To think this school dinner is not good enough?

[s4sophie]

Pizza with potato wedges, peas and corn. Followed by a chocolate flavoured biscuit.
I'm happy the kids get pizza once in a while at school but this smacks of lazy unhealthy food. Not even fruit in the pudding.
Oh and they had this a couple of weeks ago but with baked beans instead of peas and corn.
Jamie Oliver wouldn't be impressed!

so they've had two pizza slices and portions of potato wedges in two weeks and that's too much?

What is the weekly menu like?

DS's school always have "slack Friday" which means pizza and/or chips and a nice pudding or milkshake. It doesn't bother me at all.

Everything in moderation and all that...

Send the child in with your own fruit-based lunch, perhaps? Pizza is carbohydrate, protein, fat, veggies... potato wedges, peas and corn are good starchy veg. A chocolate flavour biscuit sounds like a modest sweet treat.

Presumably they get a balanced diet at home? YABU to get aerated about one lunch. Ridiculous

Pizza is bread, tomato sauce and veg

I have no idea why anyone objects to pizza

Sounds like quite a nice lunch to me!

I don't think it's unrealistic...it depends what else they get through the week. At my DD's school they have some slightly rubbishy things too...but it's balanced by other healthy and more balanced meals. I personally don't serve perfect meals daily...I try but don't always have the time. I make up for it with loads of fruit and raw veg when they want snacks.

YABU. Chill out fgs.

Can you check out the school dinner menus?

Ours have to have 3 portions of fruit and veg in each meal. So although they come home and tell me that they had chocolate cake for pudding I know that the chocolate cake has pureed pear added to the mixture.

School dinners have to strike a balance between being healthy and being something that the majority of children will eat. My children are used to eating healthy home cooked food, but plenty of children are only used to fish fingers and chips type meals.

IMO it is better than school provide meals which are healthy but also appealing to children, eg HM pizzas with veg, oven baked wedges, oven baked salmon fingers etc, than super healthy looking food which gets thrown away.

SOunds fine to me!

DD comes home from nursery every other tuesdy (when thy have pizza) to tell me she wants to make pizza with tomato (which she never eats...) sweetcorn and ham on. I asked the cook (so we could copy!)and she says she uses a bread base with tinned tomatos that have ben reduced and purreed with carrots, then she adds some ham, sweetcorn and one piece of cheese.

Sounds great!

ALso, kids dietary requirements are different from adults.

sounds fine to me too

YABU. Doesn't sound bad at all to me - especially the main. If they are never offered a pudding that includes fruit then I can see why you would be more put out. Our school offers fruit OR a pudding. Veg OR spaghetti rings. Which bugs me because, despite the fact that DD will eat veg and fruit she will always choose the unhealthier option over those and thus comes home having had no fruit or veg at lunch.

what is this shit about pizza being junk food? it's bread and cheese and veg!

sounds like a fair lunch to me. I've certainly seen worse.

mumblecrumble also makes a good point - kids need fat. I watched a program where a nutrionist was criticising some nurseries for focusing too much on fruit and verg and not giving kids enough fat in their meals.

3 portions of fruit and veg in each meal? That's 'better' (if containing fruit and veg makes things better) than most meals I eat.

It does sound like you need to chill out.

Wait until your child is a teenager fgs

YABU. It's not a bad lunch. I don't see the need for the biscuits/cakes for pudding - fruit would be beter - but pizza and veg sounds quite acceptable to me.

I do have to scoff at these school 'healthy eating' campaigns, though. We got sent home another one of those patronising lists of what you should put in your child's packed lunch the other day. 'No sugary snacks please' was one of the commandments. Dropped my son off at breakfast club the other morning and the choices were chocolate Weetabix, Cocopops or Frosties. Yum, nutritious and not at all sugary!

better

Ok, it seems I'm in the minority

Dont get me wrong, I'm happy for pizza to be on the menu sometimes but I would expect it to be balanced with a healthier side (ie fresh veg) and/or healthier pudding.
In the past the school have given 'junk' food ie pizza or burgers etc but with more healthy stuff to go with. I wouldn't give pizza and chips ever - that's just carb overload IMHO.
The meals are normally well balanced and obviously I feed my kids healthily at home (I AM a mnettter )

In the school mine attend, they can ask for a piece of fruit instead of a yoghurt or dessert. I don't ask what my two do as I don't actually want to know the answer...

aren't peas vegetables??

Well if the meals are normally well balanced you are being even more unreasonable!! One less than perfect meal does not an obese child make.

Oh, and big LOL at 'and they had this a couple of weeks ago'

Do you never serve the same meal twice in a 3-week period?

s4sophie how are you defining "junk food"? Why is pizza junk?

and peas and sweetcorn are vegetables

thank you Greeny - I thought I was going slightly mad and had been neglecting to give my DS's vegetables by giving them peas..

TrilianAstra I wasn't that they had it a couple of weeks ago - it was that then it was with baked beans not even 2 types of frozen veg. Lazy cooking!