Packed lunches and the "food police"

Penny-Pincher!!

I would say it depends on the childs appetite. My DD couldnt survive on that..LOL.

DD (11) has a sarnie, 2 pieces of fruit, handful of raisins, yogurt, HM Fork biscuit, crisps (sometimes) and a drink of water/squash.

We are entitled to free school dinners but after alot of problems we have been feeding her ourselves with the above.

PP
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Kimberley

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

I would say it depends on the childs appetite. My DD couldnt survive on that..LOL.

DD (11) has a sarnie, 2 pieces of fruit, handful of raisins, yogurt, HM Fork biscuit, crisps (sometimes) and a drink of water/squash.

We are entitled to free school dinners but after alot of problems we have been feeding her ourselves with the above.

PP
xx

Yeah but i have 3 to cater for :eek: Mine only have about 10 mins to eat their lunch as well. I think then maybe a sandwich, fruit, drink and i'll sqeeze a homemade Flapjack in as well.

So er what is the favourite Flapjack recipe on here, any that any child would love? :rolleyes:

Sarahsaver

Mine don't get enough TIME to eat more than a fruit, a sarnie and drink their drink
They usually have one other thing such as a carrot, frube, dried fruit or on Fridays it's the one day I let them have some cheap crisps or a chocolate biscuit.

Kimberley

Sarahsaver wrote:

Mine don't get enough TIME to eat more than a fruit, a sarnie and drink their drink
They usually have one other thing such as a carrot, frube, dried fruit or on Fridays it's the one day I let them have some cheap crisps or a chocolate biscuit.

Ok thats an ideal to give an extra treat on Fridays :rolleyes:

Spendless

thriftmonster wrote:

). A lot of schools really seem to rush lunchtimes - my kids have just over 10 mins to eat which also limits what they can eat..

Yes this used to happen where I worked. The school dinner children took priority over the packed lunch kids who only came in at the end, on 2 different sittings, the youngest first as they (in general) tended to eat more slowly than the older ones. In addition I was not allowed to put a school dinner children and packed lunch children on the same table. that is incredibly frustating when you have 1 slow eating school dinner kid holding up a table for 8 and a queue of packed lunch kids and the clock ticking away.

Becles

Kimberley wrote:

What i want to know without sounding like a scrooge is whether a sandwich and some fruit in a container is enough for them without anything else except a drink??

Today mine have taken a round of ham sandwiches on brown HM bread, pretzels, a plum and some fresh pineapple.

I usually work on the basis of:
a main item - sandwiches, filled tortilla, pasta salad
a side item - pretzels, crackers, yoghurt, crisps (but just occasionally!)
then fresh fruit, salad veg, carrot sticks or fruit salad (as much as they want, but a minimum of 1 item)

That's enough to fill a 9 year old and a 7 year old. If they have been really good, I sometimes slip a choccy biccy in as a surprise.

starlorna22

When I was 4 I used to get school dinners and all the bigger kids used to end up eating my dinner - I hardly got chance to eat anything!!
This was because the school had a stupid rule that everyone on the table had to have finished all their lunch before they could go out to play. My birthday's in August, so I had only just gone 4 years old, and I always ended up with no dinner :sad:
After a few weeks of this I started crying to my mum who went in and spoke to the headmaster - and got me swapped to packet lunches straight away . . .
I'd hope this isn't a rule they still follow

Sarahsaver

Great idea!
My DS1 has now got one of those Stanley food flasks, about £5 from Wilkinsons, so he can have hot food from time to time. Ha had risotto last friday He's 8 years old and a bit of a gourmet foodie already!
Today they have cheese sandwich, a flapjack, a fruit and a drink. I am still doing the 'treat day' thing on fridays, so then have a small bag of crisps then. I am annoyed that last week DS1 came home with crisps twice because one of his friends was given TWO BAGS of crisps by his Mum in his lunch bag. DS said he sometimes gives his friend a fruit because his friend wants to be healthy like him :eek:
Shame the 'lunchtime supervisors' don't pick up on this in the same way that they like to pick up on what my kids eat. Several times I've had the 'what is that you are supposed to bring a sandwich' comment relayed back to me

vivaladiva

Has anyone else had the no flasks due to health and safety argument from school? Risk of scalding/burns apparently.

ETA I should add that this is primary school. Although if any parent is daft enough to give a child food that is so hot that it poses a health risk.......... And where do you find a flask that maintains this temperature for 3-4 hours?

raphanius

quite a lot of the kids in the school operate a "food police" and if you don't have ham sandwich on white bread, branded chocolate biscuit and branded crisps and drink then the stick you get is unbelievable.

this is one of many reasons why we are home educating our 6 year old son.

it makes my blood boil to see school kids preaching the dominant idealogy of the marketing men. this country is becoming sooo americanised with its attitudes to products that unless we atke a stand we will end up with the same extreme rich/poor divide as the states. i've lost count of the number of women i know who feel they are jusged by the products they buy and this all stems from the 'lonely feeling' we felt in the playground for not having the right 'things'. the big companies are playing us like violins in order to line their own pockets with our debt.

ok rant over