School lunch rant - Would you complain?

londoner1998

My God!!!!

One word springs to mind: IGNORANCE

Speak to the Head of the school and tell him/her what you think.

And ther eis no way I woudl be paying to that horrible meal...

Good luck, you need the patience of a saint with schoold these days...

dizziblonde

*onlyme* wrote: »

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?

Generally the reasoning behind it is that parents get to see how much of the lunch that their kids have actually eaten.

Indie_Kid

triticale wrote: »

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.

I can understand them doing it in cases like this; but not when children have things like described in the OP.

I used to know someone whose brother got his orange juice taken off him.

When I was at primary school, nothing like this happened. We were allowed to eat whatever our parents gave us.

looby75

shellsuit wrote: »

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:

_pale_ nice lol

I agree with everyone else on the thread that the food police thing is getting out of hand now.

Like Becles my ds gets free school meals as part of a pilot scheme being run in Durham and a few other parts of the country, but before that he took packed lunches. The head of the school is a total tyrant about "healthy eating" they only drink they were allowed to take was water, and then she even stopped them taking their own bottled water in because some parents were sending in flavoured water and she wasn't happy about that :eek:

IMO the packed lunches I sent my son in with were much healthier than what he eats now, he has cake and custard as a desert quite regularly (we weren't allowed to but cake biscuits or anything processed in their lunch boxes or it got confiscated and then sent home with a snotty letter) and often there isn't enough left over for the kids on last sitting...yesterday ds got a cheese sandwich for his lunch, it was the only thing left :mad: I asked one of my friends who works as a dinner lady at the school if it was right and she confirmed it was and that they have been having some problems because the co that supply's the food decided there was too much wastage and have started sending less food in! Apparently is going to be sorted out by Monday but has been going on for about a month.

DS also went through a phase of refusing to eat any cheese, ham or chips (oven chips as that's all we ever have) he said that they learnt in school they can give you cancer :eek::eek::eek: I went and asked his teacher about it and apparently when they were doing something about healthy eating in class another pupil asked out loud if what he had heard on the telly about ham giving you cancer was true, and the teacher replied that some doctors thought that eating processed food such as cheese, ham and ready meals can cause cancer....ds was 7 at the time.

Indie_Kid

looby75 wrote: »

IMO the pact lunches I sent my son in with were much healthier than what he eats now, he has cake and custard as a desert quite regularly (we weren't allowed to but cake biscuits or anything processed in their lunch boxes or it got confiscated and then sent home with a snotty letter)

Why is it one rule for children with packed lunches and another for those with school lunches?

looby75

sh1305 wrote: »

Why is it one rule for children with packed lunches and another for those with school lunches?

many parents, myself included asked the exact same thing and were given some dismissive answer about them being part of a nutritionally balanced meal for school dinners but they couldn't say that for packed luches as they were all different so it was much easier to just ban all packed lunch children from eating those things.

Spendless

*onlyme* wrote: »

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?

When I worked as a school dinner lady even I wasn't allowed to put the waste from packed lunches into the school dinner waste. Caused problems when someone had dumped their sarnies under the table, I had to look for a classroom bin. So I don't believe that all the time it's 'so you can see what your child eats'. Though I never asked the official reason my guess it is something to do with the local council and their 'rules' on collecting waste.

If people want to know, I'd suggest e-mailing their council cos if you discover it really is a school rule maybe you can work on getting the HT to change it...if it's a council one well erm -...good luck. Though you might want to run it by any local councillors that come knocking on your door between now and next week.:D

*onlyme*

It is an eye opener how it is all so different from school to school.

Stephb1986_2

Who does that woman think she is! I don't mean it funny but this is your child and you know what to feed her and it's your choice not theirs they aren't her parents. Like pizza is that healthy anyway it's a block of lard!

I don't know what is the world coming to when I was a kid we could eat anything!

Steph xx

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Also when we were kids we ate fruit and veg without even thinking about the health reasons...we just ate it coz it was food and given to us, lol! Where has it gone wrong??? Now kids are having it drummed into them that if they have a treat or a peice of ham they'll get 'fat' or get cancer.

The must have this, and musn't have such and such dictating is seriously damaging imo! Any parent with common sense will feed their child decent food, they should only be allowed to question those with seriously unhealthy lunchboxes!!!