Learner Dad: School lunches are a tricky business

'We could give him ham five days a week, or at least we could have 20 years ago before ham was put under the health microscope'

'One school’s ‘nice treat on a Friday’ is another’s ‘you’re poisoning your kids'." Picture: iStock 

Our two started their new school in East Cork this morning. It’s too early to report on how they got on, I’ll keep that for next week.  But some things don't change - we're  back making lunches. It’s a tricky business because one school’s ‘nice treat on a Friday’ is another’s ‘you’re poisoning your kids, and now all the other kids will be asking their parents for a chocolate chip brioche.’  

I have no idea if that’s the case in the new school, but we went pretty conservative on day one and our kids went to school with the kind of lunch that you’d expect to get from a caveman - or cavewoman.