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.

hate party rings with a vengence- used to pack the b on the twilight shift in Batley whilst writing up my PhD - never before or since had to wait for the statutory 5 min loo break every 2 hours before I could go for a pee!!
however all my DS's like them so i occasionally purchase said items.

Too lazy to tpye a long winded comment, but suffice to say that I pretty much agree with Moondog.

Mine eat healthily most of the time but do have the odd biscuit, packet of crisps etc.

Out of curiosisty, can anyone justify buying "Fruit" Shoots as opposed to pure fruit Juice? I'm no angel, but would feel very guilty giving these to my kids. Or are there people who actually think they contain fruit? Do you never read ingredients lists?

Can somebody tell me all the bad news about pepparami? I want to put my child off them and my friend who sneers at my cheesestrings know!

Caterpillar have you smelt those frootshoots, the heady aroma of full on additives and colourings.

Well beat this... beetroot sandwhiches

Has anyone ever heard of being that wierd? How utterly embarrassing. My Mum made me them and the bread went soggy and purple. Absolutely disgusting.

I had many lunchtimes without any food due to mouldy break and eating half of other peoples packets of crisps.

I used to buy the biggest Cadbury's chocolate bar, plus a mars bar, plus a twix on the way home from school!

Nailpolish - for some reason I have a thing about people callling them 'eggplant' too. Look nothing like eggs what is that about?

ds's nursery banned flavoured rice-cakes, only plain will do (organic and salt-free of course)

beetroot sandwiches - that reminds me of my fil when he was younger and played football. he got a dig in the stomach and was sick - he thought he was internally bleeding until he realised what he'd had for lunch!

i just like my food and ds's food to look like food rather than a playset (aka lunchables and cheese strings). But I also hate this idea that there is kids food and adult food - ds eats what we eat in the main, even blue cheese and sushi, and when we fancy fish and chips/baked beans or similar we all have it together. I don't drink fruit shoots cos they smell like paintstripper so neither does ds. Obv there are things he doesn't get (gin, tea, coffee, wine, peanuts etc).

IIRC there was bit on that Jamie's School dinners prog where he asked a mum who was cooking turkey twizzlers what they tasted like and she had no idea - I found that horrifying, its like people think kids are like pets rather than small people

Yes, I remember that bit, meowmix - didn't she also say 'They look disgusting' or words to that effect? The implication was certainly that she wouldn't touch them with a bargepole but was quite happy to give them to her kids. Unbelievable.

I'd like to point out that eating healthily is quite a modern thing. 50 years ago kids frequently had bread (white mind you) and jam or bread and dripping (lard) for lunch. There was even a post war equivalent of mechanically recovered meat - it's called haslet. I was told by a retired butcher that at the end of the day they swept the floor then made the haslet (yeuch) so you guess what went into it! Apparently my Dad's cousin lived on jam sandwiches until he was 14!!!

scarymama, although people did eat stuff like that, i think our diets were better because there was no processed food around then. my mum grew up eating sugar sandwiches - but supplemented by the vast amounts of fresh veg they grew in their garden, a habit they continued after the lean years of WW2, thanks to rationing

I LOVE beetroot sandwiches! DS and I can eat a whole jar in one sitting!! Yum! Does great things to your poo too.

how dare you tell everyone how to feed there kids
isnt that up to us

who named you mary poppins

Haselet sandwiches, that's what we had - as an change from white bread, lettuce and salad cream.

Haselet was spicy and herby - very nice!

I love beetroot sandwiches - with or without cheese.

Wouldn't put them in alunchbox though - they hav to be eaten immediately - for sogginess reasons

PiggyDreams - Mary Poppins was all for a spoonful of sugar when you feel like it!

mmmm haslet and brawn - my mum used to make her own from pigs trotters

im not saying kids shouldnt eat healthy food
but what im saying is why does moondog think she has the right to us what to give our kids

You don't have to take any notice of her, piggy. Up to you.

Nothing wrong with the odd bit of junk

I'm sure my child eats too many sweeties. He also loves white bread, as I do - it's got calcium in it, at least.

He does eat lots of fruit and veg. I must admit, he does get the odd Fruit Shoot, Smiley Face etc - but so what?

A little of what you fancy...!

I do remember some kids - family of four - at my primary school. Their parents were being investigated by Social Services for neglect and all they got for their lunch was a couple of jam sarnies on white bread Still makes me feel sad today - that is what they got every single day. Poor little so and sos looked enviously at our (disgusting but filling) school dinners

I cannot beleive this thread is still alive.

It's only alive if you keep posting on it...

Its like big brother in a lunch box, what should go and what should stay, oooh and you should of seen that sandwich it was cut in squares not triangles, how common

Snafu, I keep lurking here cos I cant find any other thread of interest, how bad is that?