Is Soreen Malt Loaf healthy?

Becles

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Heh - she'd have had a bloody field day with my lunch box then. At one point my Mother owned a restaurant so my packed lunch contained leftover...had I been asked what I had the answer may well have been "Haunch of venison with a red wine jus and gratin au dauphinoise Miss":D

Reminds me of when we went to a party in a soft play area earlier in the year. The soft play lady asked her if she wanted chicken nuggets, fish fingers or sausages, and she asked "do you have any chicken chassuer?" :rotfl:

meritaten

Becles - dont get me started on 'kids' menus! why are they ALWAYS fish fingers, chicken nuggets and sausages! even in posh pubs! my kids ate what we ate! and yes, my kids loved chicken chaser (as they called it), and had quite sophisticated palates I suppose. They CANT have been the only ones!

Buttonmoons

I dont find those bento boxes even hold the heat properly! DD's spag bol was freezing by lunchtime!

adelight

meritaten wrote: »

Becles - dont get me started on 'kids' menus! why are they ALWAYS fish fingers, chicken nuggets and sausages! even in posh pubs! my kids ate what we ate! and yes, my kids loved chicken chaser (as they called it), and had quite sophisticated palates I suppose. They CANT have been the only ones!

Lots of people thought my family were snooty because me and my sister liked vegetables and home cooked food when we were little, erm no my parents just chose to spend the money they had on nourishing us not filling us with chemicals

The school I'm involved with (though don't have kids) doesn't really give a hoot about what the kids eat... or do... or learn. but that's another story. Do any schools have treat days one day a week where children are allowed to bring a cake in their lunch? Moderation is key, not giving them complexes at 5 :eek: My housemate is studying to be a family nutritionist and is horrified at the things in this thread.

dizziblonde

meritaten wrote: »

Becles - dont get me started on 'kids' menus! why are they ALWAYS fish fingers, chicken nuggets and sausages! even in posh pubs! my kids ate what we ate! and yes, my kids loved chicken chaser (as they called it), and had quite sophisticated palates I suppose. They CANT have been the only ones!

Had a big row with hubby the other night as he thought my pregnancy craving fish finger sandwich was disgusting!

Talking of sophisticated pallettes... MIL tells the tale of the time she was ill and told the kids to sort themselves out something to eat - hubby at the time must have been about 6-7 years old, she expected him to grab a bowl of cereal or something... he proceeded to make himself steak and chips! (He hasn't changed)

Becles

meritaten wrote: »

Becles - dont get me started on 'kids' menus! why are they ALWAYS fish fingers, chicken nuggets and sausages! even in posh pubs! my kids ate what we ate! and yes, my kids loved chicken chaser (as they called it), and had quite sophisticated palates I suppose. They CANT have been the only ones!

Same here!

My eldest two are close in age, so when they were little, I've bought them an adult meal and asked for two side plates and split it between them.

Lotus-eater

morocha wrote: »

that is perfect for the winter !!... DD loves soups, so i will get one of these too.
I dont know what schools do anymore, kids are told the certain food/ treats will make them fat, my dd goes as far as saying, mummy that has a lot of calories in it,it will give you a big fat tummy Or checking her tummy after eating a bar of chocolate ? it is just not right.

That's horrific.

My DD's school does have a ban on sweets in lunchboxes, but that's about it I think.

My sisters and Mum are always on about what latest diet they are on, which does rub off on my DD, I've asked them not to talk about it while she is around, but it's like talking to a post, I think because they are just so used to talking about it all the time. I remember my Mum when I was growing up never stopped talking about her losing weight.

Luckily we don't see them very often, so my DD is as much a normal little girl as she can be in todays society.

easy

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Heh - she'd have had a bloody field day with my lunch box then. At one point my Mother owned a restaurant so my packed lunch contained leftover...had I been asked what I had the answer may well have been "Haunch of venison with a red wine jus and gratin au dauphinoise Miss":D

Becles wrote: »

Reminds me of when we went to a party in a soft play area earlier in the year. The soft play lady asked her if she wanted chicken nuggets, fish fingers or sausages, and she asked "do you have any chicken chassuer?" :rotfl:

Oh these make me smile! my DS also has a very sophisticated palattte, has done from a very early age. At not quite 4 he started going to a childminder, the first time she had him for a full day she asked him "would you like scrambled eggs for lunch? " to which he replied "no thank you, I'll just have the smoked salmon " (we occasionally have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on a sunday brunch) !

At 8 we took him to a rather nice little restaurant in london. He gave his order to the waitress "I'll have the baby squid with lemon mayonnaise to start, and the wild mushroom risotto with white truffle oil please". Her face was a picture, of course he ate every scrap.

He is now 12. His chosen career is to be a restaurant critic.

claire16c

meritaten wrote: »

Can't we DO something about this? Forums such as MSE do have SOME power! It makes me really sad that the campaign for healthy eating in schools has turned into this travesty! and it IS a travesty!
any ideas people? do you think that Jamie Oliver would do a 'Healthy Eating School Meals' revisited? with emphasis on the lunchbox? He did a wonderful thing pointing out the awful state of school meals - it's not his fault that the lunchbox police are like Nazis! after all not ALL of his recipes would be allowed in lunchboxes!
Get up a petition? bombard your Local Education Dept with letters? thoughts please?
OP - sorry to hijack your thread - but, shouldnt this be sorted out?

I agree. These stupid rules were not what Jamie Oliver intended. He just wanted to stop kids eating junk all day every day and eat some normal home cooked style meals, know what a vegetable is and learn how to use a knife and fork!

I remember watching one of the episodes actually where he was coming up with the menus, and he already had the tiny budget to work with, but also a great long list of nutritional values the meals had to include. So some of the meals he wanted to swap for the turkey twizzlers, he had to amend or change quite a lot to pander to the rules. But somehow the turkey twizzlers and kids eating out the chocolate bar machines had been allowed!!

Memory_Girl

kathie1101 wrote: »

My DS isn't into pittas or wraps, he just likes white bread sandwiches or pasta or rice dishes, but his face lit up tonight when I had one of these delivered, as he can now have chilli, spag bol or his fave of sweet & sour for dinner at school

My DS has one of these (he's 11 BTW) as he loves a hot lunch and doesn't really fancy the school dinners.

I cook bean chilli, chickpea curry, tomato sauce, bolognese and freeze in a silicon muffin tin. Lunch is a portion of "something" with rice or pasta, then a veggie / salad dish in the bottom. Keeps hot AND cold till lunch.

He's a growing lad (hollow legs) so also has a piece of fruit and a piece of home baking every day too as desert / morning snack.

Had a phone call from one of the TA's last week wanting to "talk about DS1's lunch" - so I was all ready to go in all guns blazing when he very politely asked for the chickpea curry recipe as the smell goes around his heart whenever DS1 has it for lunch:rotfl:

MG