School Dinner Ladies

looby75

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

It is incredible that the "dinner ladies" are so poorly qualified that they have to have a blanket policy in place to substitute for the lack of skills and qualifications. A chocolate bar is one thing, but anyone capable of including an obviously home baked cake will have an idea or two about nutrition.

It is also incredible that schools see fit to interfere to begin with, while serving up an incredible amount of rubbish themselves.

My mum is a dinner lady, Mum has 4 kids and 6 grandchildren so she's pretty used to having kids around but has also been on various training courses on everything from encouraging healthy eating to active play in the playground.

In her school they do have a healthy eating policy, all children are encouraged to try new foods, with a rewards system such as stickers and certificates, (they are never yelled at for not trying something) and they have a healthy lunch box scheme too. Each week a child is picked for having the healthiest lunch box, nothing is banned as such but it's a kind of reverse pester power, the kids want the prize for having healthy foods and ask the parents for fruit instead of crisps. It doesn't work for everyone but since the scheme started a couple of years ago my Mum says she's noticed a lot less junk food in most of the kids lunch boxes.

With a bit of common sense there does seem to be a happy middle ground, my sons old school had very strict lunch box policy and the dinner ladies had the power to remove an entire lunch box and give a child a school dinner if they didn't think it was healthy enough :mad: I'm pleased that his high school has a much more lenient take on lunches.

looby75

jellyhead wrote: »

My MIL makes cakes using Splenda

can you get the recipe that she uses for me pretty please. I've tried so many times and I've never got it to turn out nice yet, more like biscuits than cake

jellyhead

looby75 wrote: »

can you get the recipe that she uses for me pretty please. I've tried so many times and I've never got it to turn out nice yet, more like biscuits than cake

I didn't say it turned out nice

jellyhead

Whatever you do, don't give the triangular flapjacks! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218

looby75

jellyhead wrote: »

Whatever you do, don't give the triangular flapjacks! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I thought about putting that on here too

cyclingyorkie

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Perhaps someone could at least answer the question of whether they have any qualifications at all to do the job.

I have undertaken a course entitled 'Midday Supervision in Primary Schools' - the qualification I gained is the equivalent of an A Level! I have been doing the job for 14 years and I have 3 kids of my own. Would that be enough for you?

Oh and I enjoy working with children.......

And if I do say it myself..... I am blooming good at my job.....