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 had absolutely horrible school dinners, policed by fascist dinner ladies, so as far as I am concerned school dinners are way better now! My two choose packed lunches. ds likes school dinners, but says they are too small. dd I think worries that she won't like them. They seem OK to me, and they are definitely cheaper and less hassle than packed lunches.

Que?

Cheap white sliced bread is often referred to as plastic bread due to the amount of processing it has been through.

DD1 also has school dinners, which she loves and I enjoy the lack of hassle. However DD2 and DS1 have packed lunch at nursery three times a week. I will not be able to afford for them all to have school dinners when they are all there, it was £52 this half term times that by three - aaaghh. I wish I could though.

Frannyetc.

"Teach your children to respect others and stand up for what they believe, instead."

Except that with a 3 year old it's actually what you believe in isn't it?

GOOD POINT

Cod agrees with me - is this a bad sign?

errr, not with my 3 yr old, he knows exactly what he thinks and it is predominantly EXACTLY the opposite of what I think!

Ooh,you lot have been busy while i have been at my step class
{virtuous emoticon]

Glass off...freaked out by your impacted colon.Is that a genteel way to say you couldn't have a crap???

Lunavix,what is a 'Humzinger'??

Lol at gibbon's penis 'Pepperami'

Snafu,you are so accurate with your comments.This stuff is indeed 'non-food food'
I admire Jamie Oliver too but I'm not sure about his promotion of 'Blue Parrot' range.
That's not real food either.

I don't buy this 'Oh it'll be in the backpack for ages so must be packaged crap' line.
What's the matter with a Tupperware container?

Still,room for a bit of crap in everyone's life.
I like a Coke every now and again.

Believe it or not.

I got as far as the rat with a fire atop and talk of lunchables as treats and I wondered why parents don't mind that they've been taken in by advertising so thoroughly that they believe it's OK to feed their children this shit.

It's not food, it's chemicals and preservatives and it does horrible things to children's behaviour. I can't believe that people have children and want the best for them, then give them this bollocks in a box for lunch, I truly can't.

If that makes me a smug fucker, so be it. Chuck us a rat, MD

I try hard to give my DSs 'treat' food within the limits of DS1's problems, and I agree I worry about his feeling 'different'. But I have decided I would rather have him feel 'different' because of his food than 'different' because of his ADHD-type behaviour (never mind the physical effect stuff has on him).
It is interesting to see how my boys' tastes have adapted over time. Tonight for supper they had noodles with red and white cabbage, leek, garlic, green beans and celery - they would never have eaten that two years ago, before The Great Elimination Diet. DS2 jumps up and down and says "Fried noodles! I love them!"

Hunker,I see this as a natural progression from the breastfeeding issue.
I sure as hell don't stop caring because I no longer make it myself.

I have (purely anecdotal) noticed that a lot of kids who eat crap seem really weedy.

What a thread

Love the way people call Moondog smug because she is horrified by the nutrition of the next generation.
If the choice was ignorant and thick or smug I know what Id rather b

Good points Franny

Threebob - either you believe your 3 year old is old enough to make his mind up about what is important - in which case go for it - or you don't, in which case you decide for him.

In either case, I want me and my family to decide what we eat, not the general public, the supermarkets, and the junk food producers and promoters.

Not adverts everywhere
Not placements using cartoons
Not celebrity endorsments

I think that people who call mothers who mind about their children's nutrition smug are jealous and actually a bit guilty that they're shovelling chemicals into their children at a rate of knots but don't actually know enough to stop and change it round.

I pity them from my big smug tree.

I am on a smug cloud next to your smug tree

if you want to keep the food fresh and cool in a lunch box freeze the water the night before or use a frozen frube as the treat - there is no excuse for DS friend who has 2 bars of choclate and a packet of crisps for his lunch - and is the most badly behaved boy in the class

We can pelt one another with quinoa in the lulls on this thread between cheez stringz and lunchables if you like?

I am going to climb the smug tree, then jump out of it and hit every branch on the way down. And hopefully land on some vacuum-packed bear-shaped mystery meat.

we mean the smug tree snafu

not the ugly tree

What's a Frube then??

I don't actually agree with banning adverts for crap.

I think people have forgotten those two little words......self control

The worst thing is seeing poor ill educated people eating shit.
It really is the opium of the masses.

It'll make a nasty squashy pink splat, Snafu - don't say I didn't warn you.

LOL I will join you up there as long as I can wave and blow kisses at HC who will be in a nearby party ring tree.

Predictable, welshy, predictable.