To be pissed off with DS for school lunch choices?

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DS in is year 7. I logged onto the school payment system today and saw what he's been choosing for lunch. Half the time he's just had a milkshake and a cake. I feel p'd off with him. He's been bought up to know better and to understand what constitutes a balanced meal. School has several options (hot meaty meal, jacket potates, sandwich bar). He's a bit picky but no worse than most 11 year olds I would say.

Am I overreacting?

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I've effectively given up with DS's lunch, they get half an hour to buy it and eat it - he doesn't bother. A bacon sandwich and hot chocolate in the morning (the only time the dinner hall doesn't have a queue), Pringles or Oreos for lunch then homecooked tea. I just bump up the nutritional value of his tea as much as possible!
I lived on potato pie and coca cola for lunch from the local greggs style bakery for 5 years and eat pretty healthily now!

My yr 7 ds has been grabbing a bacon sandwich or toast at morning break as he says lunchtimes are a nightmare. The whole school gets 40 mins for lunch...

My ds's both say it's really difficult to get the decent meals the school says it offers, because of lunch queues and limited time, but they've both settled into making better choices now they've been at secondary a bit longer. I did tell them they could have until the end of their first half term to enjoy their new found freedom, but after that they've been allowed one treat item a week. It's usually a cake or one of those huge bottles of yazzoo milkshake, but they take in snacks and have paninis or jacket potatoes most of the time.

Your ds will be fine, don't worry.

TBH I'd say just let him get on with it and what he wants.

He's just started secondary, probably not got a lot of time, and peer pressure as well (because kids are daft like that).

He'll start eating better when he's more used to the timetable and realises he can't play footy all break when he's starving hungry. I'm porky now but this is absolutely not related to how I ate at school - which was chips and beans, if anything, I seem to remember!

So long as you're supplying a decent breakfast and dinner I can't really see the problem.

I really wouldn't be too concerned! I was in school during the turkey twizzler era...

I used to buy 10 fags and a 12p bowl of custard

I don't think it'll have any baring on what he eats when he's older to be honest.

I used to have a chocolate bar and a can of coke at high school because I didn't want to go to the dining room and waste all my break.

Then I used to go home and cook my own healthy tea.

Dd has a panini, tray bake and juice every day despite there being a wide range of choice. I think it is because she was overwhelmed at the choice at first so chose something she knew she liked and now, because she's usually in a rush at lunch, just grabs the same thing. At least it is slightly healthy (clutching at straws) but I have also said she ends to start trying so etching different

You are overreacting.
Feed him proper foods at home and a piece of cake on lunchtime won't do any harm.

It used to be considered 'sad' to eat in the canteen when I was at school. I mainly had sausage rolls, when I was a bit older it went on fags!