they are allowed crisps and fruit during break it seems like a lot to me. Surely if they said fruit or nowt they would be more likely to eat the fruit - thats the theory they use at our school anyway

If it were me I would beg the school to make breaktimes fruit only at breaktime

Snacks are great, of course they are, but crisps fall into the junk category in our house. Mine have about one thing per day which isnt too great and that is almost never crisps, sweets or chocolate.

[mynameisbond]

I think I would give her other things that come in packets like rice cakes, mini cheddars and those marmite breadsticks to help your ds fit in. I think I would ask them about it though.....It does seem a strange thing in these post-Jamie times.