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.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hint of smugness, to balance the scorn of the plastic food types. After all, we are in the right, aren't we?
And it doesn't mean no treats, it just means no shite.

"doesn't mean no treats, it just means no shite"

THAT IS THE BEST LINE YET... Sums it up perfectly for me..

But it is industrial slurry

Processed meat (that stuff with the bear face ) isn't food. It's the byproduct of food.

I don't think cheese strings are that bad, aren't they just cheese in expensive packaging to get kids to eat them?

It is good to know that the children eating this stuff have "shining faces and strong bodies, exuding energy". There is hope for me and for my children then. They've just had chicken dippers for tea. And I had Minstrels... May follow up with chocolate spread on toast later.

But since when could you peel real cheese?

What's wrong with stuff that looks like cheese, smells like cheese, tastes like cheese and behaves in a cheese-like fashion? You know, like, umm... cheese?

Cheese strings are made from old car tyres dyed orange, aren't they?

I like the idea of yoghurts that don't need fridging though - don't suppose you noticed what brand they were Moondog? .

And I like Fruit Shoots...

Babybel are real food, aren't they? Both my boys are totally hooked. I realise they're hardly Interesting Cheese, but they are really mild mozza or something, right?

cheestrings - \link{http://www.goldenvale.com/health/facts.php\the facts}

my kids don't eat chessestrings, but I don't see why they have to be vilefied if tehy are in fact 100% cheese.

must be a lot worse things that could be in a alunch-box

Are your children eating the vilified items?
No?
So chill and keep your beaks out.

Fruitful,I'd like to see if your children's faces are quite as shiny in 20 years.
The resilience of youth is quite astounding.
Whether or not cheesestrings are real cheese is beside the point.

Why does food have to have some sort of twist to make it appeal?
Viz. bear shaped industrial slurry,Bob the Builder shaped extruded carbohydrates ('pasta'),children's tv characters on yoghurt pots.

I do find that weird......

i once drank a puddle doing cross country running

thats the thing moon - my daughter commented to me the other day that her freinds who survive on chips and sausage rollls are all thin with perfect skin...i told her to wait a while then look again!

More goodness in a puddle.
(All that algae.Smashing!)

acne is totaly unrelated to what you eat!

Their arses will balloon though

And we will all end up picking up the tab if these kids end up with health problems because of a crap diet.
And I can bloody moan about it because I have to teach the little cherubs when they are having a wild sugar rush!

You think one hyped up kid is bad, say after a party, try 5 kids ODed on sugar and caffiene in a class of 28, when 10 more of the kids will go along with the faff for a 'laff' {grrrrr emoticon needed)

I used to get white bread jam butties every day. And every day I threw them in the bin and shared some´of my friends' wholemeal buns with chicken and lettuce.

Needless to say, I never once gave my child white bread sandwiches. I think the main problem was the jam which makes the bread completely soggy. Just blurgh.........

I never once told my mum though so she just went on day for day making the same thing. At least dd leaves her uneaten food in the lunchbox

Fio,I know the name of a good counsellor who can talk you trough your love affair with Unlunchables.

'trough' ?????

Freudian Slip there , me thinks!

And I know, LOL at me picking up on a typo

Some one mentioned the long life yoghurts...

three of my kiddies are dairy intolerant and so in their lunch boxes they have the provamol soya desserts or yoghurts. Most of them are long life, altho you can also get alpro fresh yoghurts too, but not so easily. Does that mean that the only yoghurts that my kiddies eat are 'bad' and evil because they have no choice?

It makes it such a shame that our mothering and nurturing skills are judged on such things as what our kiddies eat maybe 20% of their time:(.

Psychomum,I hereby rename you ParanoidMum.

When I went on a school trip with ds1 a few years ago there was a new little boy in his class just arrived from the Philippines. While all the other children were getting out their sandwiches (yes, and Lunchables and Fruit Shoots) he produced a whole gammon joint (a hock maybe, with a bone) and a packet of biscuits. I was just eyeballing the other children and daring them to say anything mean but, bless them, not one did as he chewed his way through this massive joint of meat.

I went on another, more recent, trip and he just had sandwiches so I imagine he went home and said to his Mum "the other children didn't have quite the same sort of things for lunch as I did..."