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.

notanotter, wait how long?

i giev more crap on a trip as you cant refigerate it

I once saw a woman on a train eat a whole chicken on her own! It was quite something. In the end I was watching with a sort of horrified facination, wondering when she would stop

LOL moondog....

Have been in tears lots today (not thro MN I hasten to add, just sheer bloody frustration at my lack of doing anything right now!!!)

You just made me laugh, and the kiddies happy for hearing me laugh

maybe I should be renamed paranoidmum, altho would be a bugger to spell when I can't remmber much right now anyhoo!!!

DS is going on his first school trip on Friday. I was prepared to be laid back about it as he eats well the rest of the time.

I just asked him what he would like in his packed up lunch and he has ordered.

Chopped up chorizo.

Olives (but not the cheap ones mummy )

Grapes (lots of)

Two oranges.

Bottle of water.

That's my boy. !!!!!!!!!!

Though I hasten to add, it could have gone the other way just as easily.

Don't you just love it when people rip out greasy food and slurp and chew away on a train. If I focus on it, listening to someone biting into an apple and sort of slurping up the juice drives me nuts, not to mention eating a sandwich where half the filing keeps hanging out...

lgj

ponce

not a response to Lady Sherlock, sorry! That was in response to the entire chicken episode.

i don't know, when i was little food was really expensive and alot of my friends were forever hungry, at least they are getting something now however crap it is.

Cod

Well you know us Catholics, if we aren't abusing children we are feeding them good food.

We are a mass of contradictions.

lmao at chicken woman!
What nationality was she?
Large?
Psycho,glad I made you laugh.
Don't mind me!

And ham boy-very funny!

Cheese strings are indeed just made from cheese/ Heaven knows what they do toit to make it taste of plastic and peel but it is just cheese.

DS2 is going on a trip tomorrow and he has a "nice ham" ham sandwich on wholemeal granary, some cubes of mature cheddar, a carton of apple juice and a packet of mini cheddars and a (possibly out of date) chocolate biscuit I found in the cupboard :o

People always comment that my kids are 'big' for their age. They were all big babies (9lb 2 oz, 10lb, 9oz and 8lb 7 oz) I eat healthily and they eat healthily, they seem a normal size to me - right size clothes for their age etc. The kids next door eat sweets, sweets and more sweets and they are small in size (5 year old same size as my 3 year old). Is there a pattern to be found here? Does sugar overload make these kids hyper and burn off more calories.

Well, for proper growth, kids need nutrients, and protein. There's not a lot of protein in coke.

I agree mostly moondog but must also leap to the defence of cheese strings. Proper, posho (even Tesco's finest) mozarella also peels and forms strings. I think cheese strings are just that type of cheese marketed as a "string" because the peeling is fun. The only thing I'd change about them is that some have colouring in (as does plenty of "normal" cheese). IMO there should be more things like cheese strings - fun but actually proper food.

did you never had coke as a child! how can you deny your child a cold pepsi

vhesestrings definately more nutritional than coke:

Protein - needed to build muscle and tissue
One Cheestrings provides 4-6 year olds with 40% of their average requirement for Protein (14.8g/day), 7-10 year olds with 26% of their average daily requirement (22.8g/day) and adults with 13% of their average daily requirement for Protein (44.4g/day).

surely everything doesn't have to be nutritional does it?

aaronsmummy - I don't think there is a correlation in the example you have given. my dd is pretty small and doesn't have a huge amount of crap in her diet (a bit, but not a lot!) She is just genetically shorter and lighter than her classmates. Because her mum and dad are!

Is a cheese string on the Worst Food In The World (according to Mumsnet wink] too??! I hadn't realised. It's only cheese isn't it? I thought the only downside was that it is expensive for what it is...

I have absolutely no problem "denying" my children soft drinks. They have no nutritional value and are very full of sugar etc.

I do think everything we eat should have some nutritional value.

I guess that you don't eat celery then NQC?

MN, the lady-on-the-train-eating-chicken (a whole one!) was probably doing Slimming World.. a whole chicken would be free on a red day. :) (Am reading thread backwards, sorry to be tedious. Have also discovered the cheese strings are indeed not the Food From Hell that it was implied they may be.. )

I don't thinke everything we eat needs to be nutritious, just very well balanced on the whiole- if they eat well for a week, I have no problem letting them have fast food (sometimes even cola ) on a saturday. not as a treat, I don't hold with fast food as a treat- as far as they know, they get a choccy biccy on a friday coz I run out of food- its me that counts it as a treat

balance, and a little bit of everything. sets you up for a liveable pattern as you get older- it doesn't amtter if you go to KFC with your mates on Friday night, if you ate OK thee rest of the week. if it's all you ate though- oh dear.

That is what I want my kids to learn. No guilt, good health.