Reply #4: What does this "sugar-free school" entail? [View All]

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Is the principal reviewing the lunches parents pack, and banning sugar from them? That's probably overstepping. Keeping sugar out of the vending machines, school-provided lunches and off the bus (we weren't allowed to eat anything on the bus, ever) is probably a good idea.

My first-grade teacher would routinely go through everyone's lunches, and send home notes for every student who had more than one "no-no" food. Problem was, just about everything was a no-no. White bread. Jelly. Sweetened peanut butter -- so a PB&J made with Skippy would be three no-nos right there. (Natural, no-salt peanut better with 100% fruit spread or sliced bananas on whole wheat was OK.) Chips, cookies, etc. were also bad.

My lunches were usually some sort of packaged lunch meat (or occasionally PB&J) on my grandfather's bakery bread, chips, carrot sticks and a piece of fruit, with six cents in the lunch box for milk. Reasonably balanced. I still got the "no-no notes." The principal finally made my teacher cut it out after parents complained.