AIBU to not like idea of DD ordering Dominoes pizza for school lunch!

[AndiPandi]

Apparently a group of them get together and order pizzas at break taking advantage of Tues BOGOF and a delivery driver brings them to school at lunchtime. Am I just being old fashioned objecting to this? DD is in first year at secondary school. I already hate that they are allowed out to roam the streets during lunchtime but this seems worse although if I'm honest I'm kit sure why!

Unfortunately, there is very little joined up thinking between OTT attitude to healthy eating at primary and the food at secondary.

We don't have chocolate and pure fizz in the vending machines, but generally the food isn't very good.

If you want to do a club at lunch time it's far easier to have a bacon butty at brunch and skip lunch altogether.

They aren't allowed out at lunch but enterprising DCs sell sweets from the cash and carry on the bus, or they shoot of site before getting on the bus to the sweet shop.

Town DCs clearly buy junk going to and from school and given the lunch queues, the temptation to fill up on junk either end of the day is huge.

I was doing stuff like this 35 years ago when I was at High school- just not pizza! Our lunch time was the chippy that put on Monday to Friday lunch time special offers on.

I doubt shes eating a whole pizza either if sharing with friends so probably having one or two slices. I wouldn't worry. Just do something healthy for tea on tuesdays to make up for it

"Make sure Tuesday's dinner is lovely and healthy and light to compensate if you're worried about nutrition."

On the days when my ds has a couple of slices of pizza for lunch, dinner has to be lovely and healthy but bloody enormous rather than "light"!

I think its a great idea tbh.

Sounds like a crap school that lets schoolchildren aged 11 wander the streets

I agree they sound extremely enterprising!

I can see why your worried health wise but perhaps a chat about how you'll let her do this but she needs to balance it out with healthy options at other times.

Or

Just tell her too much greasy food gives you spots - that'll soon put a stop to it

OP sounds like my DD1s secondary...now in S2 (second year - in Scotland)
The crap canteen, the chip van, everyone going to the supermarket and some of the children have started ordering Dominos and getting it delivered to the gates...
And they are allowed out from age 11. My only comfort is most days DD1 goes to the supermarket and it is almost a mile each way - so at least they have to walk almost 2 miles a day for lunch.
Canteen food is apparently expensive, unhealthy and horrible...
Apparently they have tried to get rid of the chip van but it keeps coming back, and there is a chip shop too some children go to.
It is a split site school - so at the end of S3 they go to the other site - in the town centre...less of a walk to all kinds of food outlets..inc a Tesco Express, chip shop etc..

Sorry also meant to say that DD1 was worse in first year than she is now...she does buy the odd sensible lunch now the novelty of being able to eat what you like has worn off...
And I think in a few years time they will have to make food choices for themselves anyway at some point (when they leave home)...
I blame myself for being too strict when she was younger for her pleasure in eating as much crap as she can now...

I used to have a buttered roll (9p) and a kwenchy cup (10p) for lunch at that age, so I could save the rest of my £1 lunch money.

well i gave dd(15) some dinner money this morning - the next thing is see is her emerging from the minimarket opposite the school clutching a jumbo sized pack of jaffa cakes and a packet of crisps

Ooh unlucky, I think I know where you are! I went there too, if so. New school soon I hope??

I don't think it's so bad as a once a week treat if the school allows it.

Yep Primal - that's the one - although new school has just been rejected by local councillors at planned site...(next to supermarket)...although there is another vote soon...
Personally I'm past worrying...DD1 is doing ok and will feel robbed if she can't go up to South Street...
(And I am not comfortable with the new site ... paying 10x the going rate per acre than the land is currently worth...)

Am I the only one who finds it surprising that eleven year olds are allowed to wander off site at lunchtime? I didn't know schools allowed that.

In the two local high schools here the only people allowed to wander anywhere are the 6th formers.

Sounds like a great idea.

The kids from our local upper school come into the supermarket where I work and buy sausage sandwiches and fried chicken. Some of the boys club together and buy a large chicken or a bacon joint and some bread and make sandwiches!

Seems intelligent to me.

only year 9 upwards are allowed to roam the streets at ds's school. when I was there 15 years ago everyone was allowed to leave the school grounds during breaktime

tbh the pizza thing wouldn't bother me, it's probably only a few slices anyway am jealous of your DD op

A couple of slices of dominos pizza once a week is not too bad considering what she could be eating. And given its enormous cost, even on special offer, they will be sharing a pizza between a few of them.

My current observations of what high school pupils eat is based solely on what I see them buying in the shopping centre/supermarket, but it seems to consist mostly of:

Pasties/sausage rolls/cakes/coke from Greggs.
Chocolate, biscuits, crisps, sweets, pasties and energy drinks or coke from the supermarket.
Sausage and chips from the chip shop.

The 'not wanting hot dinners' thread doesn't paint a great picture of school dinners either.

And yet, everyone on Mumsnet claims that every meal their DCs eat is completely healthy and balanced .