School Meals v Packed Lunch

lynzpower

I think this is bloody ridiculous. Spoliing your child by feeding them properly? What next!!!!!

What, should you give them twizzlers & winders and all the rest of the carp "targeted" at kids instead :mad:

Maybe they are the same people who think Jamie olivers kids are spolit. Well at least they dont have impacted bowels and short attention spans and the rest of it. I would have thought any kid was spoiled by being given processed rubbish to keep them quiet over and above the "in-moderation" amount.

*shakes head*

jellyhead

thanks all :-)

actually my child does have a short attention span but i'm sure it would be worse if his diet was worse. and we do buy choccy sometimes, and other processed treats such as frubes, humzingers etc.

supermarket fruit can be expensive but my town centre is only ten minutes walk from school and has 2 greengrocers and an indoor market. the greengrocer sells large slices of watermelon for 50p, big enough for all 4 of us as a snack, and the baby loves it.

from a moneysaving point of view i don't think the fruit costs more than the processed prepacked 'ideal for lunchboxes' things.

lynzpower

the key here is that processed stuff is a "treat" and not a staple. Fruit & veg are filling, so moneysaving all the more.

Keep it up!!

patchwork_cat

If we were in December I would be saying oh that's expensive, but at this time of year, no. I do wonder if the healthy eating message is getting through to some people - obviously not!

Spendless

In what way did they mean you were making a rod for your own back by giving fresh fruit or by having to shop more than once a week?

Personally I think it's nice to see a packed lunch box with fresh fruit in them, there were very few of them when I was a dinner lady.

jellyhead

rod for my back was both for providing favourite foods i suppose, and for shopping more than once a week, which i would have to do anyway for bread unless i froze some.

EasilyAggravated

and how will you feel knowing you are bringing up 2 HEALTHY children?
then ask yourself how you would feel bringing up kids who eat nothing but junk food. obese children with medical conditions or healthy kids leading a healthy life. i know which id prefer

me and the woman indoors have an 11 month old and we buy fresh fruit and veg for him to eat. he might get the odd little bit of junk now and again but its nowhere near what i see other parents throwing down their kids necks.

GOOD ON YOU. IGNORE THE MACDONALDS FANS

knithappens

what is good enought for me is good enough for my kids, we eat very littel processed food in my house. So i have to make a mid week trip especially fro fruit, and i send my daughter to school with 2 pieces of fresh fruit one for break and one with her lunch. Dont listen to what they have to say.

Thriftylady

I'm so shocked that people would even consider that feeding your child healthy and nutritious food is somehow 'spoiling' him......actually, when I think about it, I probably shouldn't be shocked at all. The crap people feed their children (and themselves) makes me so furious - when I see folk in the supermarket loading up on rubbish (and I mean trolleys full of rubbish, not just a few treats thrown in along with otherwise sensible food) I want to tell them they shouldn't have had children in the first place if they can't be bothered to feed them.

Excuse me, I'm just climbing down off my high horse now......

wigginsmum

fresh fruit in lunchbox = clued-in mother