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O/T: if you have children with free school meals do you also cook a hot dinner?

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  • My LO isn't at school yet but if he did have a cooked lunch at school i would still do him a hot meal for dinner (tea) only because they school meals arn't exactly great portions. well they wernt when i was at school anyway. (i left high school in 2008)
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  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    School meal portions are tiny! I went with DD last week as an intro thing, and she got "roast chicken, mealie and veg" what it actually was, was a piece of chicken not much bigger than a chunk in a curry, the thinnest gravy in the world, a TEASPOON of mealie, and a wee sup of mixed veg which I also ate and was extremely undercooked!

    They aint stingy on the puddings though :/
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