Hi, My 1st son is turning 6 next week (youngest in his class) and moving into year 2. My middle child is 4 and starting school in the same class. It's a v.small primary school and years Reception 1 and 2 are in the same classroom.
Basically i have signed them up for school dinners, but they refuse to have them. My eldest has had them on occasion before, and he says he doesn't like people watching him go up to get his food. Also the times he did go for fish fingers for example, he didn't eat them as they had 'brown' bits in them and there wasn't any tomato sauce. So basically he's Mr grumpy at hometime and ravenous for tea at 3.30.
He says he will have a hot dinner or the Jacket Potato alternative if i go in and eat with him, but i also have a 11 month old and obviously paying £2.60 a day for my meal is out of the question.
My 4 year old doesn't want to have a hot dinner either, he's been going over with his packed lunch from playgroup and joining the main school children in the hall and is still refusing to try most new foods i offer him, even if the ingredients of which he eats separately.
They each have their own identical packed lunches every day - one philadelphia, one laughing cow sandwiches plus their preferred other bits and bobs. I have never sent them with crisps but other parents do, i send fruit based snacks like humzingers and a cake bar, cheesestring, yogurt tubes, bottle of squash etc so i can see why the school dinner alternative would leave them hungry, thinking about how many calories they would ultimately consume.
Just annoyed that i am missing out on not getting any free food for them. If i did make them have a hot lunch i'm sure i'd be doing tea early and then that leads to supper later on before bed so i'd be feeding them twice in the evening so not sure it would save me any money if i did force it on days when the menu is suitable.............
Does anyone else have this lunchtime problem?
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My Children wont eat school dinners - still on packed lunches in September
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destroyerOFdandelions · 01/08/2014 00:03
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