"I can't eat that..it's not healthy..." sigh... stupid school healthy lunch talks

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DS2 is starting to refuse things that he used to eat because school lessons deems them "unhealthy foods". I am trying to get him to understand that it's okay in moderation to eat things like chips or cheese....

I know they need to teach these things but he takes it much too seriously.

Been there done that. Had to nearly force-feed him macci-D several times to overcome it

It hasnt quite worked with Dd3, she keeps trying to convince me that green lolly pops are healthy

had a chaotic day and dh went to chippyand bought fishcakes and chips which he usually loves. grrrrr

Don't get me started on food topics - I could do an Olympic rant, gold medal standard.
Firstly the 'healthy food ' chat is very lame - well at least in the early years. It doesn't properly explain and is far too generalised.
Secondly, the school dinner service is supposed to be 'healthy meals' yet refuse to provide a meal to all 3 of my DSs as they do not consider the dietary information from the NHS dietician gives my DSs a healthy meal. So medically they cannot have certain food, but your cook has decided that if they don't have the food that the school dinner service have decided is healthy, then they cannot cook anything for them.
Did have to laugh though, when the school nurse did a chat to reception and kept going on about fruit and veg. A little girl put her hand up and told her that 'mummy won't give me fruit juice anymore as it rotted my teeth and had to have them all removed' .

oh, I am with you all the way.

luckily dd1 (who has the more extreme diet) is at a sensible school - we have to send lunch in everyday with her, as there is no catering at the school, and there is little comment on the contents of her lunchbox/flask. they are also more than happy to work with us towards introducing new foods.

dd2, however, is in ms. she has lots of traits, but no dx. I have had the healthy food lecture for what seems like the whole school year. and, like auntevil, I find that what the school serves up for her (used to be gf/cf, now 'just' cf) is so far from healthy that it is laughable. there is little fat in ehr school diet (no option for packed lunch), and seemingly every pudding (which are nicely balanced on the actual menu) is replaced with fruit for her - good up to a point, but she eats enough fruit, and could well do with some higher fats.

and don;t get me started ont he easy substitution of 'ham' for most meals. at one point in her nursery year, she ate ham or eggs for tea every day - and not naice ham either, I'll bet

Not helpful for children like mine who have been advised by the dietician to eat fatty foods to gain weight. Luckily, the "I can't eat that - it's not healthy" has always worn off after a couple of weeks.

Yes we struggle at mealtimes to get DS2 to eat, so I'm not happy with this develoment. Hopefully it will wear off quickly.

My son goes to a ss, where he is one of a number of children who need to put some weight on; so the healthy eating topics are not a lot of help to us either. In fact left to his own devices he does eat healthily anyway (he'd rather have a plate of veg than sweets, doesn't eat crisps or chips.......)
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We had a Fairtrade discussion the other day, prompted by school. Now I have nothing against fairtrade at all, but as for fruit and veg, I prefer to buy mine either frozen or from the local greengrocer where my 17 yr old DD works, so I get staff discount. I do not buy fairtrade. I buy local!! Hard to explain to a brainwashed 6 year old though.

My DS1's just been learning about organic food at school, and now thinks we should buy everything organic. They obviously didn't teach him economics at the same time

yes, all black and white.. no shades of grey... makes it so complicated