Is Soreen Malt Loaf healthy?

newcook

Wow! Just wow!! I don’t have any kids yet but Im shocked that the school dinner ladies (oops, sorry – lunchtime assistants) feel they can tell children what they can and cant eat and also tell them its unhealthy and it will make them fat!!

Its bad enough that teenagers get a complex and eating disorders because they want to be thin like their pop idol.

What ever happened to letting children be children?! Let them eat cake and chocolate then run around like crazy in the playground like we all used to!!!! I only remember a couple of children at school being overweight and that was because their parents used to give them adult size portions for their tea.

**curlywurly**

newcook wrote: »

What ever happened to letting children be children?! Let them eat cake and chocolate then run around like crazy in the playground like we all used to!!!! I only remember a couple of children at school being overweight and that was because their parents used to give them adult size portions for their tea.

Hear hear! I think the lunchbox / food police have gone too far. I also read the thread about the home-made hoummus... shocking!

Welshwoofs

puddy wrote: »

im playing high fat devils avocado

Ahh well in my world there's nowt wrong with fat. Obesity in the Western world has co-incided with the wide availability and cheap price of foods which are full of starchy carbs and refined sugars. Humans have always eaten fat - it's just the artificial 'transfats' which are the bad things.

I have no idea what schools look for these days so can only summise that they consider Soreen a cake (which given the amount of sugar in it is a pretty fair assessment). However like all 'well meaning' nannying it's a bit wide at the mark because it's the over-all diet that counts and that is quite difficult to ascertain from only a child's lunch box.

Welshwoofs

meritaten wrote: »

especially as there is ample evidence that chocolate (in moderation) is GOOD for you!

Ahhh, but that evidence is for the dark chocolate with 70%+ cocoa solids because it's the cocoa beans that contain high levels of flavanols.

Unfortunately, the stuff they tend to use in products that kids go for hardly rates the label 'chocolate' as it has minute amounts of cocoa solids but massively high amounts of milk and sugar.

gwhizz75

Becles wrote: »

...school provide water for them to drink

Sounds more like a prison than a school!!

dizziblonde

Now if you want a BAD packed lunch - may I nominate (no word of a lie this one) - half a chocolate Easter egg and three (dry) Jacobs cream crackers?
Or - chocolate spread sandwiches, chocolate milkshake, chocolate mousse and a chocolate biscuit?

pelirocco

My grandaughter isnt allowed to take in oranges because a teacher is allergic to them ? , nor is she allowed squash , because apparently its unhealthy ( roll eyes ) however they are allowed to BUY orange juice at break time .......undiluted juice of course being so good for the teeth

Welshwoofs

dizziblonde wrote: »

Or - chocolate spread sandwiches, chocolate milkshake, chocolate mousse and a chocolate biscuit?

Bleurgh - that's nasty. I remember when I was at school there was one kid who had the same packed lunch every day; jam sandwiches, bag of crisps, chocolate bar and a cupcake. He was built like a racing snake because he was very active.....but if that was indicative of his normal diet he certainly wouldn't have been healthy. Also not very good for afternoon concentration in the classroom - all that sugar would make the blood/sugar spike big-time...and then crash a couple of hours later.

sassyblue

Crikey the do-gooders start early don't they? The dinnerlady is totally out of order for saying anything to a 4 year old, any message about her food should have been conveyed to you. Don't they realise it's dangerous to give children complexes about food at the age of 4??

Everything in moderation IMO, l make sure DS always has a healthy lunchbox, he does like fruit and veg anyway but l don't mind him having a bag of crisps or small bar of chocolate when he's home as a treat.

They've just started cooked school dinners in our school, two days running the meals are pizza and chips then fish and chips not what l'd serve at home.

Hope you get an answer OP.

dizziblonde

pelirocco wrote: »

My grandaughter isnt allowed to take in oranges because a teacher is allergic to them ? , nor is she allowed squash , because apparently its unhealthy ( roll eyes ) however they are allowed to BUY orange juice at break time .......undiluted juice of course being so good for the teeth

Teachers get allergic too! I know of one teacher who has an allergy to latex - meaning rubber bands, normal rubbers (those horrid plastic ones that don't actually rub out properly are ok), balloons etc are all blocked at the school. She can cope if another classroom's using something like elastic bands on peg boards and she knows to stay clear of the room, but in her own room it would set her right off - I'm guessing it's similar to that in terms of the orange being sold at breaktime away from the affected teacher, but oranges in the classroom all morning before break would cause problems if that makes sense?

Squash is a common one to ban - because then it becomes a nightmare of "he won't drink water in his water bottle", and then when the squash gets guzzled by 10am there's tears and drama and upset because there's no more! (Plus when it leaks everywhere as water bottles have this uncanny art of doing - it don't half get sticky!)

As for the sugar rush thing - I remember the first day I was teaching the odd lesson on teaching practice. It unfortunately coincided with the cake stall for Children in Need at the preceeding breaktime... mid-way through the lesson the sugar suddenly simultaneously hit 30 small children and I went from "wow this is going really well to OH MY GAWD HELP ME HELP HELP!" You could literally see it take effect really dramatically!