Is Soreen Malt Loaf healthy?

Memory_Girl

Buttonmoons wrote: »

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

Have you tried warming them up by pouring boiling water into them and screwing on the lid whilst you heat up the lunch? Just like you do a normal vacuum flask.

Only asking cos a friend in RL had the same issue and was about to bin hers when I asked how she was heating hers up.

Cue laughing and head -slapping, because as she pointed out, if she had been heating up soup she would have been heating up the flask in the normal way.

I've tested mine - and I can put hot food into a hot flask and it is still ho enough to eat at 3pm.

MG

kathie1101

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Have you tried warming them up by pouring boiling water into them and screwing on the lid whilst you heat up the lunch? Just like you do a normal vacuum flask.

Only asking cos a friend in RL had the same issue and was about to bin hers when I asked how she was heating hers up.

Cue laughing and head -slapping, because as she pointed out, if she had been heating up soup she would have been heating up the flask in the normal way.

I've tested mine - and I can put hot food into a hot flask and it is still ho enough to eat at 3pm.

MG

I actually took ages to decide whether to buy one or not, because I had read such mixed reviews on them. In the end I decided to bite the bullet and try it as it looks perfect for DS as he is always asking to take sweet & sour to school and I thought the normal food flasks would be too big for him to eat something like that from - plus with them it means that the rice would have to be mixed in with the sauce.

The instructions say to heat up the food in the bento box in the microwave, but is it better then to heat it up in something else and pour boiling water in the bento box?
I plan on doing a trial run at home with rice in it before sending DS to school with it, as always a bit wary of rice so if it doesn't keep it hot then I won't use it for that.

gingin_2

mumto2loves wrote: »

"because believe it or not in the past they had a parent send in SOUP in a thermos flask ha ha ha!!"

err and????

DD takes soup every day. School haven't said anything but she came home in her P.E kit the other day because she had spilt tomato soup all over herself, the table and the floor at lunch. I thought the number might be up for the thermos flask but the poor dinner lady must have cleaned it up and let it be.

I went on a trip with dd's class and one child came with a tiny bread roll with some sort of paste, 2 fruit puree pouches and 2 fruit drinks (all organic stuff). The mother is a nutritionist so she must know her stuff but it looked very different from every other child's lunch box.

Welshwoofs

easy wrote: »

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.

:rotfl: That's wonderful!


Yup, my parents are both gastronomes of very different sorts. My Mother is very much into home-grown and foraged and cooks everything from scratch whereas my Father (they're divorced) was always into eating out. So from a young age I had my Mother teaching me out to gut a rabbit and cook a stew with it and my Father taking me to France on holidays simply to experience the food.

When I go to France and Spain the kids eat from the same menu as the adults; you simply don't see kids' menus with different food. I find the concept of kids' menus really depressing....especially given they tend to be full of nuggets, chips, beans etc etc.

IMO the best time to educate a palatte is when young - I seem to meet more and more fussy eaters and I can't help but wonder if they were people who ate different food to their parents when kids and who were allowed to pick and choose what they ate.

vax2002

Jamie Oliver was at his healthy eating hut in Leeds market when someone shouted out.. OY geezer, you wanna cut down on your pork life mate.
Hysterics... not much...

stiltwalker

My DD is 21/2 and just eats what we do - she has a very sophisticated palate and loves the lobster and antipasta starter at the local Italian. She also loves really hot curry and will sit here with her eyes watering going yummy yummy, more mummy! DS is about 6 weeks onto the food adventure and seems to be going the same way! Think as soon as DD knows what a restaurant critic is I'm sure that will be her ambition too!

jayme1

I think it's disgusting how schools inspect a child's lunch, so what if she has a chocolate bar, soreen, whatever, it does in no way stop her having a healthy diet!!

I'd tell her not to let them inspect her lunchbox as it's an invasion of privacy.

this whole 5 fruit and veg a day is a con also, they set it at 5 a day because that's what the government thinks it can get away with forcing it down peoples throats, in the real world it completely varies and is impossible to put a figure on, your body can dismantle and build almost all the nutrients we need to survive (that's why the saying meat protein being better than vegetable protein is a complete lie, or you need to drink protien shakes to build better muscle is also a lie), you just have to ensure that you eat enough of the parts we cannot build ourselves like vitamin C and minerals like iron.

MarilynMonroe_2

The more I read about schools the more I believe in home schooling my dd.

sassyblue

gingin wrote: »

I went on a trip with dd's class and one child came with a tiny bread roll with some sort of paste, 2 fruit puree pouches and 2 fruit drinks (all organic stuff). The mother is a nutritionist so she must know her stuff but it looked very different from every other child's lunch box.

Funny sort of nutritionist, that lunch sounds awful and not nutritious at all! Organic or not the juice and pureed fruit are still sugary.

I remember last year (knowing about lunchbox zealots) asking a teacher in my sons reception class if he was okay to have a few wotsits or quavers in his lunchbox with everything else, she looked at me gone out and said 'some kids bring a packet of crisps in with theirs anyway', so his school sounds pretty laid back and must realise one lunchbox does not equate to the whole of the childs diet.

The only thing we've ever had explained is that they help reinforce the 'order' the food is eaten, so sandwich/pitta/crackers first, then sweeter stuff last - otherwise they said the kids will reach for the chocolate first. :rotfl:

easy

MarilynMonroe wrote: »

The more I read about schools the more I believe in home schooling my dd.

We have gone down a different route. DS has now moved into an independant school, which doesn't have to comply with these lunatic initiatives, and hence is able to focus on the business of teaching the children their academic subjects - and they are a small school, so they are also able to view each child as an individual, rather than just applying a blanket policy to all.

They have super school dinners BTW, and DON'T interfere with what the packed lunch brigade have in their sandwich boxes.


Of course it's costing us money (that's why I'm working full time again), but I see it as a good investment in DS's future. After our experiences with his primary school, my predictions for him in the state secondary were pretty bleak.