School lunch rant - Would you complain?

Angel1978_2

Thanks GobbledyGook. I've gone down the freezer bag route now too.

You know when the principle of something just hacks you off though??? She is MY daughter and I WANT her to put her rubbish in the bin!!! :mad: :mad:

Perhaps i'm a little hormonal!

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Now thats just weird - why on earth would they stop the children putting finished items (banana skins/empty yoghurt cups) in the bin? I'd understand if a child was continuously not eating their sandwhiches or something. They do this at nursery - if she only eats 2 of her four little squares of sarnies they'll put em back in so we are aware, or a whole unpealed banana or something - but never wrappers and skins.

Poor kids, they are all going to be dreadfully confused by all of this tosh!

DKLS

Perhaps suggest to the head teacher that they invite someone from Beat the ED charity to educate the staff on how to communicate with parents and pupils regarding food, as the way she is at the moment could well set some pupils on the road to and ED.

GobbledyGook

I know how you feel Angel1978. I've been feeling really insulted over the whole lunch issue. It's like an insinuation you can't/don't/won't look after your children right.

I'm also trying not to react as they never had an issue with her lunches before I split up with my ex-husband. The rational me knows that's probably because the TA supervising them has changed, but the pregnant, hormonal me feels like they are joining in on the picking on me!

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Ziplocks are deffo good if your little one can handle them (mines just turning 4 so prob not) but £1shop do those mini plastic clip lock boxes which are great too. We do one for sarnies, another slightly smaller for fruit thats cut up and if need be her cupcake or biscuit goes in with her sarnie - the two boxes and any additional bits like her drink all fit nicely into the lunch bag she has and is still light enough for her to carry every day

No crumbs in the lunch bag, and hardly any mess to clean each eve - and i save on the cling film and clearing packaging stuffs that used to sometime come back!

*onlyme*

Our school allow the kids to dispose of their left overs or packaging. The banana skins, orange peels etc go on a compost heap, and rubbish is split between recycleble and non recycleble.

I wonder if some schools send it back home so it is less rubbish for them to get rid off?

shellsuit

My son lost his lunch box in school a few years ago.

A couple of months later, his teacher proudly held it out to me one day and exclaimed that she had found it.

It had his lunch in it still. :cool:




My daughter mentioned to me when they were in junior school that they didn't have a bin to empty their lunch boxes into ~ I used to go mad, cos crusts mixed with juice, banana and yoghurt isn't very nice to clean out, especially on a warm day when it's all gone hot and sweaty.

The teachers had a bin, but the kids didn't ~ go figure!

clare1076

Hi my son has taken the same packed lunch in for the last year and a half as he won't eat anything different. He takes meat sandwiches, a choc pud, i try a piece of fruit but it always comes back untouched, a fruit shoot drink and a small pack of biscuits. I'm waiting for the school to say something but up to now they've been fine, my son is not overweight in fact he's probably underweight he's only 5.

He also comes home with his rubbish as the school says he must show what he has actually eaten. there are also occasions when he has only eaten his sandwiches because he says he doesn't have time to finish his lunch as he's in the infants and they have to get the juniors in to have there lunch, but i've told him he must eat his lunch however long it takes.

GobbledyGook

clare1076 - I wouldn't be happy if he's not getting time to finish his lunch. That's one thing I can't fault my daughter's school on - the children must stay in the dinner hall or packed lunch room for at least 30 minutes. If they've finished then they have to sit at the tables and talk to their friends or whatever. They brought that rule in because lots of the children (especially the packed lunches) were gulping down half a sandwich then dashing out to play. They preferred having a longer playtime than finishing their lunch.

triticale

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle wrote: »

Ziplocks are deffo good if your little one can handle them (mines just turning 4 so prob not) but £1shop do those mini plastic clip lock boxes which are great too. We do one for sarnies, another slightly smaller for fruit thats cut up and if need be her cupcake or biscuit goes in with her sarnie - the two boxes and any additional bits like her drink all fit nicely into the lunch bag she has and is still light enough for her to carry every day

No crumbs in the lunch bag, and hardly any mess to clean each eve - and i save on the cling film and clearing packaging stuffs that used to sometime come back!

+1 for pound shop cliplock boxes! :j I have a couple for my work lunch as well. DD(8) stuffs all the rubbish neatly into hers.

DD(5) has more of a problem as she always has a banana (her sister prefers apples), which together with the empty yoghurt pot can make a lovely grey sludgy mess inside the lunch box by the end of the day!

She now stuffs the banana skin firmly into the yog pot to minimise the mess. Tried plastic sandwich bags for rubbish for a bit but I hated the wastefulness of it.

Initially I too was bemused by them bringing rubbish home, but it's really helpful now so I can see if DD(5) hasn't eaten her butties (if for instance I've changed the bread).

As a side note, their school (thankfully) have never gone down the 'lunchbox police' route. One of DD(8)'s friends apparently has nutella sandwiches, chocolate bar and chocolate mousse as a lunch.

We discussed what a shame this was for her, that she didn't get to have lovely plums or yoghurt and would probably feel really tired later on.