Mum’s fury after school ‘lunchbox police’ tell her off for putting this one item in her daughter’s bag

A LIVID mum has blasted the "lunchbox police" at her daughter's new school after she got a phone call complaining about a biscuit found in the youngster's bag.

School staffers asked the baffled mum to come in to be scrutinised about what was in her six-year-old daughter's lunchbox.

Sharing her story with other parents on Mumsnet, she vented her frustration that the school failed to notice the healthy grub included in the homemade meal.

It included a cheese and ham mini wrap with lettuce, cucumber and red onion in, six cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks and hummus.

She wrote: "Just had a phone call from school and asked if I could go in for a chat regarding [darling daughter's] lunch."

The mum explained her child gets free school meals except on Wednesdays, because the food on the menu that day gives her an upset tummy.

She said: "I am irritated as the teacher has looked in [her] lunch bag this morning which I feel is out of order if I'm total honest.

"So the offending item which she has had the last few Wednesdays as there is 10 in a pack is a mini Pick Up Bar.

"I was a bit taken aback just now on the phone so didn't say much at all, now I need to know what to say at by meeting this afternoon."

She fumed that the school should have "more to worry about" than a tiny chocolate biscuit.

Other mums blasted the school's lunch box policing, pointing outing that school dinners are rarely as healthy as homemade packed lunches.

One advised: "Ask them what was on the pudding menu today.";

While another fumed: "Most schools seem to have ridiculous packed lunch rules now that don't seem to apply to the school dinners which they try to push you to taking up."

Someone else added: "Seems like a gigantic waste of everyone's time. Her lunch sounds absolutely fine and normal."

One parent indicated the school's call could have been regarding allergies. They said: "Seems silly to me, her lunchbox sounds healthy enough. Could it be to do with allergies? Does it have nuts in?"

Jammy Dodgers and other sugar treats have led to parents receiving phone calls from schools, in cases that have become all to common across the UK.

Another parent on the site told of her outrage when her daughter came home crying on her birthday because teachers ordered her not to eat the cake in her lunch box.

She said: "It comes round to her birthday and I put a Mr Kipling lunchbox slice in her lunch with a little note on it saying happy birthday as a nice surprise for her birthday.

"She came home with it uneaten and really upset saying she’d been told off and not to eat it."

Some mums didn't understand why there was such outrage over the strict school policy on sweets and chocolate, as they're only trying to do ensure children eat healthily.

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