My DD just started school. I'm a bit shocked by the food. They get fruit and milk at morning break which is fine. Dinner they get a choice of hot dinner or sandwich. The hot dinner is on a 3 week rotation (although Fridays are always fish and chips) and every dinner includes a pudding. The published info says fruit and vegetables are available every day. They get the whole meal together- main course and pudding. What I'm bothered about is that my DD is often choosing the sandwich and says they can't have vegetables with this. She also says she has ice cream every day (this in not on the menu). So often her dinner is ham sandwich and ice cream. I would prefer if they had no choice of opting out of the hot food (or ideally had a choice of 2 hot meals, 1 vegetarian) and that the only pudding was fruit or plain yoghurt (but I accept that is probably unrealistic). I'm actually quite shocked given all the child obesity stats and dental problems that they are giving daily puddings and ice creams. Is this normal?
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