British kids and eating habits - IABU ?

I prefer chilli flakes

Ooh bugger that, I love the big juicy buggers stuffed with garlic cloves.

you need to buy reduced salt, reduced fat olives but not upf obvs

Canned tuna is actually fairly low in mercury because of the size of fish they used for the tinned stuff. And providing you aren’t eating tuna every day, your mercury levels are likely to be fairly normal

I was going to ask this too. What IS wrong with olives?

you literally commented about how you can't believe people couldn't make bread in a few mins .. then said people weren't educated in nutrition. how else am I meant to take it?

the crack comment was clearly a joke

They bloody do lol. If you’ve never been to a playground with Italian kids you don’t know what a tantrum is.

A lot of roasting of the UK by ‘superior’ continentals who look down on us. My kids state primary school had amazing lunches.

If you feed your children decent meals at home then you don’t need to fret.

😄Only on Mumsnet, eh ...

He still thinks olives are good for you in spite of me trying to educate him!

What is wrong with olives????

Tuna - salty, oily, you might as well give your children crack

😂😂😂

I wasn’t actually referring to you in my comment about lack of nutrition knowledge (which is why I didn’t quote you) but I’m certainly not taking lessons on being non-judgemental from someone who says things like ‘are you on crack’

Tuna is a big predator so will be full of mercury. Not massively healthy either...

and also, my mum taught me how to cook and bake when I was growing up. I did Home Ec GCSE and I cooked family meals from age 14. So take your judgey pants elsewhere about my knowledge of nutrition.

urm no... I've got 3 children and a full time job. I also make packed lunches for them daily (I always include raw veggies for those of you wondering if I pack Doritos and Red Bull).

I also cook their evening meals from scratch.

So by the time I've done school runs, worked, made dinner and put them to bed, washed the dishes and tidied the house and done a load of laundry NO I do not have time to hand make bread and cleaning up the doughy mess (so messy).

If that makes me lazy, so be it.

Also they get similar menu at school in Spain. Plus soups and fresh fish, casserols based on legumes, all made from scratch.
I grew up in the 1980s and this was standard. Dessert at school was fruit, sometimes yogurt.
All children are used to it and they have it from.early age.

Some people are quite defensive on here but I'm like you. I'm amazed at what people feed their kids. Ours love beige fried food too so it's an uphill battle to get them to eat fairly healthily.

The snack culture is crazy. Everywhere there are kids,they have to have a snack. Unnecessary at best.

Kids meals are all nuggets,burgers,sausages, pizza or fish fingers ( or pasta).

Pudding everyday for their school lunch. The worst school lunch at my kids' school is sausage roll/chips and then chocolate cake. How on earth is anyone thinking that's ok? No nutrition, just processed fat and sugar.

We try to balance all of this with home cooked meals but my husband is not really backing me up (he's British). He loves unhealthy stuff,snacks all evening long and then is not hungry for breakfast in the morning (surprise surprise!) . He looks at vegetarian food as if it's abnormal and almost never eat fruit. However he has 2 bags of crisps every day! He still thinks olives are good for you in spite of me trying to educate him!
He's genetically lucky as he's slim by nature and quite fit but I'm not sure how!

My kids usually feel better and behave and sleep better when they eat healthy food.

We eat baked beans,sausages and pizza too but it's not that often and I try to buy organic or better quality if I can.

I want to get rid of white bread but I'm not sure I'll win this one!

So yes, Britain is a country with a massive issue with obesity (pardon the pun) and the food people eat everyday is definitely part of this. It would be foolish to pretend otherwise.

As a kid we were always given a pudding at school, and my kids were too. It’s normal here.

But what toppings would go on the potato?
Beans - As already established, not OK
Cheese and butter - probably processed, ready grated cheese. Dripping in fat, higher in salt than beans.
Tuna - salty, oily, you might as well give your children crack
Chilli - OK if freshly prepared and simmered for hours to really release the flavours. But likely the dastardly school would put sugar in it, or buy in chilli which would have added sugar.

I just googled obesity in Malta. Seems to be quite a concern there. I'll stick to sausage and mash thanks.

I. don't. have. a bread maker.

The crack comment was clearly a joke. Chill your beans.

Then there was no need to make a rude comment about it being time consuming then when it actually isn’t time consuming at all with a bread maker - which is what the poster was pointing out (and yes I have a bread maker as do at least 3 people I know!)

it tastes amazing buy seriously, who has time? not me. cakes are quicker.

The continent is a very large area. As someone who comes from a Mediterranean country, I can tell you now that children there are still eating chicken nuggets and portion sizes are much bigger than here and children are constantly being fed. Many children don't eat a proper meal in the evening but will get a kabab on their way home from school and then eat bread at home. The stats agree with me too with many countries on the continent are projected to have massive childhood obesity problems.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1305394/european-countries-with-highest-projected-levels-of-child-obesity/

I also worked in another school on the continent and they didn't get school lunches. Packed lunches were a sandwich and fruit, but there was still a huge queue every break time for sweets and chocolate at the kiosk.

UK eating habits are not brilliant but as a teacher, I would argue that packed lunches have become healthier over the past 10 years and schools are making a more conscious effort than ever to be healthier. But you have to be realistic too. Schools in the UK are catering for much larger audiences. Many schools on the continent close at lunchtime or have longer lunch breaks and many don't provide school dinners full stop.

What’s this please? I eat properly baked bread but sometimes I fancy the shape and texture of a bought sliced loaf but never buy it any more!

and hence my comment as not everyone has a bread maker, or space for one. I don't actually know anyone who has one. Perhaps in 2014... but now everyone seems to have air fryers.