Jamie's School dinners

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, 7 veg in pasta sauce:

onion
tomato
celery
carrot
sweetcorn
mushroom
pepper

Used to chop v small so children wouldn't see. Now they realise that they actually like them!

Penny. x

polly5

patchwork_cat wrote:

Yes what scares me is that some people are very anti. Did you see on the news about the mum's taking orders for fish and chips at morning break and coming back to school at linch with it - it beggars believe.

I just couldnt believe it, no wonder there are so many obese kids, its the parents that need educating. Surely the school should be able to stop it, I would be furious if they were my kids

rainbowrisin

patchwork_cat wrote:

Yes what scares me is that some people are very anti. Did you see on the news about the mum's taking orders for fish and chips at morning break and coming back to school at linch with it - it beggars believe.

I didn't watch the programme, but what you're saying is awful - why don't the mums like their children to eat nice food? What's their problem with it?
Surely they could buy chips for tea if they felt that strongly that chips are the way forward.
I don't have anything against chips once in a while, but don't see the rationale in going loopy because your child is being offered a balanced meal for dinner

Smashing

patchwork_cat wrote:

Yes what scares me is that some people are very anti. Did you see on the news about the mum's taking orders for fish and chips at morning break and coming back to school at linch with it - it beggars believe.

Feeding them through the school gates no less. :rolleyes:

nearlyrich

I wonder if the parents feel that the school is taking a pop at their parenting style?

People are scared of change, there was a program on last week I think it was Trevor McDonald about 2 families who swapped menus for a month, the family who went from fresh food to ready meals put on loads of weight and blood pressures increased but the scariest bit was the family who lived on ready meals the mum didn't have a clue how to cook, she was chopping brocolli into minute pieces.

I watched the school dinners program today too, the chubby kids who wanted pizza and turkey twizzlers don't know how lucky they are having Jamie Oliver cooking lunch.

Rachie_B

Smashing wrote:

Feeding them through the school gates no less. :rolleyes:

no way ! OMG :eek: :mad:

jamie oliver is fab :beer:

Smashing

Rachie_B wrote:

no way ! OMG :eek: :mad:

jamie oliver is fab :beer:

Sad Sad Sad.

rainbowrisin

nearlyrich wrote:

I wonder if the parents feel that the school is taking a pop at their parenting style?

People are scared of change, there was a program on last week I think it was Trevor McDonald about 2 families who swapped menus for a month, the family who went from fresh food to ready meals put on loads of weight and blood pressures increased but the scariest bit was the family who lived on ready meals the mum didn't have a clue how to cook, she was chopping brocolli into minute pieces.

I watched the school dinners program today too, the chubby kids who wanted pizza and turkey twizzlers don't know how lucky they are having Jamie Oliver cooking lunch.

Well maybe the school should take a pop at their parenting style if they're not only feeding their children rubbish, but getting all steamed up if the school offers a balanced meal.
Even the most dim witted parent cannot fail to realise that eating rubbish all the time is not good for their children, and given the number of basic cookery classes, shopping on a budget classes, healthy recipe tips and so on floating around, there is absolutely no excuse for it. I am very anti nanny state, but that's on the basis that i believe people need to take responsiblity for their actions - in America, there have been a few cases where the State has sued parents who have allowed their children to become humongous fatties on the basis that it's child cruelty. Normally I am against the sue-happy culture, but in all honesty I think there's a case for it when children are being fed rubbish which damages them.
I don't think advertising, peer pressure, supermarkets or anything else is to blame for children eating c££p - it's parents that feed their children and they should take responsiblity for making sure they do it properly.
I shall stand down from my soap box now and shut up. Sorry if I've gone off thread and ranted - I get sooooooo croossss about it though.

pinkfluffybabe

rainbowrisin wrote:

Well maybe the school should take a pop at their parenting style if they're not only feeding their children rubbish, but getting all steamed up if the school offers a balanced meal.
Even the most dim witted parent cannot fail to realise that eating rubbish all the time is not good for their children, and given the number of basic cookery classes, shopping on a budget classes, healthy recipe tips and so on floating around, there is absolutely no excuse for it. I am very anti nanny state, but that's on the basis that i believe people need to take responsiblity for their actions - in America, there have been a few cases where the State has sued parents who have allowed their children to become humongous fatties on the basis that it's child cruelty. Normally I am against the sue-happy culture, but in all honesty I think there's a case for it when children are being fed rubbish which damages them.
I don't think advertising, peer pressure, supermarkets or anything else is to blame for children eating c££p - it's parents that feed their children and they should take responsiblity for making sure they do it properly.
I shall stand down from my soap box now and shut up. Sorry if I've gone off thread and ranted - I get sooooooo croossss about it though.

I agree, what some parents are doing is almost another form of child abuse

SAHARA

Apparently, they were protesting at the prices being charged as much as anything, the example being given was that a baked potato with a filling was £2.50, whereas at the local shop, it was £1.30. The school countered this on Friday by offering 'Meal Deals' for similar prices to those at the shops, although the footage i saw was of hundreds of portions of chips
Wonder if the parents not involved in the feeding time actually knew anything about this? I'd have been hopping mad to find I'd been sending my children to school with money to buy a healthy meal, and some irresponsible slobs had been encouraging them to eat junk on a daily basis :mad: