School Dinner Ladies

jem132

I am in a real quandry with school my children take a well balanced lunch box everyday they asked if they could take some nuts and seeds last week yep was my answer so in went my home made nut collection contains mixed nuts and seeds along with chocolate chips well all he'll broke loose becose it had chocolate in. They have pudding in hot lunch so yesterday I sent him with the worse ever lunch just to see what they said chocolate spread sandwich, choc milkshake, chocolate covered raisins, apple with chocolate dip and a chocolate biscuit and nothing got said at all I can not believe it.

thunderbird

merlin1 wrote: »

The food, imo is worse than when i was there! I can see exactly what he orders - and its pizzas, paninis, etc. He was given the option of a sit down meal - no time. but even his year rep (teacher) states there are far too many children to feed within the time given. its not easy but I make sure to balance it with dinner at home at night. well I try my best

That sounds very like my son's school. Another issue is that the food has got increasingly expensive! I had assumed it would not be run for profit and should therefore be really good value (how wrong I was!) I am now giving him a packed lunch each day as the cost was ridiculous and there were far too many cookies, pastries and milk shakes being bought...

Janepig

DD and DS both have packed lunch - DD because the portions in school dinners are too small for her, DS because he wastes his school dinners. DD can't get enough food in her lunchbox whereas you'd struggle to feed a budgerigar on what DS takes. DD has (wholemeal) garlic philly sandwiches every single day (don't know how she doesn't get bored with it), laughing cow triangle, a babybel, two plums (sometimes a pot of blueberries too), a yoghurt stick, a breakaway (or similar), a couple of mini scotch egg things, a couple of cocktail sausages or a spicy pepperami, sometimes a muffin, and on Monday and Friday she's allowed crisps as a treat. Washed down with a bottle of orange squash (made up in the house). I'm sure there's other stuff but I can't remember. She's like a rake though - a rake with hollow legs!

DS is only allowed a biscuit if he's eaten everything from the day before, which usually consists of sandwich (one round, DD has two), sausage/pepperami and a yoghurt stick. He also takes apple slices in a bag for morning snack.

There is one horrible dinnerlady who works at the school, she was there when MIL was the cook there, and she's still there. She screams and shouts, they foolishly gave her a tambourine once for her to shake when the children were being too noisy. Bearing in mind there's almost 500 kids at the school then with the best will in the world there's going to be a din. I think she tends to leave my two alone though because she knows MIL and knows that they'll tell her if she shouts at them.

Jx

anniemf2508

merlin1 wrote: »

Last summer they had a 35 million pound rebuild of the the main school building which housed the hall/canteen. in its place were a number of catering wagons. now the build is finished, they have implemented a thumbprint/parentpay system.

The food, imo is worse than when i was there! I can see exactly what he orders - and its pizzas, paninis, etc. He was given the option of a sit down meal - no time. b

that sounds pretty much the same as my daughters school

Janepig

jellyhead wrote: »

Ours aren't allowed to walk to school alone at age 7. My eldest is now in 6th form, and when he was at that school they allowed kids to walk home alone from year 3 onwards (year 3 is age 7-8 if anyone's wondering) but nowadays the teachers bring all children into the playground and they have to be collected by an adult. I suppose they could walk to school alone and school would be none the wiser.

DS will be in year 3 in September and he'll be allowed to come out of school alone so I'll be waiting in the car in the car park (the school is quite a distance from the house and it's on my way home from work, it's not laziness!). Basically the teachers leave them out and then tell them to come back if their parents/whoever are not there. DD's been doing this since year 3 and I try and make sure I'm in roughly the same place every day.

They're pretty relaxed with the infants too though really - I usually collect a variety of kids from DS's class every day and they don't question me, although I don't exactly fit the stereotype of a child abductor I suppose. It's just that I know some schools would be much more strict about it.

Jx

jellyhead

Janepig wrote: »

DD and DS both have packed lunch - DD because the portions in school dinners are too small for her, DS because he wastes his school dinners. DD can't get enough food in her lunchbox whereas you'd struggle to feed a budgerigar on what DS takes. DD has (wholemeal) garlic philly sandwiches every single day (don't know how she doesn't get bored with it), laughing cow triangle, a babybel, two plums (sometimes a pot of blueberries too), a yoghurt stick, a breakaway (or similar), a couple of mini scotch egg things, a couple of cocktail sausages or a spicy pepperami, sometimes a muffin, and on Monday and Friday she's allowed crisps as a treat. Washed down with a bottle of orange squash (made up in the house). I'm sure there's other stuff but I can't remember. She's like a rake though - a rake with hollow legs!

