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.

But you're still reading it, aren't you? Hehehe

This thread was getting quite boring, but piggydreams' superbly unhinged outburst has just perked the whole thing up again for me

Ah well, there you go!

Moondog sends me an email every morning telling me what to feed ds, actually... (sometimes I rebel and delete them without even looking)

I will hold your coat piggy, F&Z can mop up the blood

How would we know what to cook in the evening without moondog's daily email instructions? And to think I actually used to decide for myself

Flicked through whole thread- IMHO I just thought get a life. Yes, it's important to try and feed your kids healthy stuff. Education is the key and also finances. How many people on low income can afford to feed their kids healthy stuff all the time, bet they deny themselves stuff. Fruit is expensiver, so is proper meat and vegs. Moderation is the key. My kids are allowed coke at parties, special times, certainly not everyday. They like junk food but know it's junk food and have actually asked for junk in restaurants. There are far more important things to think about in this day and age and I do applaud people who can do "healthy" all the time. I have taken to making my own chicken nuggets (smug) because my kids like them and I feel like a good mum.My kids have all their arms and legs and are keeping them. No mines, no war, just kids who need a bit of junk and a bit of good stuff. When they are teens you have no hope of regulating their diet, look at school meals. They have a choice, what do they choose? Whatever they want and whatever they have been taught, it makes no difference because they are not babies any more, they have free choice. Kids with special diets or mums that choose for them are sometimes teased. Special diet kids have an excuse, I wouldn't put my child through bullying because of a lunch box. Fill them full of good stuff at home, let them have a (god forbid) cheese string if that;s what the other kids are eating. Children are cruel and food is a sensitive subject. My 11 yr old daughter's friend is an official anorexic now, she thought she was fat and all her friends were told, by her, that she hated her lunches because they were healthy stuff. She threw them away and no-one told. She's now just come out of hospital and has food phobia. Healthy food is better, but not always the only way. Your children are only lent to you for a while, concentrate on the whole being not just a part of them.

well said jolly
i agree with everything you said

Ooh look at me

a rose between two thorns

Why are you a rose? You have kids, you have dreams. I tell you what, my worst nightmare with mine is certaibnly not what they'll eat when they grow up. I want them to be alive, for a start, drug free, happy and hopefully with partners that love them and possibly children.

i just want my kids to happy nothing else matters
doesnt matter they want to do with there life

Agree in moderation. Food matters(and behaviour/manners) so I wouldn't just give in for an easy life. Example-tonight I cooked salmon, new pots and vegs. Didn't expect them to eat much of the vegs, negotiate for half of it eaten, but 13yr old, 7 yr old left at least half of their's because of the bones?! DD 10 ate 3/4 of hers. Pissed off because good food mummy, so no pudding, no chocolate shop bought muffins. Fruit available but major sulks and tantrums. Hard mummy stuck to her guns, proud mummy now putting kids to bed. I don't care if I'm horrible, eat it or suffer. They won't die without a chocolate muffin but they'll think twice next time about pushing round the plate and bloody moaning.

I just expect mine to eat enough, of whatever random meals I give them, to satisfy their hunger without being rude about it. It's my problem to make sure it all balances over the day, the week etc. Anyone know what will balance with the hardboiled egg, steamed broccoli and toast they had for their dinner? It was one of those days when I hadn't had time to get imaginative so it had to be quick and easy.

Haven't read the whole thread but had my own smug moment today when DS1 took seeds to School in his lunch box, he said his friends were say "Ewwww yuck" and "They are green". He just said "They are delicious" and went on eating them but this is just the type of child he is, his younger brother was b/fed for longer and weaned on similar foods as DS1 is picky as anything and seems to have a natural fear of all green foods, we are persisting.

Completely irrelevant, but I tried a cheese string for the first time today - my 17 year old cousin had brought it over from America. It was dusgusting, but as I ate, ds1, who is two months old, gazed at me with an expression of sheer wonder on his face that I have never seen before...oh dear.

Unfortunately because the majority of children do bring rubbish to my daughter's school, she has been taunted for having "weird" food. Her classmates had never seen sesame seeded bread other than on burger buns so thought I had packed her a cold burger. Even wholemeal bread raises eyebrows. She will never eat prunes again after the whole table started singing that they were nasty. After complaining to the school about this behaviour they acknowledged the problem but couldn't guarantee it wouldn't happen again. I say free hot school meals of the increasingly high calibre that is in schools for all.

If DS1 brings dried dates his classmates say they are poos.

DS's school doesn't allow sweets or crisps in lunchbox, although I'm not sure how they actually police it.....(Too scared to break the rules!)
Dob you in to Jamie Oliver maybe?

DS's school does not do cooked lunches - they have to take packed lunches. However they all have to sit down at tables and say a (non-denominational) grace before they start and the wonderful yet fearsome "Doreen" (who DS talks about in a very reverential tone)then goes round checking that everyone is eating everything in the right order. And I know for a fact that someone checks their lunch boxes every day, but mainly I think to check that everyone has actually remembered to bring some lunch in - they rustle up a quick cheese sandwich or similar for anyone who is without. (Ds is at the bottom end of the school and I think this is more aimed at the littlies than the Year 6'ers).

Re cheese strings, one of my friends who used to give them to her children said what put her off was that they used to sometimes be stuck to a plate, go through the dishwasher cycle and come out looking (and tasting - she tried) exactly the same). If you want a test as to whether any food is a good idea, I think the "does it emerge unscathed from a hot wash" test is probably as good as any.

Oh dear, the day I give my kids shite to eat so they won't be bullied by kids who are eating shite, is the day Moondog will be given permission to shoot me.

Oh the days of packed lunches when I were a nipper (misty eyed emoticon)

Luncheon meat on Warbies toastie bread (cut into 4 triangles)
Blue Riband bar
Carton of Kia Ora
Packet of sausage & tomato flavour crisps

Those were t'days

Thank heavens for food research!

Anchovy - Ugh!!!!

Do they still make sausage and tomato crisps? I haven't noticed them for years

Oh God,F&Z caught between the dadaesque ramblings of Piggydreams and Jollymum.

What a hoot!!!!

I'm glad that you have set us right on official anorexics' Jolly. Been bothering me for ages,that.