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This is not quite the same sort of thing, but is about school regulations and what some do and don’t allow. My 4-year-old granddaughter goes to Pre-school 2½ days a week and comes here to us for 2 days. I always like to have a few projects for us to do and the other day one of these was making a batch of gingerbread men.

She was very proud of the fact that she had helped make them and took 2 to Pre-school in her lunchbox. Both were sent back home with a note to the effect that biscuits were not allowed. These were homemade biscuits for crying out loud – admittedly with ‘sweet’ ingredients, but not shop-bought rubbish.

A couple of days later she had 2 apples in her lunchbox – one was sent home. When queried about this the little one said ‘we are only allowed to have 1 piece of fruit’. Not sure about this though as maybe she only wanted one.

The lunchboxes of both my young grandchildren are always full of healthy, nutritious food – so surely a little flexibility wouldn’t go amiss when a couple of homemade biscuits are included.

Just as well they didn’t see how many of the gingerbread men she ate here.

The ironic thing is that they allow white bread that has absolutely no nutritional value, and crackers that have lots of salt in them!

By the way, the older one at primary school (same campus) ate her biscuits at school, no problem.