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.

funny though

Well my LO had a piece of cake in her lunchbox today ... shoot me now!

I don't see what difference it makes so long as this is not the only thing that they are eating. I had a small chocolate bar and packet of crisps almost every day I went to school .. I'm not fat or unhealthy as I ate a well balanced diet & did lots of exercise & am encouraging my LO to do the same.

blondilocks read the thread

no-one is criticising things in moderation, even Moondog likes coke on a special occasion

beats the hell out of smugjuice

Bil,I may shoot you for missing the point,not giving cake.
{patient sigh}

Not going to call anyone smug, and I also generally avoid processed food opting for healthier options in dd's packed lunch (for Pre School lunch club, bless), but what I don't get is the total and complete over preoccupation with food and nutrition on this site.

Yes it's important to instill healthy eating into our children, but the way some of you bang on about it , you would think it was the central tenet of good parenting rather than just one teeny weeny facet

Not talking about small pieces of cake or occasional choc or crisps.

Am talking about children whose diet consists of choc breakfast cereal, squash or fizzy all day long, lunchabley type snacks and processed shit dinners.

Of course, nobody on MN will admit these children exist.

Moderation's fine.

nothing wrong with tupperware except one where on earth do you buy it these days and we are always told carrier bag and only packaging that can be thrown away. Think i'm going to have to start thread on what constitutes healthy lunch box, my 12 & 13 yr old make their own and i try and make sure they take fruit but you never know whether they are eating it or not. As for my three yr old the only fruit she will eat is a bannana and in the last two weeks apple if it is cut up, she won't touch raw veg and the only filling she will eat in sanwich is laughing cheese (cheese triangles)

Believe me as a baby she ate absolutely everything but now she wont touch lots of things - so when she takes lunch to playgroup it usually consists of cheese spread sandwich, skips, fromage frais, raisens and very weak robinsons juice, sometimes a chocolate biscuits.

Would welcome some suggestions of what else i could give her though.

It's all in the sandwich and the fruit or vet sticks IMO. You pack a proper sandwich and fruit/veg. that will not bruise on a day trip. Then you add a few extras for the fitting in with classmated aspect - some not so healthy, but there you go. I am not perfect so there!

But you make sure there are NOT enough of the unhealty extras to fill up your child, so they are hungry enough to eat the sandwich and fruit.

But all that goes to pot if the teachers allow the children to use their gift shop pocket money on buying sweets and ice creams . I gave my son (12 years) £8.00 pocket money for a school trip to London Zoo to buy something special. He spent it all on ice creams and fizzy drinks.

I was both with him and the teachers for lettting the children spend their money like this.

hmc,I don't see it as a 'teeny weeny facet'
Not at all.

It is probably in my top three parenting aspirations.

I'm going to post a quote now (could I get any more smug?!)

All people are made alike. They are made of bones, and flesh, and dinners. Only the dinners are different. Gertrude Cheney, 1927

HMC food affects behaviour, health their growth and their energy levels
i could go on but its late and ive watched so much football in the last week i can see gary linekers face when i close my eyes

Is he eating crisps, wb?

I don't feel smug because I feed my child well. I just feed her to the best of my ability and other parents feed their children to the best of their abilities. It's just that I happen to be a chef that has studied nutrition so I am sufficiently educated to know that my child is getting the best possible nutritional start in life. This includes occasional treats but they are occasional as I know that feeding my child high fat, high salt, processed foods will prevent her from developing both mentally and physically to the best of her ability.
I'm not smug but I am absolutely positive that this is one of the most vital and important issues that gets discussed on mumsnet.

Could be worse, WB, could be Alan Hansen's face

hes very very orange i think he's made out of cheese strings

Does anyone actually know anyone who feeds their child entirely on junk? ALL the time?

I fancy Alan Hansen

Id share a glass of smug juice with him

lwtg,re suggestions on what to give her,I don't think your examples are too bad.
However my reasoning is that I have the money,I buy the food,thus they'll have what I choose to give them.

That or they go without.

that's what I don't get moondog.

Before nutrition I put things like:

*be firm, consistent and fair with my children
*ensure they reach their potential
*try not to vent my frustration on them
*instill some moral values

etc, etc

I know loads of people BIL whose kids eat crap all the time (like the parents)

Oh,the exclusive company I keep!

I'd see that as one big point hmc.
Do unto others as you would be done by yourself

HMC, by feeding them well, you ensure they reach their potential.

If I fed DS1 on shit all the time, he'd be dull-eyed, lethargic and hyper by turns. I don't, he isn't.

Me too
My lovely cousin feeds her DDs shit all the time
DD slept over there Friday night, I sent her a bag up with lots of fromage frais, bananas plums etc
Things I knew she would eat as she wont touch supernoodles or greasy food

Her DDs aged 5 and 3 were fascinated by my DDs melons and pineapples cut up in her little fairy lunchbox

the look on my face was, as the saying goes, priceless

and I would see the issue of nutrition as subsumed under one broad heading "keep my children healthy and well" (which would include all sorts of other points like regular dental check ups, up to date immunisations, exercise etc) - rather than right up there headlining as it were...

I think it's a mumsnet obsession (not trying to be awkward, too old and tired to start a fight)

I don't know anyone who feeds their child rubbish all the time.

I just think that everyone seems to be getting almost obsessed with the topic of food. Fair enough eating healthily is the best option for everyone along with taking enough exercise.