is this the worst lunch ever

[dolphin13]

I just looked after 2 children for the day. They came with a packed lunch consisting of:

2 bottles fruit shoot
1 yoghurt drink
2 bags of fruit flavoured sweets
1 bag of crisps
1 cheese string
1 coco pops chocolate cereal bar
2 ritz crackers
1 penguin bar
Bottle pepsi

They were on an inset day but this is what they take to school each day. My youngest threw a major paddy when presented with her wholemeal ham roll, fromaige frais and melon slices. I know my lunches are forever going to be compared now to the heavenly lunch these children were allowed. I will never hear the last of it.

Ahem, I'm generous, but not that generous.
I'm also a shit typer.
£1.50. 1.50
Not £150. If I had that much, I'd be buying a fancy handbag something healthy for DD

My lunch the other day was a packet of mini cheddars, a packet of jaffa cakes and a bottle of Dr Pepper. Today's was 2 slices of toast and half a bottle of 7Up.

I do make sure the girls eat properly though, even if I sometimes exist on utter crap myself. Mind you, my cooking is atrocious, the junk usually tastes better. I've never understood food as enjoyment - to me it is, at best, fuel, and at worst a total chore. Trying very hard not to pass on my screwed up attitude to my daughters.

Have you seen how much fat is in a pasty? Doubt it is much better than biscuits, choc and crisps.

Oh don't split hairs, for heaven's sake Tortoise. A pasty contains meat and vegetables. It is more like a meal than biscuits and crisps. I said it was not ideal. Why the need to have the last word? I am extremely well clued up on nutrition, thanks.

Bloody hell.

When DD needs a packed lunch, she gets a ham and cheese filled roll (no butter, but a few cherry tomatoes), a banana, two quite boring biscuits and a bottle of water.

What on earth is wrong with Cornish pasties? They are a long-standing lunch food, surely (admittedly for miners rather than school children, but still...).

bibbitybobbityhat No need to have a go. I wasn't 'having the last word'
This is why i lurk more than post lately.

Cornish pasties are very high in fat, and I'm guessing ones that appear in lunch boxes now, are not home made, so have all types of nasties.

I have no problem with said nasties occasionally but just a pasty? No fruit, or veg, or anything else to go with it?

I think that's the problem, the same as any high fat/low veg meal.

good grief
get a life

Are you being serious?

What's wrong with having a knowledge of good and bad foods and taking an interest in what your child eats?

That's what I do, and I'm quite happy for cornish pasties, and sausage rolls to be included in my DD's diet.

I really do think it's important to have a balanced diet though, so I watch what DD eats, and me too.

I think it's so important that children learn to eat well, and cook too.
Perhaps it means to you that I have no life, but to me it's really important, and something I value.

We have a boy from Iran in my nursery. He brings the worst dinners I have ever seen. Left over chinese and indian meals, a Mcdonalds burger with no bread, a cold spicy fish soup etc.

I eventually tried to explain to her a sandwich would be better so next day she bought 2 slices of cold toasted bread filled with some unrecognisable meat and walnuts with a full packet of biscuits, can of shandy and a yoghurt tipped into a sandwich bag!!!

I hate the idea of the food police but some people really do need it!!!

Yes, because McDonalds and takeaway is "foreign muck"

Why no butter Bonsoir? It's got lots of vitamin A, you know. It's fine for kids.

runnybottom, I think it was more the case of leftover take out meals, then the foreigness of it. Plus I think we can all agree that a McDonald's burger or shandy are not healthy choices.

Leftover indian meals could just as easily be home made, as is the spicy soup she's bitching about. Where does it say takeaway? But what about the "unrecognisable meat and nuts" comment?

should lunchbox meals be allowed?

if they were just heated up a bit those iranian packed lunches sound a lot nicer than the OPs 'lunch of snacks'

hmm, perhaps

I've said many times that I can see why lunch box policies are necessary, and they are.

I insist DD has school dinners so I don't get nagged about monster munch/dairylea dunkers/pepperami etc.

Yes, school dinners have cake and custard, but over a week they are fairly balanced, that isn't guaranteed with a packed lunch, and it can be dearer if you go for the brand names, and when I let DD have them, she wanted the brand names to be like her friends, and she didn't want veg sticks, or wraps, or huomous, or fruit, or etc, etc.
She wanted brand name crap, to be like her friends, and it was more than I could afford.

School dinners are better and cheaper when you take everything into account.

winnybella - because she really doesn't need it! Like all French children, she is overloaded with produits laitiers!

Fair point toccatanfudge! I did say I wasn't very experienced, and was probably just lucky with the kids I was given. Was just surprised their parents seemed to have barely tried, and now it seems even more of a waste if they were that comparatively easy to convince!

Are they? DS gets a yoghurt/fromage frais and a slice of cheese in cantine every day, I think.Other than that he'll have milk with his cereal in the morning.I have never really pondered average French kids' menu.

Hmm too many exclamation marks.

Note to self: eat less sugar at lunchtime.

the case in the OP is an extreme, but it is the children who are being fed like that DAY IN DAY OUT who need the "nanny state" approach to help them out.

• because despite all the advertising/nursery giving advcie/banning certain items from lunch boxes,these kids NEED the help - or they will be dying in their 20s from heart disease, morbid obesity, diabetes.

who wants that for their kids? some parents genuinley think they are being KIND giving them TREATS - its extremely sad

PS - nowt wrong with a pasty or sausage roll now and then - might be very fatty and not very good quality meat etc, but with a salad, or 2 bits of fresh fruit its not a bad lunch - better than all the sugar in the OPs example