To think banning fried eggs is a step too far?

My teens school serve fried egg and/or sausage toasties at morning break among other things.
They need be eaten on the go, as there’s no option to sit down with a knife and fork to eat boiled, scrambled, poached or any other types of eggs.

Without the fried eggs they’ll be stuck with just the crappy sausages.

The pudding says must include fruit, the sweet deserts are restricted it’s says 2 maximum a week in secondary and 1 in primary

Don't cook them in oil. Small knob of butter melted in a pan. Add lightly beaten eggs, salt and pepper. Stir gently until 'curds' form. Turn off heat whilst there's still some liquid as they will continue cooking. Serve.

Never use the microwave.

This is the bigger tragedy, those children who have never eaten vegetables at home, if all they know is processed food it’s imperative they get healthy food at school. Lazy parenting, uneducated parenting and ignorant parenting have truly ruined the starts for so many children, it’s terribly depressing.

Yes, there are benefits to eg raw honey that aren't present in granulated sugar but in terms of the effect of the sugar on your body, they are the same. Your body metabolises both as just 'sugar'.

When I was at school we were taught how to cook basic nutritional meals from scratch my children have not been taught this by the school they were supposed to make vegetable soup first ingredient tin of vegetable soup sliced bread for croutons basically they taught secondary school children how to open a tin of soup heat it up and make a few croutons then they had to bring it home in a tub

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You might preferred poached eggs. Some people prefer fried.

That's what I do. I used to add milk because my mother did, but I think she did it to make two eggs go round four of us, to be honest.

We sometimes ask our child but he might say chilli, spaghetti Bol, cottage pie etc. what’s wrong with that?

If you trust your child not to demand McDonald’s for tea then nothing wrong with a choice.

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No you’re right we all like different things. But I’ve tried scrambling without oil and I can’t get the texture right at all. I might try again and add chilli and Indian spices though and maybe a drizzle of chilli oil!

If you look at the pan after frying an egg, it’s still full of oil because eggs don’t absorb the fat. I think sugary foods and UPF’s are the biggest issues for children and for society as a whole. Not the only issues, but the ones that need tackled urgently.

even less if south have a non-stick pan and a paper towel (or clean cloth).

tiny splash of oil, use cloth to thinly spread the oil around the pan and soak up the excess and crack in egg(s).

I love scrambled eggs with a bit of salt and a dash of milk… in fact I prefer it to a fried egg.

Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean no one else does?

You can't buy them from the catering service that supplies thousands of schools at the same time. All the food in schools must have a shelf life of 1 year. A bit like food for soldiers in 1ww trenches.
And then no one knows why obesity rates are crazy...

I wonder if it's a geographical thing.

Very few kids around here that are noticeably overweight and lots of very worrying competitive undereating in the high school girls from a young age. Much of it for show with healthy, very slim girls who clearly eat more than they say they do, but some listen and become underweight and unwell.

Even DDs normally sensible friend group were influenced by it on their last school trip with all except one having an empty bread roll for lunch. Weirdly the girl who was loudest with the competitive undereating on that trip had the worst eating habits at home.

Some children are just picky.

Even when everyone else is eating a home made healthy dinner, with a bit of sause and veg all they want is essentially dry food, plain pasta, burgers, steak, chicken, sausage, nuggets. Note the lack of veg in there. And no where to hide it.
It just becomes hard.

They'll do crunchy yougart but never fruit ones. And refused all baby food, purees, mince and mash.

Won't touch school dinners other than fish day.

I really liked the liver that they served at school, as well. The only foods I did not like, and would struggle to eat, were the greens, broad beans, and prunes. I love greens now, but as a child, they tasted very bitter.

Fried egg is better than scrambled as you get less cooking fat in the end dish ?

Can someone please enlighten me how to scramble an eggs and make it tasty and appetising without a decent amount of butter? Or oil?

This seems to match what DS' school already serve tbh, they do have pudding every day but with no added sugar and usually secret veg eg the chocolate cake they all love is made with beetroot. The pasta is whole wheat etc. I don't send him to breakfast club because we don't need it and it is just cereal and toast, he is now in juniors and every classroom has a toaster and they can have a toasted bagel and a piece of fruit while they do their early morning work from 8:35-9 , his school is 38% PP so I guess this is a good way to feed children who aren't brought to breakfast club but might not get a good breakfast at home.

DS had overnight oats this morning with nut butter, banana, greek yoghurt, whole milk, cinnamon and stewed apple and pear (thanks to MILs fruit trees I get a big batch every autumn and stew then with a cinnamon stick and vanilla pod and freeze into cubes) , he will definitely have a bagel and fruit this morning too. He is 9th centile for weight despite eating more than me so I'm glad of it.

I was a child in the 60s and 70s and my mum was a great home cook but I never once remember her asking what I would like to eat. She cooked, we sat and ate it. Maybe apart from birthdays. I can’t help overhearing sometimes parents asking their child what they would like for tea.

But that is people with diabetes, it is normal to have spikes if you dont have diabetes with no ill effects, the difference is whether they are short lived acute spikes that dont come down after 2 hours since food. The likes of ZOE was spreading this misinformation so they could sell their diet apps

There’s a million other ways to cook an egg, so why would a school cook it in the most unhealthy way possible? Makes perfect sense that they would scramble, boil or poach instead.