Anyone elses school sent a "contract" home for parents of children who have packed lunches

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cause ours just have! Never heard of anything like this before.

Do the teachers have to do it too?

nah they sneek out for a bag of chips from the chippy round the corner

They'll be telling you to put bread in the packed lunches next, tsk how the hell are you supposed to include bread in a packed lunch.
Fascists!

If I was going to have to sign a contract - I might just ask who wrote the contract and what qualification they have to make such a contract, both legaly and nutrientaly??

Send a note in asking what there credentials are - going just to stri them up

They'll be telling you to put bread in the packed lunches next, tsk how the hell are you supposed to include bread in a packed lunch.
Fascists!

no the teachers are too busy trading B&Hs and drinking gin in the staff room

no I a not up the duff, are you REALLY allowed lots of tuna? I have been rationing the bloody stuff

In fact tuna does contain some Omega 3, just not as much as salmon. I know this because it's the only fish my daughter will eat and it features on our menu rather frequently. If she could have it more than twice a week, she would!

Staffrooms are awash with biscuits and chocolates. As any fule kno

I would tell them exactly where to shove their healthy lunchboxes!!

What parents need, is to be educated.
Parents need to be given the information to allow them to make an informed choice with regards to what they give to their children to eat.

What they do NOT need is to be given a tick list of what to, and what not to include!

Yet another example of the 'nanny state' going mad ...

Its salmon you can only have twice a week or you die

yes pointydog 'tis true

You can lead all the staff out of a school with a packet of Hobnobs, Pied Piper stylee

With a packet of Boasters it is like the final scene from Suskind's Perfume

MP god I hope so, my mum brought me up on tina tuna and cucumber sandwiches and I turned out alright

No Ivy that's pepparamis or crystal meth, I forget which is which.

the staffroom in the old school i worked in had a riduculas amount of biscuits and chocolate in

canned tuna isn't an oily fish according to the food standards agency. Canning reduces omega3 levels to teh same as white fish - ie really low. And it's full of blooming mercury. Shame, I like a nice tuna melt!

yes, I mean, whenever the head is saying thanks for something s/he brings in a load of tunnocks snowballs or twixes or chocolate tree decorations (at Christams) or mivvis (in summer).

You know I'm not kidding, I couldn't have made that up.

PLus every student (and we get about 10 a year) gives a huge box of biscuits as a leaving present which is devoured within two days.

PLus some kids' parents get those bogof offers of quality street and roses and a tin is often given to the staff.

A-wash

(parenst do that at Christmas, obv, if you're lucky - not all year round)

MP I work with a man who thinks Lemsips kill you are you related perchance?

Where I work we hide the chocolates we get at christams and usually have found them all by easter It saves thems out a bit cos we are not complete ganets....

Lemsips Jeez they are poison he is right

The other day I was talking to my ConsultantAboutMyBack and he said 'Take paracetamol every 4 hours for three months' and I said "Argh that will kill me!" and he said "hahaha! Aspartame will give you cancer before this does!"

which did not cheer me

DS regularly has oily fish in his lunchbox - in the form of a sardine or tinned mackerel sandwich.

But there is very little fruit and veg he will eat from a lunchbox - he eats loads of cooked hot veg. A shool lunchbox counts for 5 out of 35 meals a week.

DS eats a good healthy and varied diet - but I wouldn't be able to stick to that 'contract' - and would refuse on principle anyway.

Or are you supposed to give them all that only to throw it out when they get home? Or do they FORCE them to eat it?????

Both terrible options.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

I'm really sorry MP but your latest post has made me lolol at your comical doctor

If they sent my daughter home with a contract like this I would send it back in an envelope, torn into a thousand tiny pieces that I'd got my neighbour's dog to vomit on.

Fine to send home a request for no chocolate bars, no nuts or no fizzy drinks but how dare they try and dictate what MY child eats for her lunch?

And considering there are no refrigeration facilities for their lunchboxes how on earth are they going to maintain safety with some of the foodstuffs? In the height of summer I can just imagine how revolting fish and dairy will be.

I think everyone should present the teachers with cans of red kidney beans and wholesome tuna sandwiches at christmas

watch their little faces crumple