School is saying my daughter's lunch does not meet "nutritional guidelines"

My 5 year old daughter recently started going to a new school. I've always packed her lunch and it's never been a problem. However at her new school there are "nutrition guidelines" for brought from home lunches. They must include one serving of meat, one serving of dairy, on serving of grains etc.My daughter is vegan and has been since birth, so obviously I'm not going to send her to school with meat and dairy. She eats very healthy and I pay extra attention to making sure she gets the proper nutrients. For the past couple weeks she is continually coming home with "your lunch needs improvement !" notes. Which are notes given to students who's lunches don't meet the guidelines with the missing food group highlighted. So my daughter keeps bringing home notes with the "dairy" and "meat" sections highlighted. I wrote on one of them that we are vegan and I will not be packing meat or dairy in her lunch. The teacher wrote back:"The nutritional guidelines are mandatory and decided by the district. We ask that you please respect them. Thank you!"So at this point I'm rather annoyed and I emailed the principal explaining the situation, today I finally got a response that said:"Thank you for contacting me. The nutritional guidelines for school lunches are set in place by the district and must be followed. What you feed your student at home is your business. However, when at school certain nutritional needs must be met. We understand certain students may have very specific dietary needs that make this difficult. In your case we ask that you please send your child with a vegan dairy substitute as well a vegan meat substitute each day. It is important that students eat a healthy balanced lunch each day to help them focus and learn. If these rules are not followed it may result in disciplinary action. Thank you for your time. "Now if you aren't totally familiar with veganism you might think this is fine. Just send her with some vegan dairy and vegan meat right? The thing is vegan cheeses, yogurts, meats and other things are not something you want to be eating everyday. They are more of an occasional food. I am just not willing to have my child eat vegan meat everyday, it would not be healthy. I don't know what to do at this point, do I email the principal back? What do I say? I'm honestly annoyed at this, my daughter eats a healthy lunch each day, much more healthy then a student eating say, a bologna sandwich and a yogurt drink...and yet those things fit with the nutritional guidelines. What do I do? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2lY4t6V