DS is only allowed a biscuit if he's eaten everything from the day before, which usually consists of sandwich (one round, DD has two), sausage/pepperami and a yoghurt stick. He also takes apple slices in a bag for morning snack.

There is one horrible dinnerlady who works at the school, she was there when MIL was the cook there, and she's still there. She screams and shouts, they foolishly gave her a tambourine once for her to shake when the children were being too noisy. Bearing in mind there's almost 500 kids at the school then with the best will in the world there's going to be a din. I think she tends to leave my two alone though because she knows MIL and knows that they'll tell her if she shouts at them.

Jx

Yikes your daughter must have hollow everything! :rotfl: What's a yoghurt stick, is it like a frube?

My 7 year old who is obese takes 3 things like your DS - a ham sandwich, a bag of fruit or tomato and cucumber and sometimes a penguin bar or similar or some cocktail sausages, or cold boiled egg. When I give him a treat it's the smallest I can find, like those little Kinder bars. today he took a tiny Lindt bunny that probably contained less chocolate than the outside of a penguin bar.

I seem to be the only person on this thread who thinks the school dinner portions are too large :rotfl:

My eldest has the appetite of a sparrow, so he used to take 2 dry crackers and some fruit. The dinner ladies never commented, but on a school trip the teaching assistant was concerned that he might not have enough to eat.

jellyhead

Janepig wrote: »

DS will be in year 3 in September and he'll be allowed to come out of school alone so I'll be waiting in the car in the car park (the school is quite a distance from the house and it's on my way home from work, it's not laziness!). Basically the teachers leave them out and then tell them to come back if their parents/whoever are not there. DD's been doing this since year 3 and I try and make sure I'm in roughly the same place every day.

They're pretty relaxed with the infants too though really - I usually collect a variety of kids from DS's class every day and they don't question me, although I don't exactly fit the stereotype of a child abductor I suppose. It's just that I know some schools would be much more strict about it.

Jx

I collect various kids each day too, and nobody questions it, but they wouldn't let any of them walk home alone I don't think. I'd probably allow mine to, but I'd meet him at the crossroads near our house because it's a really busy road with boy racers causing accidents. I could never trust him to walk to school in the morning though, because he stops to stroke every cat and dog on the way and he'd never get there

Janepig

jellyhead wrote: »

Yikes your daughter must have hollow everything! :rotfl: What's a yoghurt stick, is it like a frube?

My 7 year old who is obese takes 3 things like your DS - a ham sandwich, a bag of fruit or tomato and cucumber and sometimes a penguin bar or similar or some cocktail sausages, or cold boiled egg. When I give him a treat it's the smallest I can find, like those little Kinder bars. today he took a tiny Lindt bunny that probably contained less chocolate than the outside of a penguin bar.

I seem to be the only person on this thread who thinks the school dinner portions are too large :rotfl:

My eldest has the appetite of a sparrow, so he used to take 2 dry crackers and some fruit. The dinner ladies never commented, but on a school trip the teaching assistant was concerned that he might not have enough to eat.

Yes a frube. Summertime I'll stick them in the freezer and they help keep everything cool until lunchtime.

I wish DS would eat something like a boiled egg but no. No cheese either. He loves milk and yoghurt so he's got nothing against dairy, but he won't entertain cheese at all. His problem is that he is the child as mentioned earlier in the thread, who wants to take one bite of his sandwich and then rush out to play football with the boys. Failing that, he's usually acting like an idiot for the entertainment of his friends, instead of eating.

One of DD's friends has a packed lunch full of chocolatey things (nutella sarnies, mini rolls, choccy bickies, etc...) and her mother teaches cookery (or whatever it's called now) in comprehensive school!!!

Jx

System

I once got old off by the dinner ladies cos they caught me squashing up my sandwiches and trying to throw them away. In my defence they were made with soya margerine which made everything taste rank and it was wafer thin ham (and i hated that). That was also peach melba yoghurt day which i also tried to get rid of.

I was so happy once i was able to have school dinners!

zaxdog

Our school dinners were fairly rank and wayyyyyyy too small. My usual packed lunch was:

2 rounds of sandwiches (veggie pate, cheese spread and salad)
Chunk of cheese
Carrot/pepper/cucumber sticks
2 or 3 pieces of fruit
Slice or two of homemade cake
Yogurt (homemade with peach or pineapple chunks)

In winter Mum would add a flask of homemade soup :j

I used to get constantly weighed and examined at school/doc for being too underweight/pale :eek:

Dinner ladies tended to just leave me to munch with a book :rotfl: