Irate parents have slammed a school for confiscating "unhealthy snacks" packed lunches... while serving ice cream and chocolate brownies in its own canteen.
Teachers are inspecting the lunch boxes as part of a bid to discorage youngsters from eating fatty and sugary food like salty or fatty snacks and chocolate bars.
On the banned list are: crisps, biscuits, processed meat products. Even fruit juices and flavoured waters have all been removed.
But parents have been angered because the crack-down is happening at Childwall Valley Primary Chol in Liverpool where sugary desserts are served by dinner ladies.
They also claim the "lunchtime police" have snatched healthy items such as chicken along with the banned snacks.
Helen Phillips, 34, said teachers at the school swiped her 11-year-old son Dylan's pure orange juice drink saying it was too high in sugar.
She said: "I'm all for healthy eating but the way it has been enforced is disgusting."
The school has written to parents saying the campaign is "part of our responsibility to teach children how to eat healthily".
Headmaster Kevin Basnett said the move followed extensive consultation in which 86 per cent of parents supported the policy.
Mr Basnett said pupils' bags were not being searched and any snacks confiscated were handed back at the end of the day.
He said children found with an outlawed snack were offered a healthy alternative.
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