to think this actually isnt that healthy?

[thisisnotwhoyouthink]

It may just be me (probably!!) and how I was brought up and my general aversion to 'fast' foods and deep fried foods...

DS1's new school has apparently won one of those healthy eating awards for their school meals menu. I was in the front foyer and read the menu while I was waiting (DS starts after Easter so we were there filling out paperwork etc. He will be taking a packed lunch but was just being nosey considering how much they 'big up' this award).

There are each week at least two serves of hot chips and/or wedges!

This to me, is NOT necessarily promoting healthy eating. Given what the kids probably eat at home, I think the school dinners should not have this type of food in it. Especially not twice a week.

So what are your thoughts? ( I just KNOW I am going to get flamed for this!!)

I'm with shakingmyfattybumbum - there's no "bad food", just lack of balance in what we eat.

yabu

might be oven baked and kids need carbs and some fat , mashed pots with butter could have same amount of fat

your 4 yr old knows about the healthy eating pyramid!

Sorry OP think you have issues with food

Our school really push the healthy eating and have had lots of assemblies/talks on this. He was taught about the food pyramid in reception (now Yr 2)

I get quite annoyed by it all, he is underweight and coeliac - quite frankly so long as I get some food in him that stays in him IYSWIM I'm not bothered. Helps that he is not fussy at all and will eat everything put in front of him. BUT last week he stood there and asked me if he was fat as it wasn't healthy so he didn't want to eat all of his breakfast !!!

I really feel we will be having loads more kids with anorexia/eating disorders as they grow up as more and more pressure is being piled on them.

I don't really see the problem. When I cook chips or wedges at home they are skin-on, tossed in a bit of oil and some herbs/spices and baked, and are less refined that white rice or pasta.

"My four year old knows about the healthy food pyramid and does make his own educated choices about snacks etc."

OP, do you think this is a normal thing for a 4yr old to know and think about? Am not attacking (honestly) - I am very curious about your views on this point.

School menu sounds fine to me, as someone else said, mashed potato with a little butter/whol fat milk would be just the same as baked chips and wedges really.

nothing wrong with goose fat, it's not as high in saturated fats as lard for e.g.

No school could afford to deep fry anything in goose fat - costs far too much!

wtf is a healthy food pyramid?

There was a thread a while back about schools healthy eating policies.
It was shocking the amount of people who got all het up about "unhealthy" school dinner options while packing their kids off with lunches made up of low fat, diet foods.

There is so much ignorance about nutrition. If you need to be told how to offer a decent diet or depend on a "healthy food pyramid" (what the actual fuck??) then you're probably buggered anyway.

Imo a healthy, realxed attitude to food is just as important as the food itself.

harleyd the healthy food pyramid is all the vegetables, fruit and wholegrain bread left over at the end of school lunchtime

It's like the EU butter mountain...

I love the OP's assumption that the majority of parents are brainless, lard-shovelling automatons with no clue about food or how to filter messages. Bravo, you loon.

cyteen LOL! Say what you really think

give the op a break, she's been back and admitted her error of judgement yet the name calling still continues...

sorry not name calling but angry correction of op