Your child’s snack box: what’s in and what’s out

I try to give my son healthy snacks for school but he always wants what his friends have, which is often junk food such as sweets and crisps. Sometimes I give him home-made cookies, but he prefers the commercial varieties. It is very frustrating. Shouldn’t his school ban junk food? I have been horrified at the snacks some children bring to school. I always wonder who packs their snack boxes and whether the parents actually know what is in there. Peer pressure is strong at this...