School stopping my child eating chocolate

Lifeisbutadream

hollydays wrote: »

Frozen veg isn't all bad you know.It can be just as,sometimes fresher than the fresh stuff.But on a positive note-they have a salad bar-but presumably no kit kats? I think I would want to know why they are serving only white bread though.A bit of lumpy mashed potato never harmed anyone.

I dont have a problem with frozen veg - its the soggy bit I have the problem with!

Of course lump mash doesnt harm anyone - but I dont want to pay £3.60 for a substandard meal!

One of the things I have to thank my mother for is that she always encouraged me to try all foods and to appreciate the value of it,it was sacrilege to be fussy over food at home,and as a result I will eat/try most foods without fear or trepidation. People/kids who say they don't like something before they have tried it make me cross!! Kids who persuade their parents they want a packed lunch with goodies in rather than plain food have to much power,in my opinion.
Much the same as kids who tell their parents they have to have £150 trainers or they will be bullied.Contentious,I know .((Ducks))

I encourage my children to eat what they are given. I do, however, give them a decent home cooked meal. I think expecting them to eat processed, salty rubbish every day at school is a bit much though.

Who says anything about saying they dont like something before they tried it? both my children went dinners for 2 years until I realised how low a standard they were and immediately stopped it.

If you read my posts properly, instead of jumping to conclusions, you will see that I do not give my children unhealthy junk food, but I do reserve the right to make the decisions on what my child eats myself.

Is it cold up there on your moral high ground???

My children do not have £150 trainers and I do not see what on earth that has to do with me saying that our school dinners are not of a standard that I am happy to pay for.

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iamana1ias

no.1swimmum wrote: »

I told him that I packed my sons lunch with what I knew he would eat etc etc - he started his speel about no chocolate - got him - the chocolate muffin did not have any chocolate in it only cocoa powder,

What's cocoa powder made from then? It's (often) pure cacao (chocolate) with a bit of sugar in it!!! :rolleyes:

no.1swimmum wrote: »

too much sugar no made with honey

which is a form of sugar :rolleyes:

no.1swimmum wrote: »

in fact it was made following a recipe by an olympic swimmers mother

Was your youngest an olympic swimmer? Athletes need massive amounts of sugar to perform. school children generally don't

no.1swimmum wrote: »

and was made with cornmeal instead of flour,

which has more sugar/carbohydrate than flour - good for olympic athletes, bad for children :rolleyes:

no.1swimmum wrote: »

I am his parent and if I deem that it is OK for him to eat then it is - after all I am a qualified chef and therefore think that I am more informed that you are to know the contents of food'

I don't think I'll eat at your place of work. You clearly don't know very much about ingredients or nutrition :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hollydays

I didn't say that was necessarily you lifeisbutadream that was acting in that way. I apologize if I offended you though.I know that was contentious,and there are two different opinions on this thread. As a parent, I did my best,sometimes you get it right,sometimes not.The point about the trainers,was how kids can manipulate their parents.

iamana1ias

cfubar wrote: »

She is allowed to eat chocolate in moderation and almost always in the form of such as a kitkat or rocky bar which is mainly biscuit not chocolate.

Oh that's okay then, cos biccies are healthy :rolleyes:

nickyhutch

If your daughter really can't get through 6 hours without a treat of some chocolate, you really have something to worry about.

hoyles10

It's only in recent years that the whole unhealthy foods thing has been a problem to anyone. I left school in 1995 and up until then our school canteen served pizza's, chips, sausages, burgers, hot dogs, baked potato's, salads, a bit of cheese with a couple of ryvita's, cakes and a selection of about a dozen chocolate bars and crisps and a big coca cola vending machine in the corner and not a word was said about it by anyone. The effects of eating unhealthy food and drinking fizzy pop full of sugar haven't really changed but it just seems that someone decided they didn't like it therefore their opinions must be pushed on everyone.

