School Dinners

[Claw75]

You are right Sark - the vast majority of parents know what food is good for their kids and what isn't, but there are some people around that just don't seem to get it.  I remember when I was weaning my daughter there was something in the news at the time about young babies being fed pureed burgers and chips etc, following literally their health visitors' advice just to give their babies 'the same as you have'.  On the other extreme there was also a story in the news about a year ago about a baby/toddler who had died having been fed nothing but fruit and vegetables.

I think a lot of the trouble is the way food manufaturers package stuff that really isn't healthy, into making it look like 'good' food - 'no added sugar' etc.  Unless you really study the labels is very easy to be drawn in by it. 

[Sark79]

I think a lot of the trouble is the way food manufaturers package stuff that really isn't healthy, into making it look like 'good' food - 'no added sugar' etc.  Unless you really study the labels is very easy to be drawn in by it. 

Yep,  I agree with this.   In some ways it is similar to the bad parenting that is given to some Venus Fly Traps by feeding them things such as burgers.  Parents think just becasuse they eat burgers, their fly traps will like them as well.  A good parent feeds their plants on rain water

[Claw75]

I think a lot of the trouble is the way food manufaturers package stuff that really isn't healthy, into making it look like 'good' food - 'no added sugar' etc.  Unless you really study the labels is very easy to be drawn in by it. 

Yep,  I agree with this.   In some ways it is similar to the bad parenting that is given to some Venus Fly Traps by feeding them things such as burgers.  Parents think just becasuse they eat burgers, their fly traps will like them as well.  A good parent feeds their plants on rain water

surely a good parent feeds their fly traps flies???

[Sark79]

It is true that some parents think that way, but I have adopted an alternative style of parenting.  Venus flytraps can survive without eating flys.  Only yesterday I was in B&Q and was speaking to another parent at the baby bio counter, she believed in the more traditional approach to flytrap parenting, regular flys and insects.  I am not against this approach and if my flytap should chance upon a meaty fly then I won't be angry with him. As long as I offer my support, that is all that matters  . He has to make his own decisions

[Colchester Kev]

yeah, thats who I meant. the women in question didnt look like they were handling their first bag of chips

Adam .... break out the champers mate ...... That comment made me PMSL.


RESPECT

[madasahatstand]

 
joining kev in his hearty laughter!!

[Trace]

There was an interesting piece on the news the other day, i don't remember where it was but a group of mothers fed up with the new menu at their kids school were taking orders at the school gates and fetching food to the kids from the local chippie.
They were saying that the new menu was not very varied and that many of the kids simply did not like the food on offer and as a concequence were not eating at school at all.
It's one thing to offer a balanced menu and another entirely to offer nothing the kids want!!

But the kids prob dont want it because it is healthy and has veggies and all they are used to is crap!!  If kids were fed more fruit and veg from a young age they wouldn't hate it at school so much.

My two both have school dinners, costs me a bomb, but 1 im to lazy to make packed lunch and 2  it comes home uneaten.  Least with the school dinners I know they are eating something healthy, Jake often comes home and tells me what he's had to eat, he's desperate to grow at the moment then he can touch the floor when sat on his MX bike, so the more veggies he has the better as far as he is concerned.