Healthy eating has come to DS1's (SLD/PMLD) school. So now of course DS1 isn't eating at all (except in the classroom where they are still alowed to eat crap- it's the school dinners than have been changed). He was making real progress with food as well. After years of only eating gluten free bread and pizza school had managed to introduce chips and potato waffles and some meat and fish (in the form of gf fishfingers and chicken nuggets)- first meat and fish in 4 years so a major achievement. It's unreliable - but he will still eat fishfingers and nuggets very occasionally at home (refuses often).
They are apparently allowed to eat potato waffles once a month (?) and chips occasionally. BUt on days when those aren't served he'll eat a packet of crisps and a biscuit and occasionally a yoghurt and that's it (so of course behaviour goes because he's hungry and he comes home and starts trying to wolf down anything he can get his hands on- ie biscuits).
Now I'm sure healthy eating is lauadable in ms, and I'm sure it should be encouraged in SLD/PMLD, but to remove the alternatives when so many of the children have problems with food. ....
DS1's teacher is having a nightmare from the sounds of it.
Any ideas- packed lunches don't realy go down well- it would just be more crisps. Of course this could lead to him regressing in trying new foods and we could be back to pizza and biscuits and nothing else. I worry as well that if he's only seeing chips/potato waffles very occasionally he'll stop eating those as well- let alone fish fingers etc and we'll be well and truly stuffed again.