It might help matters as well if supermarket deals were on healthy food rather than reducing the price of junk foods. We eat fairly healthy foods most of the time and cook pretty much everything from scratch and it costs a fortune just for the 2 of us, so I can fully understand why people with children go into supermarkets and come out with bags full of things like pizza's for £1 and 24 bags of crisps for £2 and 18 cans of pepsi for £3.

Maybe the government will bring in a scheme where chocolate eating is banned indoors as it upsets people so you will have to go outside to do it

Lifeisbutadream

hollydays wrote: »

I didn't say that was necessarily you lifeisbutadream that was acting in that way. I apologize if I offended you though.I know that was contentious,and there are two different opinions on this thread. As a parent, I did my best,sometimes you get it right,sometimes not.The point about the trainers,was how kids can manipulate their parents.

Apology accepted. I do think you should probably re-read some of the post on here though as most people are not trying to feed their kids junk, or allowing their children to manipulate them.

Most parents simply want what is best for their children and although I think most will agree that a healthy lunchbox would not contain crisps and chocolate, I think it is a step too far for schools to seach lunchboxes and remove offending items!

Lifeisbutadream

iamana1ias wrote: »

What's cocoa powder made from then? It's (often) pure cacao (chocolate) with a bit of sugar in it!!! :rolleyes:



which is a form of sugar :rolleyes:



Was your youngest an olympic swimmer? Athletes need massive amounts of sugar to perform. school children generally don't



which has more sugar/carbohydrate than flour - good for olympic athletes, bad for children :rolleyes:



I don't think I'll eat at your place of work. You clearly don't know very much about ingredients or nutrition :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

!!!!!!!!!???
I would much rather my child had a homemade cake made from cocoa and honey than one made of additives and sweeteners!!!

That nast little rant was uncalled for in my opinion. What did that poster do to dserve that???

iamana1ias

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

!!!!!!!!!???
I would much rather my child had a homemade cake made from cocoa and honey than one made of additives and sweeteners!!!

That nast little rant was uncalled for in my opinion. What did that poster do to dserve that???

eh? it wasn't a rant :rotfl:

Are you telling me that cake in any form is healthy? Do you think that qualified chefs know anything about healthy eating or nutrition? Have you ever been in a professional kitchen?! Do you have any idea how much salt chefs use?!

I didn't say that sweeteners or additives are a good thing :rolleyes: how is it appropriate to give a child food designed for an athlete? Should said child have a protein shake in the morning?

It's highly unlikely that kids will burn off the amount of sugars, natural or not, being fed to them. Where do you think the increase in childhood type 2 diabetes is coming from? The kid didn't need the muffin, or the crisps. Why couldn't it have a banana instead?

hollydays

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

Apology accepted. I do think you should probably re-read some of the post on here though as most people are not trying to feed their kids junk, or allowing their children to manipulate them.

Most parents simply want what is best for their children and although I think most will agree that a healthy lunchbox would not contain crisps and chocolate, I think it is a step too far for schools to seach lunchboxes and remove offending items!

I know parents who are badly educated about food.Some of the arguments I have heard them say are:Its sweet,but it doesn't matter as long as they clean their teeth.
Its crap-so what?
You can't believe everything you read in the papers (this means "we eat !!!! ,we don't listen to what anyone else says-its a fad")
"They eat pasta -thats healthy" (absense of fruit or veg)

I noticed that the word "treats" figured very high in their life-and the "treats" were always food,rarely given as the parents time eg taking them on a trip etc.I thought that if you gave food as a treat,kids are likely to turn to food as a "prop" in good times or bad,which can lead to poor health.But these are parents who do have a very sweet tooth and eat a lot of unhealthy stuff,It almost a dead cert these kids will inherit the parents weight problems,I think it is great if the school somehow could educate these kids,even in a small way, that their parents way may not be the only way to live.The mother I know is desperate the kids don't inherit the parents weight problems,but she doesn't have the knowledge (she is intelligent though,a graduate) because of her own upbringing.She encourages a very unhealthy reliance on sweet things (worries me,for her kids sake)
Again,I am not saying this is anyone here.