Is Soreen Malt Loaf healthy?

meeps

I have given my son (7) malt loaf for his packed lunch in the past and he asked me not to give it to him again, as 'someone might think its chocolate cake' - I think now the kids have been taught what foods are 'not recommended' there is an element of over zealousness amongst the kids themselves. I did say he'd just have to explain it is a fruit loaf but he also doesn't want to stand out- I was a kid who was teased for all sorts of curious items like kabanos and kumquats, so I keep things as boring as he seems to want, with a little treat on Friday, as that seems to be the norm.

newcook

a girl I went to junior school with only ate peanut butter and jam sandwiches - every day for 3 years!!!!

peachyprice

meeps wrote: »

I have given my son (7) malt loaf for his packed lunch in the past and he asked me not to give it to him again, as 'someone might think its chocolate cake' - I think now the kids have been taught what foods are 'not recommended' there is an element of over zealousness amongst the kids themselves. I did say he'd just have to explain it is a fruit loaf but he also doesn't want to stand out- I was a kid who was teased for all sorts of curious items like kabanos and kumquats, so I keep things as boring as he seems to want, with a little treat on Friday, as that seems to be the norm.

See, my girl, if she liked it, would take it because someone might think it's chocolate cake, she'd get great satisfaction telling them that actually it was fruit loaf

peachyprice

newcook wrote: »

a girl I went to junior school with only ate peanut butter and jam sandwiches - every day for 3 years!!!!

My DD only has Laughing Cow cheese sandwiches, every single day . Although she does have a good variety of stuff to go with it.

A girl I went to school with would only eat chicken and prawns, for lunch and dinner, every day.

pinkmami

can't be worse than the sh*t they serve in school nowadays!

Keep giving it to her....stand up for what you believe.

Thankfully there are no food police in the local school. I give my 9 yr old a cereal bar/flapjack every morning cos she's hungry by 10:30 even though she's had some breakfast (not one to eat lots early in the morning). I told the headmistress she'd be eating it & she said there was no problem.

Some schools policies grate on me.

Gigglepig

Personally I don't think there is any need to give 4-5 year olds cake, biscuits, chocolate bars, sugar added yoghurts, or for that matter crisps, chips, sausage rolls, pies etc etc etc every day.

Looking at the lunch box OP I would keep one portion of fruit but drop the malt loaf/sugar added yoghurt, at least during the week. I'd rather add a portion of vegetables to complement the fruit (out of 5 a day, four from veg), whole grain products and proteins...

However, parents obviously do what they like, and nobody likes being told what to feed their kids!

I also agree the school should have approached you first (the less confrontational the better) rather than your 4yo. And, the school dinners people describe sound pretty bad.

DUTR

puddy wrote: »

but the satsuma and grapes were ok which are nearly 100% sugar?

There is no but about it, as an adult, you should eat it in moderation, so would be worse for a child.
Me sees a case of type 2 diabetes before time

Mojisola

Buttonmoons wrote: »

There is a boy in my DD's school that brings a pita bread in for lunch everyday, every single day......a pita bread is his lunch. Apparently that is all he will eat. Nice healthy diet then!

One of mine went through a whole winter taking one slice of bread with butter on it for his lunch - if anything else was put in to the box, it came home uneaten. Sometimes kids do go through these phases.

I always wondered what the dinner ladies thought of my parenting skills, especially as I was a governor at the time!

pukkamum

Interestingly enough after i commented on this thread wondering if the lunch box wars were a ruse to get parents putting their kids on school dinners and that there had been a lunch box survey at our school last week, we recieved a letter from school today asking people to check if they were entitled to free school meals as the school gets £488 per year to spend as they like for every child registered with free school meals!!!!!

How long before the kids lunches are policed which they aren't at the moment making it 'easier' for parents to put kids on school meals thatn follow all the 'rules'?

Becles

Teacher had a word this evening and said it was a misunderstanding and they are allowed malt loaf in their lunchboxes. Pleased I said something now and got it cleared up, rather than worrying about it and stopping her from having the malt loaf.

She was playing on the CBeebies website earlier and found a recipe for a honey tea loaf that she wants to bake at the weekend. Stay tuned for tea loaf-gate next week :rotfl:
Recipe here if anyone is interested:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/icancook/makes/icancook-honeytealoaf/