[tazcan]

DD just started school this year and I have been horrified by the amount of sugary snacks and drinks at her school canteen:
chocolate milk, fruit poppers, slushies, ice-blocks etc etc

I don't hardly ever let her get a lunch order because of this, but her friends buy her ice blocks and slushies quite often. She has started hunting for coins and hiding them to take to school and I know other kindy kids are doing the same thing.

I don't think school canteens should be selling these kinds of things and I don't think kindy kids should be allowed to buy things for each other from the canteen. I would never buy DD (5.5 years) a slushy when out and about so why should she be getting them at school?

I am writing a letter of complaint to the principal about it as well as maybe a copy to the head of the P&C.

Does anyone else have a problem like this with the school canteen, and do you think the principal will take notice of my complaint? Who else could I write to or approach about the matter?

[Jemstar]

Again, your avenue to deal with menu items is to take it to the P&C. Complaining about it on EB isn't going to change anything. And I really do not think that the school canteen is at fault for your daughter not being able to say no/resist her friends. Children have to learn to make the right choices. Frankly, I'd be more annoyed with my daughter for taking things from her friends all the time rather than what was being taken. And if it's not the canteen, what about when her friend has something forbidden in her lunch box and shares it? It's the same concept really, I'm sorry OP, but I do think this is a lesson your daughter needs to learn.

And please, what sort of slushies are they?