Packed lunches and the "food police"

Uniscots97

Spendless wrote: »

This is exactly why I'm against squash in packed lunches. Kids don't get used to drinking water and so don't want to, especially when there is a sweeter alternative on offer. I used to tell my Dad the "I don't like water" too. His reply was if I was in The sahara dying I'd drink it.

Have to agree I hear this so often "I'm thirsty can I get coke/lemonade etc etc (insert brand name fizzy carp)", yet if they're offered water as there's no fizzy rubbish then suddenly they're not thirsty anymore!

Uniscots97

honey28 wrote: »

Is this recipe anywhere on the site? I fancy making some of them.
Thanks

Check out the recipe index in the sticky at the top of this board. There's recipes in there for all these and more, oh and check out Twink's hobnobs on this site they are delicious!

Sarahsaver

vivaladiva wrote: »

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?

The Stanley food flask keeps food hot up to 5 hours. You put the food in cold and microwave it then put the lid on. Its hot enough to eat but not so it would maim or injure LOL.
Ds got a BLUNT knife confiscated once as i had given him a chunk of HM bread and a chunk of cheese and a banana and he wanted to make his own sarnie at lunchtime.
My kids have had sandwiches, cold pasta, noodles (also cold pre food flask!) pies, sausage rolls, pizza, wraps, crackers and cheese/salami and so on. Their classmates who take fizzy drink, BIG bags of crisps, chocolate - all against the 'rules' seem to be beyond reproach.
My DD is home educated

Had to laugh to myself one day last week, I was at the school office paying for milk and swimming lessons, and another parent was there. They had come to tell the school that their child was 'unable to eat cold food so they have to have hot food, i will be bringing them their hot dinner each day where shall I bring it to' Erm... why don't they go home for lunch

donnajt

When my DD started school, I told her the Headmaster only allowed the following for PL - sandwich, fruit, yogurt, cheese, drink - to this day (she is now year 4), she reports which Mum/child have broken the Headmaster's rules. From time to time I break this rule by giving her pasta or HM leftover pizza which she really enjoys, however they take longer to eat and the rest of her lunch goes straight into the bin:mad:

When the school introduced "Grab a bag" on Friday's (pizza, burger, fishfinger, hotdog and chips (yes Friday is the only day any of these foods are served), I relented and allowed DD to have a packet of crisps in her PL on Friday, however the cheese is omited

Our School adopts the Healthy Eating policy and fizzy drinks, chocolate bars etc are not supposed to be allowed in PL - however, so many parents ignore it, i can't personally imagine anything worse for the teachers when kids are full of crap in the afternoons

even worse...kids eating crisps/sweets/chocolate on the way into school in the morning - hello get up a bit earlier and give your kids proper brekkie

Deep breath - RANT over lol!

brightonman123

apart from telling peeps to get a life, i would say its a special diet, and my parents like the taste too-

they call it the 'credit crunch'... lol

pennyocs

Sarahsaver wrote: »

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.

is that one of those short fat flasks? ive looked everywhere for one (obviously not wilkinsons) my 9 year old son wants one so he can take homemade veg soup and hm bread,and chilli, he loves taking in different stuff to the other kids he usually takes a roll of hm granary bread with ham, a pot of fruit salad and a piece of hm cake or flapjack,
there is a boy in his class who eats his breakfast in the yard a kitkat, and takes 2 bags crisps and a choc bar for dinner,the school have tried to talk to his parents but they dont seem to care

Sarahsaver

yep thats the thing;) i think lakeland sell them too.

Sarahsaver

http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/0248968

MrsE_2

thriftmonster wrote: »

I have spoken to the school in the past as have other parents and they have tried to discuss it in assembly etc but it makes no difference. To be honest I think a lot of it comes fr4om the parents - one mother at last sports day said to me "oh your son is the one with the funny food that should be hot" - apparently this referred to chicken drumsticks etc.

If all those parents who wanted to change things actually did, then a white ham sandwich wouldn't be the norm in the packed lunches

MrsE_2

I'm amazed at the amount of posts on here who refer to other children saying the lunches are not the same as everyone else, ect as bullying.

Is that really seen as bullying nowadays?

Whatever happened to banter between kids?

Are kids not allowed to take the mick a little & tease each other anymore with it being bullying?

When I had a packed lunch at school for days trips ect I ALWAYS had egg sandwiches, I liked them, they were my favourite, so I asked for them.

Before the day even came the other kids used to say XXXXX you're not taking egg sandwiches again are you they smell!

I would bring my egg sandwiches:D

After a while they smell a bit & someone would say XXXXX you brought egg sandwiches!

And I would say yeah:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

It wasn't bullying, it was banter. I would tease them about things;)
Can kids not do that anymore