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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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PasturesNew wrote: »School dinners were the best and most exciting food I had. Every day all this great food, it was marvellous. If it hadn't been for school dinners there's loads of stuff I'd have never had/eaten/experienced.... semolina, pink custard, spotted !!!!!!, spam fritters, real rice pudding with a skin, cheese flan .... loads.... even really exotic stuff, like moussaka!
I'd hate to have missed it all because somebody interfered because they thought they knew best.
Everybody's parents cook "the same stuff all the time" - school dinners is more varied.... and, for many, better.
The point is to make it available to everybody, so nobody misses it.:D
Dunno about spam fritters though.
I [STRIKE]suspect [/STRIKE]know that the world will have more limited amounts of food in the future so mass-produced school dinners based on non-land-intensive foods may be a smart move..There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
What was that sponge cake, with jam on top, sprinkled with dessicated coconut, served with custard... loved it.Still striving to be mortgage free before I get to a point I can't enjoy it.
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02/19 - £78,400. 04/19 - £85,000. 05/19 - £83,300. 06/19 - £78,900.
07/19 - £77,500. 08/19 - £76,000.0 -
Me too. Loved that. It's got a name ...... er .... *googles* ... couldn't find the name, but here's somebody that made it: http://www.littlestuff.co.uk/2011/03/sunday-recipes-school-dinners-jam-and-coconut-sponge-squares/What was that sponge cake, with jam on top, sprinkled with dessicated coconut, served with custard... loved it.
Might have just been called "jam sponge" on the menu board.
Also: I've just remembered cobblers. I'd have never known about scones on top of beef stews if it weren't for school dinners.0 -
Also, school dinner mince wasn't as gristly and nasty as the grey, gristly mince encountered at home.... you still had to check it, but that crisp-topped mince slice wasn't ever gristly.
And the school dinner pastry in pies/slices/flans was nice and not dry.
Liver - we never had liver at home. I've only had it at school dinners. If you got a bit that wasn't tubey it tasted nice. Always gave it a miss if it was tubey though0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I just eat whatever I can be bothered to sling onto a plate .... I know nothing of nutrition.
Bothering to think a little about nutrition is a lot more important, IMO, for a boy on the verge of beginning his major adolescent growth spurt than for someone who's been their full adult height for several years already.Once our DKs decide they are big enough to have their own dietary foibles they will also need to be big enough to get it themselves rather than expecting DW/me to produce two different meals at a time.
For one thing, I am not "producing two different meals". I'm not "producing meals" for a family in the sense that you do. There are only the three of us, and my current mental state doesn't allow for much advance planning of food. So feeding the kids (and myself) consists mainly of going into the kitchen, looking in the fridge and freezer, and grabbing a selection of things that can be cooked without much effort and will include some carb, some protein and some fruit/veg. So when I ask him what he's happy to eat if he won't eat the sausages and bacon, I just make sure that the selection of things includes some things for everyone. I was frying eggs for myself anyway, and it wasn't exactly difficult to open a tin of tuna and mix some mayo in with it. Nothing got cooked that was eaten by just him, but no pair of the three of us had exactly the same combination.
Secondly, the strategy of "you want something different so you cook it yourself" isn't really wise to apply to a kid with some emotional problems, a very small appetite, and a tendency to not eating (or not eating enough), although I agree it's a great strategy to use with kids who don't have these issues. Given his history, I was just happy he not only ate but *wanted* to eat a decent sized meal with a balance of things, which is why I posted.PasturesNew wrote: »School dinners were the best and most exciting food I had. Every day all this great food, it was marvellous. If it hadn't been for school dinners there's loads of stuff I'd have never had/eaten/experienced.... semolina, pink custard, spotted !!!!!!, spam fritters, real rice pudding with a skin, cheese flan and a brilliant crisp-topped mince slice with gravy .... loads.... even really exotic stuff, like moussaka!
I'd hate to have missed it all because somebody interfered because they thought they knew best.
Everybody's parents cook "the same stuff all the time" - school dinners is more varied.... and, for many, better..
I enjoyed school dinners in the way you describe, although the food I got at home was good (and varied) too. I'm glad to say that DD enjoys hers too, which makes me feel a lot better about the random assortment of things that I manage to feed her at home.
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Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I've been this height since I was 10. I was tall back then... !Bothering to think a little about nutrition is a lot more important, IMO, for a boy on the verge of beginning his major adolescent growth spurt than for someone who's been their full adult height for several years already.0 -
What was that sponge cake, with jam on top, sprinkled with dessicated coconut, served with custard... loved it.
We had that at school too. Great stuff! I used to like the chocolate sponge with pink sauce, as well. No idea what the pink sauce was - and I daresay if I had it now I would find it cloyingly synthetic - but I have very happy memories of it. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've been this height since I was 10. I was tall back then... !
Who knows what different diet/nutrition might have made to any of us.
I was my height at twelve too, and probably could have been taller with more regular eating. ( not that it matters ) DH is a giant for his family but was anorexic in his teens. If he had eaten better during those last growth spurt for boy years might he have been taller still? Who knows. He's perfect kissing height for me so its al worked out fine, but its still interesting, and relevant to Lydia's ds. Boys care more about things like height generally.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »No wind, it's raining, looked out of the window and fence was flapping, wood stick had dropped to the floor, so I went off to try to find it and see if it'd snapped.... it's bushy there and garden was under 2" of water. As I was retrieving the stick, my eyes looking for it, my foot got entangled in a trailing rosebush twig/root hidden under a bush... and I've now a lot of stinging deep scratches on my foot.
Wood retrieved and reinstated, allbeit hurriedly as foot's now crippling me... limped back inside feeling forlorn and sorry for myself
It hurts.
Oh no. Poor you 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »
I only wish I could remember what it was.
Have you got a photograph of it?“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0
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