Primary school inspects children's lunchboxes for unhealthy food

[Grimmlok]

crisco isn't lard, it's vegetable shortening

[cynic]

Oh the idea of lard makes me sick. How gross.

.....they even put lard in green string beans here.....which puts a whole different spin on the theory that eating vegetables is good for you.....and, they put brown sugar and whipped cream on yams.....they don't have a food pyramid here....they have more of a food circle....

Ooooh! Candy!


BTW, Cynic, I know someone who claims that you can have hours and hours of adult orientated fun with cling film (shrink wrap).

...this is what happens when women send men into the kitchen to cook for them....we spend a lot of time thinking of MUCH more creative ways to use the equipment..........which leads to my amusement when women always ask us what we are thinking about.....

[Tati]

I would argue that the school doesn't even have a right to determine what foods children eat. They can determine what they choose to serve, but not what food you bring from home, and that goes for nuts,too. We're not talking about bringing handguns to school here. Plenty of kids can enjoy a candy bar and not turn into a tub of lard.

I think if they can determine what a kid wears, they can set a policy about what they eat... not saying they necessarily should, mind you, just that if it's a known school policy then they do have that right.

But yeah... we never had a policy like this, and the kids in my class always had generally healthy lunches with the occasional small treat. Especially around Halloween or Easter - parents would usually toss in one treat each day to try to use them up.

A lot of kids had home-baked cookies or muffins too, and those could easily have been healthier (whole grains, fruit, healthy oils, etc.) than a bologna sandwich on white bread... so where do you make the distinction? I'd be pretty pissed if a school confiscated an oatmeal-honey-apple cookie that I had baked for my kid, while leaving another kid's canned MSG soup or white bread alone.

Of course we always had recess too - an hour total for lunch and break, plus 15 minutes in the morning and in the afternoon. And our school was tiny, they didn't serve any food of their own or have any vending machines, so they weren't about to impose restrictions on what parents chose to pack. I think it'd be one thing to have a general policy that involved awareness and newsletters for parents, and quite another to have a policy of confiscation.

[Charmed Hour]

crisco isn't lard, it's vegetable shortening

I know, but it looks horrid in the tub. My grandmother keeps bacon fat and that grosses me out too. I guess it's the congealed, greasy look it all gets.