School Dinners or Packed Lunch...

moggitymog

my dd has packed lunch until it gets cooler, then it's usually school dinner but i've just bought a food flask to try out so hoping she can take hot food in that

moomoomama27

Mine have packed lunches, mainly because the menu isn't great, and they would probably only eat about 50% of the meal!

If they were having a cooked meal lunchtime, they'd have a light meal at dinner. Something on toast, or sandwhich/salad etc. No way would I cook another hot meal, other than soup/beans. If they are hungry between or after meals they get fruit! Cereal for supper.

*Louise*

Sammy85 wrote: »

If its anything like it was when i was at school (9 years ago). There was a choice of a set meal of dinner and a pud and then various other options, burgers, chips, pizza etc. Drinks we had a choice of bottled water, milk or juices. Then there were crisps and a couple of choices of choccy bars/buscuits. I think i used to get £3 a day, of which £1 was bus fares. I think chips, cheese and gravy used to cost around £1, and i would get a carton of milk at morning break and one with lunch, leaving me around 50p for the sweet shop on the way home. Mum gave me £3 based on the set meal and a drink being £2.

I knew kids that had packed lunches so that the parents knew what they were eating but still found the money to have a plate of chips at lunchtime with the rest us.

It's probably along those lines but whenever I ask he never seems to look at what else is on the menu lol. Although apparently there are no chips/pizza or juice at all, just water or milk (?). Think I will pop in and ask for a copy of the menus

Primary school menus are fantastic, really healthy and we get the menus in advance :T

Sammy85_2

*Louise* wrote: »

It's probably along those lines but whenever I ask he never seems to look at what else is on the menu lol. Although apparently there are no chips/pizza or juice at all, just water or milk (?). Think I will pop in and ask for a copy of the menus

Its probably alot of healthier choices now, we used to get turkey twizzlers as a choice. Loved it when they were on the menu. Always got one with my chips, cheese and gravy.

tiamai_d

Mine have school dinners (and one nursery dinner) plus snacks at after school club (or nursery) and are still starving when we get home. They are only at afterschool care 3 days a week so I've started doing lighter dinners that night for us all and then hubby and I will have [STRIKE]crisps and chocolate[/STRIKE] cheese on toast later if hungry.

Usually they end up getting a snack when they get in ther door as well as dinner!

Quick and easy meals - asda £6 meal deal (main, side and dessert), Pizza and wedges, maccaronni cheese on toast, something from the freezer (bulk cooked spaggy bol, shephards pie, etc), toad in the hole (so I made it once, it counts). Bish, bash, bosh meals.

And sometimes they get Brinner (breakfast for dinner lol) depending on how tired I am.

Our school dinners work out cheaper than packed lunches and I admit, a heck of a lot easier!

Kyss

My ideal solution would be school dinners (so I'd know they were getting a good meal during the day, hopefully), then a reasonably substantial snack after school (I think 12pm to 7pm is too long to fast), then an evening meal which would depend on what I was up to cooking (proper hot meal some nights, but maybe soup/sandwich, toasted cheese and beans if I was tired, knowing they'd had a proper meal at school.

CupOfChai

I really can't understand all the people who say if their child had a cooked school dinner during the day, they only need/get a sandwich or something at teatime. I'd have starved to death as a child if my mum did that!

I've never seen a turkey twizzler in the wild. After they were on Jamie Oliver's programme, I went looking for some especially to see what all the fuss was about, but to no avail. To this day I've never seen them for sale or being eaten anywhere except on that programme. They must have made them up for the telly!

ETA Kyss, your "ideal solution" is pretty much what I was given! Though we always had a proper dinner, I doubt my dad would have been too impressed if he came home from being at work all day and was presented with a toastie!

MiniMoo

My kids had school dinners for a short time until every time i asked them what they had for lunch and they replied baguette ................ because they didnt like the things on the menu and the dinnerladies tried to force them to eat it all. (rule in our house is you must try everything on your plate before you can say you dont like it even if you only tried it last week so i'm not a softy)

Now they have p/l because i know whats going in their tums but my 11 yr old will still come home 'starvingggg' but thats because he does stay still for more than 30 seconds lol.

moo x