Are thye allowed to not let my son eat some of his packed lunch?

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My son was told today at lunch that he was unable to eat his chocolate custard and two jaffa cakes. Its the first time but i think its a bit wrong.

Advice please and not about giving him things.

good for you malory.

Thankfully dd1's school believe that the parents (on the whole) are well able to decide what to put in the child's lunchbox.

Agree with OMDB about the hot puddings for those who have school meals. dd1 wanted packed lunches, but came home extremely on Monday as the school dinner children had all eaten yummy blackcurrant pie!

I personally think that if a child has (in a lot of cases) only had perhaps a quick bowl of cereal for breakfast, and a fruit snack at break, by lunchtime something like a sandwich and fruit and perhaps a "diet" yoghurt may not be enough.

Also agree re the low fat dairy. Generally many of the vitamins are fat soluble (afaik) so the fuller fat versions are best for young children, certainly under 5s. (obviously if the child is overweight then the parents should be seeking advice from a relevant source)

malory sounds yum

Btw you seem to have forgotten the low fat full of additives "healthy" option yoghurt!

By MaloryDontDiveItsShallow on Thu 11-Sep-08 20:40:40

and a penguin

if the school dont like it they can frankly fark right off. i will NOT be told how to feed my children by an ill informed load of tecchers.

please don't BLAME us we are only doing what the government tell us! I have much better things to do on my lunchtime.

i did think that too, mrz

hardly the teachers

that's like blaming the police for enforcing laws set by the govt

Low-fat is bollocks. Even for adults. There are plenty of naturally low-fat foods available without buying reduced fat versions of thing that are meant to have fat in them.

Children under 5 need more fat in their diet than older children and adults.

'The silly thing was, he had nice ham on a brown bread, orange juice. Fruit bar, rice cakes, raisins and then the jaffa cake.'

You gave him all this and a chocolate custard as well? Are you sure they stopped him eating them due to a healthy eating policy or because there was simply no time left at lunch!

sorry for posting twice!!
at my ds primary school they also give out stickers to those who have healthy snacks and it goes on a chart i think. at first i thought this was a great motivator to help kids eat well, but now i'm thinking it could cause more harm.it's just another thing to get picked on for...."ive got more stickers than you!!!" its easy for my son, he cant really eat anything but "sports candy"...my ds love lazytown.
we all need help and guidance sometimes, but this has got silly.the schools can advise and support,not inforce. some people cant afford healthy, or they think they cant, they need support. anyway, bet chips still on the school menu!!!!!

lollipop that drove me up the wall at work.

All the people would buy low fat yoghurts for lunch.

I would point out they were low in fat but stuffed with sugar to make up for it.

I also pointed out that full fat yoghurt is a more "natural" product, with lovely milky goodness, and that yoghurt adulterated for low-fattedness then made palatable with sugar was cobblers.

They still bought the low fat yoghurts. I bought lovely yeo valley full fat ones, until they stopped selling it in lunch size portions, presumably because of lack of sales.

What a load of bollocks.

i don't think that his packed lunch was thgat much,
my 3.5 yr old would eat that lot no problem

They haven't stopped selling them Chucky, I've got some in my fridge.

mrz do the government really say that you have to remove certain foods from lunchboxes?

Or are some schools being a bit over-zealous?

chukky - drives me mad too. Posted a mimi rant on that very subject a while back. People who sit in the office endlessly stuffing their faces on lf this and low-cal that. Instead of eating some real food for breakfast and lunch and not being hungry all the time.

Yes TIY but I know we get letters home stating that time to eat their lunch is limited and children tend to chat and eat slowly so we are advised to keep it to a sandwich or equivalent, fruit and a biscuit or equivalent.

Oh Chukky I hope they haven't discontinued the little yeo valleys. I often buy yeo valley for the baby as I think they have less sugar than some of the "healthy baby yoghurts that are suitable from 4 months " I can still get them sometimes - not in Morrisons now iirc.

'if the school dont like it they can frankly fark right off. i will NOT be told how to feed my children by an ill informed load of tecchers.'

How dare you? It is fuck all to do with the teachers.

I agree with a previous poster - the lunch would have taken a long time for a little one to eat and I bet he just ran out of time. In that case, all this hot air and teacher-bashing will have been for nothing (except to offend a lot of teaching mumsnetters.

Anyway, I am not a 'teccher'!!!

queenbea they stopped selling them where I went to buy my lunch, which was the waitrose in canary wharf. The shelves were lined with muller lite. It was a huge shop. The only full fat yoghurt they had (and believe me I looked!) was either tiny super-extra-expensive things or the massive ones.

Grr..

Anyway I don't work there now and can now buy lovely yoghurts freely!!!

I am, however, a teacher

OrmIrian it is all "weightwatchers flavoured water soup" and other delights in our office. Supplemented by lots of coffee and cake when they are starving later.

I am treated with when I eat my normal sandwich and follow it up with a Twix.

ok tutter you can be livid

My post was about responses to the OP

I don't like the obsession with low-fat either. I'm working in reception now and have to give full-fat milk to the under 5s and semi-skimmed to the rest. So as soon as you hit 5 you click over to having to watch your weight. Quite mad.

Don't panic lollipop - it was just that one (enormous) outlet which stopped selling them (pah).

The stupid thing was that I was only buying the bloody yoghurt to sort of give a bit of conformity with all the biscuit munching yet "healthy" lunching colleagues.

So when they didn't stock any yoghurt I would actually eat (i.e. rather than a tub full of sugar) I had to go back to cheese toasties. Yum.