> Yesterday I gave my 7 year old daughter ONE Fun-sized Milky Way in her lunchbox. She also had a chucked-together homemade wrap, a packet of mini cheddars, an apple and a drink. Brooke came home last
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Yesterday I gave my 7 year old daughter ONE Fun-sized Milky Way in her lunchbox. She also had a chucked-together homemade wrap, a packet of mini cheddars, an apple and a drink. Brooke came home last night and told me that the dinner lady midday supervisior had told her that she wasn’t allowed to eat it, as it was chocolate. BUT she was allowed it if it had biscuit or wafer inside.
So questioning the schools policy on chocolate I find out that if you want to send in a double Twix chocolate bar then that is allowed. If you want to send in a Toffee Crisp, then that is allowed. The list goes on….But a Fun-size Milky Way is not allowed.
So today, in my rebellious frame of mind, I send her to school with a Fun-size Milky Way in her lunchbox with instructions to tell the dinner lady that if she has a problem with Brooke eating it, then she is to call me and I will discuss it with her.
So tonight I pick her up from school and she tells me that it’s still in her lunchbox, as the dinner lady told her she wasn’t allowed it, she had dismissed Brookes comment of ‘ringing mummy’ and was just told to put it back in the lunchbox or it would be confiscated.
Now I am all for healthy eating, all three of my children have been bought up to eat a healthy varied diet. Part of this varied diet does include treats, it would be a pretty boring life if treats were not allowed ever!!
A Fun-size Milky Way has the following Nutritional Facts.
As a parent I have made the conscious decision to give my child a Funsize Milky Way as part of her lunch, why do dinnerladies feel the need to undermine this decision? And what is the theory behind their madness? The school can’t even jusify it.
If all chocolate was banned from school, then that is fair enough, I would respect that, and give her something different. But chocolate isn’t banned, you just have to make sure it includes something with a biscuit or wafer in. Which probably has more calories in than the flaming Funsize Milky Way!!
>Goodness! How stupid! I could understand if all chocolate was banned but to allow one type and not other is just ridiculous! The world is going mad! Carry on putting it your daughters lunchbox! X
>That is truly pathetic!!! I understand lunchtime rules being there to protect the kid whose parent gives them nothing but a king size Mars Bar and a Family sized bag of crisps for their lunch…but banning one 76 calorie Milky Way which was part of a balanced diet…that is ridiculous. And making a child feel bad about eating food is setting an appalling example at an impressionable age!
>That is ridiculous, and the fact that the school didn't even call you despite you asking them too is bad as well. It does wind me up, since when are we incapable of deciding what goes in our childrens lunch boxes?! Grrrrr
>I'm glad it isn't just me! xx
>Indeed! That is a very valid point, these are young impressionable girls! Hopefully she will listen to me over what they say :S xx
>Exactly, glad it's not just me that gets mad over it! xx
>OMG, they need to sort their rules out, i would rather give my kids a milky way than a double twix bar. I think they have banned chocolate from most schools round here but that is ALL chocolate. rediculous
>and thats why I send my children for school dinners, and you know what there they get given choclate sponge cake and custard (errmmm no biscuit or waffer in that!) or such like. The whole 'healthy' eating thing buggs me because you see more young children developing anorexia and such like than ever before. eating disorders run both ways not just overweight but underweught causes problems too and telling young children NOT to eat imo is pretty damaging 🙁 I always tell mine they can eat anything they like as long as they eat other things too, so we have cakes, chocolate, biscuits, crisps and sweets but we also have fruit and veg and fresh meat etc etc
>I agree, I always put in a small treat for my oldest. I think everything in moderation. I do not think the school should dictate what you feed your children x
>WOW I cannot believe that! I think I would actually go into the school at lunch and have words with this dinner lady… then sit and watch my child enjoy their lunch… i put chocolate in my sons nursery lunch, only like a chocolate mousse or a small kitkat but that goes with 2 pieces of fruit and healthy sarnies…
>So if a child's lunchbox included only food that was deemed unacceptable would the child be made to go hungry all day? The importance of a healthy diet cannot be overstated but I believe that the key to all of this is moderation. A small milky way as a daily treat is far better than many snacks which appear to be healthier – a flapjack say. The presence of biscuit or wafer in a chocolate bar does not make it healther – in fact for many it would probably be much worse. I think the school needs to look at some uniformity in it's rulings, either that or educate the dinner ladies better.
>Well I am also agree with it but if the decision is taken then it is for the benefits only. It is necessary for the parents to follow the rule as it is beneficial for the children only.
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>I would make a point of ringing the school every morning to ask what to add to the lunch box today. After about a week I would hope they would get bored and realise how silly their rules are x
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