about school puddings?

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I have been really surprised by the school dinners at DDs school, especially the puddings. I had the impression (probably from the BBC going on about it all the time) that school dinners were really healthy nowadays. Plus all the emphasis about healthy lunchboxes, taking fruit in for snacks etc etc.

At DD's school the pudding menu for the week (on average) is cake and custard for two days, jelly and ice cream for two days, and choc/strawberry mousse for the other day.

Now I don't have any problem with this as DD is quite picky and at least I know she is eating SOMETHING. Plus she eats plenty of fruit and I totally agree with the 'everything in moderation' viewpoint. But it doesn't seem to chime with all the healthy eating the school seem to promote with lunchboxes and snacks.

AIBU to wonder why the puddings are not healthier?

i think lot more are now made on the premises hence the healthy eating as opposed to processed packet mixes and brought in cakes etc.
I think we confuse healthy eating with being on diet and cutting out sugars fats etc. There have been few articles bout how we are cutting out too mny fats and sugars and children losing out on essentil fts.
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Couldn't agree more. I have nothing against the puddings, except I am told not to send my choice of snacks for my very thin and active child.
Also, the militant head dinner lady is as wide as she is high - looks good, her confiscating a biscuit

Have you asked the school?

My DS's school has puddings like flapjack, fruit pie/sponge and custard, fresh fruit salad, cake etc - stodgy but all home made, they have ice cream once a week as a 'treat'. That seems about right to me - I still have memories of the disgusting spotted dick type pudding we used to have at school in the 1960s - realise I am very old !

YANBU, I don't see the problem with doing only healthy options tbh - as opposed to healthy in moderation. Some kids would always choose the 'in moderation' option thereby making it unhealthy.

YAsoNBU!

This one really get me going. If my dc's had school dinners five days a week, they would get pudding every time. But when they have packed lunches, I get a note sent home if I give them a two finger kit kat!

We're over it now, but when ds1 first started school, he would ask me after every single meal if he could have pudding. When he was met ith a 'no', he'd say 'but we get pudding after every lunch at school'.

It annoys me because if I want to be able to give them a treat after school, it makes me think twice. I do have to watch ds1's weight, and what with school puddings, and his Dad 'treating' him at the weekend, I feel like the meanie!

But apparantly school puddings are as as healthy as they can be, and are not as loaded with sugar as they would appear

It's quite likely that the school has no control over the lunches. I work at a school and the lunches are made and the menus set by an outside company. We have no choice of company, we have to use the one the LA have a contract with, or take over the whole thing completely ourselves - which is quite a big commitment and probably not viable for smaller schools.

Our school puddings tended to use very little sugar or other things, using apple or carrot/beetroot to sweeten them. The custard was also very short on flavour sugar.

If the kitchen brought some through to the staffroom (because they'd made too much) they were rarely eaten because they tasted of nothing much.