School Meals v Packed Lunch

jellyhead

when the fruit isn't in season i will be a cheapskate and give him satsumas :rotfl: he does have raisins and school bars sometimes, i'm not a saint

i was surprised when talking to other people this week though how little fruit and veg they buy - only one friend does a midweek fruit and veg shop, and she told me lidl is really cheap so i'll try there too as it can be on the way to town if i take a slight detour. the nice thing about the greengrocers is that it smells of fruit, the supermarket stuff has been chilled i suppose - there's nothing like the smell of strawberries to make you salivate though

my baby always has a tomato seed under his chin no matter how often he is washed, it's one of those cute little things we all laugh about.

Becles

Just ignore them. You've done a superb job making sure he eats fresh fruit and veg. Not many children do these days. He'll grow up with healthy habits for life and thank you for it in the long run.

thriftlady_2

Was up at my favourite farmshop this morning buying gorgeous smelling local strawberries for my kid's lunch boxes.

All my 3 are real fruit bats.I put this down to the fact that I've always given them fruit and always will.

We know we're right,feeding our kids real food is not spoiling them.I've never heard anything so mad in my life

alice's_mum

Oh my God!!!! if you're making a "rod for your own back" - then I've done the same, my two think that a treat is fruit, and if you've been VERY GOOD then a small sweety type thing. My local greengrocer, just reaches for the banana's when I walk in the shop, we must get thru 15 - 20 in a week, for all four of us, and then there's apples, grapes, oranges, strawberries, cherries, limes, lemons in fact pretty much any fruit they sell we will eat.

But then my two have lovely strong teeth, clear skin, they sleep well 12 hours a night on average, my DS is so healthy he is in line for 100% attendance in school this year:j - no little niggling illnesses, bugs etc - which I am sure is down to all the fruit he eats.

It would be interesting to see what these other mums put in their kids lunch boxes. I work in a primary school and the lunch boxes I see are bad.... crisps, cartons of juice, processed sandwiche fillings on white bread, sweets, cake, etc.

There is no price too high to pay for your kids and your health, if you can afford it keep giving them the fruit, it works out cheaper than the crap anyway.

L

inkie

I can't seem to keep up with the amount of fruit my two DDs eat - but i'd rather it be that way than trying to coerce them into getting their 5-a-day.

It never ceases to amaze me the 'can't be bothered' attitude of some of the mothers at my DDs school. My eldest whose 9 was telling me that there is a a boy in her class who regularly takes a packet of biscuits for his lunch - his mum certainly hasn't had a rod for her own back.
It worries me what other kids get fed on - mine regularly take things like chapattis/croissants/ tortilla etc and the other kids always say 'whats that?!'

I recetly had to right in a letter of complaint to school as my daughter was told by the dinnerladies that she shouldn't be taking sushi to school for her lunch "cos it stinks" (their words!). What hope have we?

Stick with the healthy food which your child enjoys - you only have to see 'honey we're killing the kids to see the long term implications for kids being fed on !!!!!!.

jellyhead

even worse than not knowing what a tortilla is - one of his friends asked what's that when she saw him eating broccoli :eek: i like the fruit bats expression, will remember that

liney

I'd tell them that chocolate and crisps are what they should be cutting back on, not fresh fruit. Then i'd stop speaking to the these people who are probably part of the 'It's-the-goverment-making- up -this -5 a-day thing-and-it-makes-my-kids-ill' Clan.

On another note did anyone hear about a council giving out free Vit D drops to under 2's because there were cases of ricketts in the area? Shocking.

fesdufun

Good on you.

Although I try not too it is all too easy to get sucked into the trap of buying convience foods for their lunch boxes. The sooner they ban advertising of this junk the better.

My three year old has a thing for cherry tomatoes. The other day he told me he would get his own dessert. He came back from the kitchen with the box cherry tomatoes and sat down and ate the whole lot!

9 times out of 10 if you often him a chocolate or a sweet he will turn it down. It's not that we have banned him from eating them, he just doesn't like them. It is a nightmare at Easter as I try to explain that he doesn't like Easter eggs. Some people can't get their head around this fact.

It just a pity I am not the same. At least I get to eat all of sweets from his parties bags!

joannasmum

If you think that you've got problems with mums at the school gates imagine what its like when its your in-laws. I had to sprint across the garden at my SIL's the other day because my MIL had just given my 18 month old a Fruit Shoot (yuck, yuck). They just dont get it that I dont want her to have rubbish and she enjoys her fruit and veg.

bulchy

Reading through this thread reminds me of when DS was about 3, I walked into the greengrocers with him in his buggy, asked him what he wanted and he asked for a cabbage :rotfl: still his favourite veg even now at the age of 12. Everyone was well impressed with him in the shop that day
Its great to read all the replies, and hearing how much fruit and veg everyones kids eat, as my kids both comment on how unhealthy some of there friends are, going to chippy at lunch time etc. Mine both take packed lunch to school, they each eat fruit and veg at home and school, and its bottles of water instead of pop as well, DS even says he feels sick at the sight of some of the lunches his friends have.
These mothers need to go back to school, and learn how to feed there kids properly :rolleyes:
Sue