Jamie's School dinners

beachbeth

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.

:eek: That is awful!!! :eek:

pounds_and_pensive

It'll come back and bite these parents on the bum when they find that their kids are difficult to buy clothes for because they've put on a ton of weight and are built like army tanks, and are limiting their parent's freedom to go out and earn the wonga necessary to dress their kids in made-to-measure tents because they're off school all the time with one bug after another. It's the kids I feel desperately sorry for though.

Strepsy

To be honest I've found problems with the new system in our school but mine only had a school dinner every now and then. I do feel for those who have to eat it regularly. I've found that if you go for the main meal choice, fine, you get a nice healthy balanced meal but if they don't like the main choice that day they can choose for instance a jacket spud, which they get with no butter, just some cold grated cheese, they're not allowed salad or a vegetable with it. Same for sandwiches - they can get a ham or cheese sandwich on white bread, no salad and it does grate when you spend £1.65 on their meal. Basically to make the main choice it probably costs a lot more and they then have to make the other choices much cheaper. My 6 yr old was once given one small sausage and a spoonful of beans for her lunch and all the puddings had gone when she'd finished so that was it, with a drink of cordial for £1.65. They did actually apologise to her the next day and give her a cookie but I just got fed up of them. My younger two haven't had a school dinner this term and I doubt we'll bother again.

patchwork_cat

Also the thing that gets me is that people see this and assume that all fat people are stupid and it is the parents fault.

We are overweight, but it is because we like food. We always give the children good food, admittedly with a packet of crisps for lunch, but no chocolate or other rubbish and people assume that we don't eat well. We get closer to our 5 a day than most and my son has put weight on since starting high school because I can't control him 24/7. He loves white bread - may have a wheat intolerance that might be why he craves it ( I must look into that)and will grap I couple of slices if I don't watch him.

We are watching our weight and trying to do something about it, but it is very hard when the rest of the kids at his school have 2 chocolate bars for lunch and like any normal child that is what he would rather have too.

polly5

Smashing wrote:

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

You can see on the picture, the mums are stood in a graveyard taking orders through the fence

Sorry sounds like I am correcting you, no offence meant, I just meant did anyone notice

Strepsy

patchwork_cat wrote:

Also the thing that gets me is that people see this and assume that all fat people are stupid and it is the parents fault.

We are overweight, but it is because we like food. We always give the children good food, admittedly with a packet of crisps for lunch, but no chocolate or other rubbish and people assume that we don't eat well. We get closer to our 5 a day than most and my son has put weight on since starting high school because I can't control him 24/7. He loves white bread - may have a wheat intolerance that might be why he craves it ( I must look into that)and will grap I couple of slices if I don't watch him.

We are watching our weight and trying to do something about it, but it is very hard when the rest of the kids at his school have 2 chocolate bars for lunch and like any normal child that is what he would rather have too.

That's a shame you feel so pressured like that. I can honestly say that I don't feel pressured to give mine anything other than what they like, which is pretty healthy stuff. We have had changes and I did get a lot stricter after the Jamie Oliver series started tbh - there was some whinging but as long as you're firm and they know you're not going to back down they do come round honestly, take it a little at a time.

As for white bread my youngest's the same though she does like the best of both stuff and I've found that she doesn't mind wholemeal pittas. She just thinks they're golden because I usually toast them. lol

rls1973

polly5 wrote:

You can see on the picture, the mums are stood in a graveyard taking orders through the fence

Sorry sounds like I am correcting you, no offence meant, I just meant did anyone notice

yeah, standing on peoples graves to do this! ironic?

BertieMeldrew

Leeks, either in addition to or as an alternative to Onion
Corgettes
Broccolli (small florets)
Cauliflower (ditto)
Aubergine

tawnyowls

rls1973 wrote:

yeah, standing on peoples graves to do this! ironic?

Which is unpleasant, but what I found worse was that apparently it's not just their kids. Bad enough if you're stuffing your own kids into an early grave, but they were taking orders from other kids, and all the stuff had chips, chips and more chips. One of those women was on the morning news the other day, and she claimed that her kids always have a cooked tea with at least 2 veg. So why feed them chips at lunch? Have to say it didn't entirely ring true.

Penny-Pincher!!

DD has free school dinners and gave her a pack up at primary school as the food was appauling!

She has a token worth £2.15 each day now she is as secondary. For £2.15 you can get a hot cooked meal (choice of 3), pudding and a drink. There is also a snack section where they sell Baked spuds with 2 toppings £1.75 (cheese and beans for DD), fresh sarnies with posh salads, tortilla wraps, salads, HM pizza slices, a choice of pasta or noodles. DD has been happy so far and normally has a jacket spud with cheese and beans, iced finger (HM) and a drink of water or milk. They only have chips on a friday and roast dinner day is Thursday....which is her fav!

She used the token at breaktime today as she was playing netball at lunch and bought a bacon sandwich (ate cold at lunch), 2 pieces of fruit, HM cookie and bottle of water.

She does moan about the queues though.

PP
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