We've tackled a similar problem in another thread about children's lunches. Finding something fresh, nutritious, healthy and tasty every day is hard enough. Finding something that fits that criteria that can be packed in a lunch box that's 99 times out of 100 left in an unrefridgerated environment and will still be fit to eat after 3 hours is even harder.

I know Limpit's lunch is left in a plastic crate, inside the classroom or in a heated office for the 3 hours between 9 and 12. We have to be careful that what we give her to eat isn't going to spoil, go slimy and brown or go 'off' in that time. On a hot, sunny summer day, a salad packed in a plastic box in an insulated lunch bag will be composting nicely by lunchtime. Sometimes the only way you can be sure they will actually eat something is to put in an item or two that will not rot, ferment or become 'yucky' - things like cake, biscuits and suchlike. Limpit's lunch is supervised but the only policing is over items such as peanuts, when it is known that a child or teacher has a severe allergy.

It's all very well for politicians to make these rules and regulations, it's quite another for ordinary people to try and live within them.

LTS