Is Soreen Malt Loaf healthy?

puddy

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Fructose is not digested as easy as glucose.

im playing high fat devils avocado

VestanPance

puddy wrote: »

avocado?? very high in fat,, tut tut

i am playing devils avocado by the way

High in fat, but the right kind of fat. Great for muscle repair.

Then again the whole fat, salt etc is bad for you is incorrect. A high carb diet is way worse for an inactive person than a hight fat diet. I'm an active lad so I stuff my face with everything.

puddy

VestanPance wrote: »

High in fat, but the right kind of fat. Great for muscle repair.

Then again the whole fat, salt etc is bad for you is incorrect. A high carb diet is way worse for an inactive person than a hight fat diet. I'm an active lad so I stuff my face with everything.

i know, imagine a dinner of salmon and avocado - the calories and fat is through the roof

bigmomma051204

Ha - bloomin' ridiculous! Of course Malt Loaf is FINE! Its hardly a blinkin' Twix is it!!

The school are being stupidly over-zealous to ensure that they keep hold of their "healthy setting status". What a nonsense. You carry on feeding your child what sounds to me like an EXTREMELY healthy diet. You should be proud of that lunchbox.

I work with parents who TRULY believe that a lunchbox for a 4year old should consist of: Dairylea lunchables, mars bar, chocolate chip muffin and bag of cheese & onion crisps. Oh and a carton of ribena. Or a bottle of coke. (honestly)
THESE parents are the ones who need settings to care about what the children accessing their services are eating and drinking. And they DO NOT need telling off. Let alone telling the CHILD off (disgraceful and i would be complaining to the school personally as singling a child out in front of their peers for something which is not only a small issue but one over which they have NO control is not acceptable in ANY way.)

bigmomma051204

gingin wrote: »

I love it too, and think it's a fine choice for a packed lunch.

It's not good to make a little one feel guilty about food choices at that age, especially when you can assume a four year old isn't making her own lunch. they should have really taken it up with you if they really had an issue with it.

It reminds me of the homemade guacamole saga, does anyone else remember it?

What was the saga, lol?? I can imagine though i suppose......... :cool:

gingin_2

bigmomma051204 wrote: »

What was the saga, lol?? I can imagine though i suppose......... :cool:

I think a child was told off about their delicious sounding guacamole as it fell into the same category as a dairlea dunkable. It went on and on and resulted in lying dinnerladies and a sacking (I think)

Becles

Spendless wrote: »

What did they actually say to her becles?

Yes - same school.

It was just when I opened the cupboard when I was cooking tea tonight, I knocked the packet out and she said "oh don't put that in my lunchbox again Mam because I got wrong" and she explained what happened. I've only got her word, so I'm keeping an open mind at the moment, but I'll pop in and ask nicely tomorrow.

Last week I bought sweet mince pies to eat at home and she wouldn't eat them as someone had taken one into school and they'd been told they are too fattening. That drives me insane as she's skinny and runs around like an idiot most of the time, so an odd mince pie isn't going to harm her! Persuaded her it was fine and she happily ate one.

The rules are so confusing! There's not an official list of things that are allowed or not allowed. All chocolate and drinks are banned which is fair enough, and school provide water for them to drink.

Crisps is a minefield as potato crisps are banned but "maize based snacks" such as Wotsits and Quavers are allowed. Children just see them all as crisps though and don't understand the difference.

Previously she said a dinner lady checked the packet on Tesco rocket shaped crackers but nothing was said to her. I sent those with a mini tub of Philadelphia cheese as she likes dunking them. Dairylea Lunchables/Dunkers etc., are allowed without question though. I never said anything to school about that though and just told her maybe the dinner lady had never seen them before and wondered what they were.

Then school dinner children are allowed things like sponge pudding and chocolate cake, as their lunch is provided by an outside catering company and it's nutritionally balanced by experts. Try explaining that one to a 4 year old!

meer53

Malt loaf is bad for the teeth, sticks to them. I always used to give my son dried fruit when he was small until my dentist friend said it wasn't a good idea. The fruit sticks to the teeth causing decay.

hels123_2

candygirl wrote: »

I bet it was a busy body dinner lady;).They used to think they ran the school back in the day:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

They still bloody do at my DD school!!

peachyprice

Becles wrote: »

Then school dinner children are allowed things like sponge pudding and chocolate cake, as their lunch is provided by an outside catering company and it's nutritionally balanced by experts. Try explaining that one to a 4 year old!

This is what really pee's me off. The SD children get to have chocolate sponge, muffins, treacle sponge, custard (chocolate and normal) ice cream & jelly etc but packed lunches aren't allowed anything of the sort. Double standards or what. :mad: