DS gets fruit of any sort(often 2 serves just to be safe) a sandwich a small yoghurt and water while at kindy
DD at FDC gets all that and usually 2 sandwiches, crackers and salmon or crakers pickles cheese and ham, some times pasta salad, small tubs of fruit in fruit juice.
DS kindy dont like crackers or any biscuits.. i try and stick with nothing in a packet that is marketted to kids as often its high in sugar and salt..
Heh, that's pretty poor form. Would it have been so hard to just let it slide this once and pop a note in the lunchbox along the lines of 'We prefer a, b and c over x, y and z'??.... I was told when DD1 started daycare that obviously high-fat/sugar/salt items like potato chips, chocolate biscuits and chocolate-coated things were avoided, and peanuts were banned, so I've tried to work around that. It's hard, because DD1 is now notorious for her avoidance of fruit and vegies, but her standard lunch includes:
- a Granny Smith apple (she's just like her mum, only likes the green ones, I know she barely nibbles it but at least the offer's there)
- a chunk of cheese cut off the block and into cubes
- a tub of yoghurt (usually vanilla, but I try to sneak a strawberry one in every so often to get some extra fruit into her lol)
- a Vegemite/Cheeseybite sandwich on multigrain bread (sometimes I'll put meat, tomato and lettuce on it to switch it up)
- a box of sultanas
- a 'nutty bar' (one of those mini Brunch Bars, they're peanut-free but have chocolate on them, but I suppose they're okay for afternoon tea if I'm late picking DD up, she whinges for more food at 4pm so they give her the 'naughty' stuff then lol)
- a little tub of Nutella - I have asked the daycare ladies if she can be bribed with it, ie if she eats the fruit for morning tea she can have the Nutella, sometimes it comes home unopened so I know she's been naughty and not eaten her fruit.
- and a boiled, peeled egg for the protein and fullness. She loves her 'eggies' and at least I know it'll fill her belly a bit if she doesn't eat a proper morning tea.
Good luck finding something that works, kids are such fussy little creatures and now that daycares/kinders etc are banning things left right and centre it's hard to know what to put in their lunchbox!
Wow... It seems wrong to me that they can dictate what you feed your child... Maybe if they concentrated harder on teaching and less on fussing about what kind of muesli/fruit bar is 'acceptable' then kids these days would have better spelling and grammar!
I can understand the peanut thing, or the rationale behind it... but is it worse these days? I don't remember ever being told of concerns with peanuts when I was at school, much less had any schoolmates rushed to the hospital. Am I being naive?
^ No, I agree that it's going a bit far... the daycare centre my friend sends her son to has bans on all nut products, and dairy, eggs, soy and gluten depending on what day of the week it is (because of the attendance of particular kids with allergies to said products). Eg Monday and Thursday no eggs products, Tuesdays no gluten, and Monday no dairy etc... personally I think that's taking it a bit over the line, as far as I know coeliac's only affects the sufferer when gluten is ingested, so I don't see why it's so risky to have gluten products in the centre at all on that day because of it, kwim?
Eh, maybe I have it all wrong (and please feel free to correct me if you know something I don't, like I said I'm going purely on what my friend told me), but yeah, I think that's a bit extreme.
Ok, I'm speaking on the sideof the pre schools here, when I say that sometimes it is warrented in us having such strict guidelines of what should be in lunches. You would be surprised in what some people will feed their kids all day. For many familie's they know that some things are sometimes foods, but many others will make a lunch of say, a white bread jam sandwich, a chocolate bar and a packet of chips. With some undiluted juice, cordial or even soft drink. All of those things as a once off sometimes food in a lunch box are fine, but all put together as the only food a child gets all day is just one way to make a child hyper and is just plain unhealthful! Plus when we have children in our care with sever anaphalaxis, you don't want to be taking any chances. Yes it is a PITA to be trying to find appropriate foods, but I'd rather p!ssed off parents who give their kids the same lunch all the time than a dead child in my care. I have seen a child in an anaphylaxic fit, it's not pretty. And shoving that needle into her little thigh, well, it makes me shudder rememebring.
As a parent who feeds my child healthy foods the majority of the time, with an occaisional snack though, I do find that some places go too far. The centre my DD goes to brought in a new food policy last year and was sending home things like rice crackers and snack pack custards. It was ridiculous. They have slackened a bit now and will let DD have rice crackers, and muesli bars, but still reiterate they don't want things like sweet buscuits, chocolate covered bars, chips, or any kind of soft drinks. Which, in my opinion, is all fair enough. If we want to feed our kids special snack foods like that, then they can eat it at home.
Foods I send for DD include pasta/rice/noodle dishes, boiled eggs, egg/tuna/ham/cheese/chicken sandwiches, crackers, fruit salad, fresh fruit, tubs of fruit, vege sticks with cream cheese spread to dip into, home made muffins/piklets, mini quiches/fritatas, cerial in a tub (no milk!!), dried fruit, chicken drumsticks, yogurt, milk poppers.
HTH
Last edited by MrsFabuloso; February 17th, 2010 at 09:16 PM.
It's so disheartening as a parent to be told your doing the 'wrong' thing like that, isn't it?
Haven't got much advice, but hope you can come to some sort of compromise..
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