Just been on a school trip and boy,you should have seen the crap that emerged form the lunch boxes....

[moondog]

Fruit Shoots,cheese strings,those cartons of 'meat'(sorry,industrial slurry) and cheese,weird yoghurts that don't need to be refrigerated and have a 'best before' date of 2018.
The healthiest thing was probably a plastic bread sandwich with some sort of processed chicken slice in it.

When I see their little shining faces and strong bodies,exuding energy ,and then see what they are fuelling themselves with,I want to take said cheese strings and garotte their parents.

OMG, I nearly started the exact same thread on Friday as I went on a school trip!

I was utterly amazed! Cheese strings? OMG, barftastic! Mini packs of pringles, monster munch type crisps, Aero/Mars etc, strange 'banana' milk shake, loads of fruit shoots. One child had a pack of 2 Mr Kipling cakes! Was also surprised by how many have white bread sandwiches.

Ds had wholemeal bread sandwiches with cheese, a pot of strawberries and grapes, a box of organic raisins, an apple, a yoghurt. I have to confess, he did have a chocolate biscuit too.

Agree with what others have said, I think sometimes when it's a school trip parents put more 'treats' in than they normally would. I just made his lunch as I always do but some of them don't have packed lunches so it was a bit of a novelty.

Oops, that will be me then

I agree that school trips are a bit different to normal days and so the lunch boxes may be a bit different. My ds is on a trip today and he has a bag of sweets with him which I've told him to share with his friends. I would never give him sweets in his normal packed lunch but he's having a treat today.

they are very very ordinary OO, it's all hype

We can get Bahlsen imported chocolate biscuits but nowhere near the range you would find in a run of the mill Wavy Line or Spar.

Never mind eh, mustn't grumble

Well I went on DS's school trip last week and I was actually more shocked at the sheer quantities of food that some of the 5yo's were being supplied with. One little boy had the following:

6 quarters of ham and white bread sandwiches
2 pkts crips
2 yoghurts
3 fruit shoots
1 apple
2 choc bars (breakaway and twix)

I did ask DS what he wanted with it being the school trip. He asked for "tuna with cucumber on the top and crisps". So I went to Asda and they had hardly any single packets of crips so he ended up with Seabrooks cheese and onion and I made him share with me! He had:

4 quarters of tuna & cucumber on brown bread
carrot sticks
half pack c&o crisps
2 babybels
strawberries
home made flapjack
carton of apple juice

PeachyClair, DS1's big problem is with salicylates too, which is why his lunch box is not only low on processed stuff but low on fruit and veg (sometimes mango, apple, banana but pear every day). We have to get low salicylate vegetables into him in the evenings.

my son ds1 loves dairylea triangles, and strong cheese, he doesn't like milk much at least this way he gets calcium, are dairylea triangles wrong?

F&Z - you really were hugely paranoid in the interpretation of my post. I didn't imply what you said at all....Dearie me!

Sadly I don't have more time to give an eloquent riposte - since I don't live on MN permanently...

unlike who HMC?

singersgirl and Peachyclair -what problem do your children have with salicylates? I'm just curious.
I try to give Ds healthy food most of the time but also some crap. His behaviour is good most of the time but when it's bad, he is bouncing off the walls! It's not after eating sugar or processed stuff.
sorry to butt in.

I remember those sports biscuits.

Tell me,what is a round of s'wiches?
I've never got it.
Is it two slices or four???

Well I wasn't meaning you WB. It was just a cheap dig . Ignore it I was being playground.

Anyway - must fly...............

and why do triangle sandwiches taste better than square ones?

AFAIK a round of bread is one slice. Therefore a round of sandwiches would be, by my reckoning, a sandwich made from 2 slices of bread.

Eh??
Makes no sense

When I make sandwiches, I have to ask if she wants squares or triangles.

So she says squares. No, triangles. SQUARES! TRIANGLES!!

etc etc until you position the knife in the hari kari (sp? position.

theshrimp, DS1 is AS but he has hyperactive traits too, which are often linked to violence with him, so BIBIC suggested we use the aslicylate diet, which they often recommend for ADHD kids to try, and it worked! We've only had a few bad days since, and they always but always link int o routine changes etc. Much better, but with the dairy intolerance , hard at times. We have narrowed it down somewhat, and we nowe know he can eat tomatoes in limited amounts (So i will do a spag bol but make sure I bulk up with peppers etc), apples he hates anyhow, but raisins and grapes are the worst for him- we never, ever allow him those now.

Harpsi, I think I love you.

NORT at eh triangels thign
i am so wiht oy there

peachyclair- thanks for enlightening me. Your spag bol sounds yummy!

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im a crap mum that feeds my 2 and half dd crap!! for 18 months she ate healthy home made stuff never had jars or convenience food then she got fussy and refused to eat anything except fishfingers vegetable fingers and smiley faces petit filous fromage frais grapes and farleys rusks and all she would drink was apple juice. she is less fussy now and will eat most things but only if she wants to, breakfast is usually mini weetabix with chocolate, chocolate cheerios or sugar puffs and she will have about 3 bowl fuls she will have a fromage frais and a banana as well mid morning she will have a chocolate bar i get bags or the mini things and she only wants milky ways at the moment sometimes she might have some grapes lunch is usually tuna mayo sandwich on brown malted bread wont have cheese anymore some crisps and jelly with fruit in shop bought wont eat home made in winter she will have soup out of a a tin or carton and she loves tinned pasta / ravioli / but likes to choose the characters herself this week its postman pat, for tea she eats whatever ive made usually meat or fish in sauce with potatoes and veg last night she followed that with 3 bowls of strawberries and cream that came out of a can and 6 slices of melon! other night it was chocolate cake. thats a good day other days its chocolate biscuits for breakfast and crap all day saturday it was mcdonalds and half hour later she demanded a sausage roll and gingerbread man all she would eat for evening meal is her sweetcorn then fruit she drinks fruit shoots but also ribena or apple juice insists she doesnt like water but will quite happily drink bath water usually after she has weed in it!! i let her eat what she wants not because im a bad mum but as far as i am concerned the good stuff balances out the bad and at least she is eating something! and i do it for a quiet life the tantrums are a nightmare if she doesnt get what she wants and are even worse when she gets hungry if jaffa cakes for breakfast mean i can have my coffee in peace then i will buy them by the ton!

Hopefully you are making that last one up, otherwise you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.

Jaffa cakes for breakfast???????????

Nul,that was a barking stream of conciousness.Hilarious!

HMC...