Packed lunch getting nicked

Nicki

cheepskate wrote: »

How do you know what he actually had for lunch, again I have not stated what he actually had. I have stated that the thief left him with a apple pack in his lunch box, that's all.



You have jumped to all sorts of assumptions, you should really look at yourself seriously and how you react to situations in life, you seem to misread situations and add whatever juicy bits you want in . No wonder we have all the !!!!!ing at the school gates

You said

1 all he had left in his lunchbox was a bag of fruit
2 he didn't tell the teacher what had happened
3 he would never take food from another child's lunch

So by a process of deduction, all he had to eat that day was fruit. Unless he managed to get a school dinner without asking an adult, or he did take something from another child.

I react fine to situations in life thanks and make a point never to !!!!! at the school gates or anywhere else. If I have a point to make, it's never behind anyone's back. In this case, I think it was your fault your child had a bad lunch that day, as even without the theft he would have still been hungry eating just what you packed him, and I think that parents have a responsibility to a primary school aged child to ensure they aren't left without food at school. Your child is what? About 7 I'd guess. I personally wouldn't have let my 7 year old (or indeed any of my children whatever their ages) go without a real lunch and on school trips I have been known to buy sandwiches for kids whose parents have sent them off with just chocolate and crisps to ensure they don't go hungry (with school's permission of course in case there are allergies).

Your reaction on the other hand seems to me like displaced guilt. Rather than facing up to your own role in what happened on that day, it's far easier to blame a young child or posters on MSE for the problem.

Mrs_Arcanum

Another issue may be the way schools store packed lunches. Often they are all just left in a large unsupervised tub, if no form of chilling is added to each child's lunch bag a sandwich and yoghurt could get pretty rancid by lunchtime, leaving only fruit still edible (and even then not bananas). So crisps & a biscuit may be the only other thing to safely take.

moomoomama27

rachbc wrote: »

A banana has between 80-120 cal depending on size, and apple 50-80. Plus lets not forget vitamins, minerals and fibre and slow release carbs - non of which are present in the penguin!

Walkers 35g bag of crisps is more like 180 cals too....

And yes I'll admit my dd has a cupcake in her lunch today (with extra sprinkles!), but there are also carrot sticks and fruit. She gets 1 sweet treat and 1 savory a week...

Walkers bag 129 calories, medium banana 150 calories - just checked, but that's beside the point, I was responding to the fact that the healthy food had more calories in, than the 'junk', not give a penguin instead of banana!

cheepskate_2

euronorris wrote: »

The childs food has been stolen that is the issue, the OP didn't ask 'what should I feed my child?'

Never understood this reasoning. If a friend approached me and asked for help with one problem, but it was obvious there was also another problem. Should I just pretend that the other problem doesn't exist?
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And i'd be pretty PI**ED off if my friend came and gave me a huge lecture on something, that they only had tiny fragment of info on and didnt even bother to find out the whole picture before launching into " how to be the perfect xyz"

moomoomama27

cheepskate wrote: »

And i'd be pretty PI**ED off if my friend came and gave me a huge lecture on something, that they only had tiny fragment of info on and didnt even bother to find out the whole picture before launching into " how to be the perfect xyz"

Exactly!

There are far more things to be concerned about than a choccie bar and a bag of crisps as part of a balanced healthy weight child!

warehouse

I really couldn't give 2 figs about what you feed your child, so am pretty appalled at some of the self righteous replies you've been getting.

What's the latest O.P.? Has this been sorted by the school yet?

euronorris

cheepskate wrote: »

And i'd be pretty PI**ED off if my friend came and gave me a huge lecture on something, that they only had tiny fragment of info on and didnt even bother to find out the whole picture before launching into " how to be the perfect xyz"

And I wouldn't do that either. I would ask more questions about the problem, and whether she was addressing it or not, before proceeding further with that conversation.

I believe that is what the posters on here have tried to do, but you haven't been very receptive. Which is your perogative, but it doesn't make them bad, or wrong.

And, FWIW, if my friend was ignoring a big problem, or not dealing with it well, I would still talk to her about it, whether she wanted me to or not. IMO, a good friend is brutally honest when required and I expect that from my friends.

euronorris

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Another issue may be the way schools store packed lunches. Often they are all just left in a large unsupervised tub, if no form of chilling is added to each child's lunch bag a sandwich and yoghurt could get pretty rancid by lunchtime, leaving only fruit still edible (and even then not bananas). So crisps & a biscuit may be the only other thing to safely take.

Not all sandwiches require chilling (though I agree some do) and bananas should be fine too. Yoghurt does need to be kept chilled, but you can just add a small freezer pack to the lunchbox if there is no chilling capability available at the school.

Nuts are a good option otherwise or a trail mix, but I think most schools ban them for allergy reasons.

cheepskate_2

euronorris wrote: »

I would ask more questions about the problem,

and you have a degree in?????. Because it doesn't go the way you do things, do you then perceive something to be a problem? Just curious, how you decide something is a problem without your friend saying it is.



I believe that is what the posters on here have tried to do, but you haven't been very receptive.

Again you perceived the problem- wrongly.

Sometimes some people seem to think if others are not doing it their way, then it has got to be wrong.

cheepskate_2

warehouse wrote: »

I really couldn't give 2 figs about what you feed your child, so am pretty appalled at some of the self righteous replies you've been getting.

What's the latest O.P.? Has this been sorted by the school yet?

Sorry, totally lost your post.

School has been excellent. All year x teachers have been informed as well as the someone- cant remember what his title is.
They are taking measures to isolate the times it can happen , so assume they are busy with it.

End of term is near so it may well continue into the next term.