QWent on another school outing today.All the kids had packed lunches.Oh my giddy aunt.......

[moondog]

Someone had a half litre of what I can only assume was anti freeze.
The place was awash in Muller lite cartons and meat substitutes.

There was even a......

Must admit these threads very tiresome now. I think if it offends your sensetivities so much, I wouldn't go tbh.

I went on one this week and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the lunchboxes. I only saw three packs of crisps, everyone was chomping on fruit at some stage and there were plenty of organic fruit juice cartons!

Of course it is a "nice" school

niceglasses you're right they are very tiresome

if people are really soooo damned concerned about the state of children's nutritional health they should be making grant applications to run after-school cooking clubs or community projects to educate children and mothers who are not as enlightened or clever as them as to the best things to get for their kids and why

instead they come on here and snipe about other people

the truth is an awful lot of mothers don't know that blue things that claim to be sports drinks and good for athletes aren't the best thing for kids. I know perfectly good mums who believe that as Cheese Strings have calcium in them and as their kids drink no milk, they are at least a Good Try

and as the mother of a child that can go a whole blisteringly hot day without drinking 10ml of water or fruit juice, offered in a wonderful MN-approved positive parenting style, if she asks for a Fruit Shoot when she's out, sometimes there are times when it's the best thing to do

my mum's friend is a health visitor and she once showed a woman who couldn't cook for her family how to make a shepherd's pie. After a couple of weeks the woman's husband rang her up to ask her to come and show his wife to make something else, as he had had shepherd's pie every night for the last two weeks. She was trying to feed her family well and she was doing all that she knew in order to do so

we're not all brought up the same or have access to the same knowledge of food or food preparation

if people are not willing to try to make a difference they should refrain from trashing other mothers in order to make themselves feel good and smug

excellent post cappucino

cappuncino - I have that drinking issue as well. And it is a toughie. Neither of mine drink that much, although DD more than DS and she will certainly up her intake considerably in the hot weather. DS is really rubbish at drinking and I have to constantly nag him to drink. His water bottle comes back from school weighing the same as when it went. I stand over him and force him to finish his juice at breakfast time. I insist on buying him school milk. But sometimes I do worry that he is not getting enough. And he will definitely drink considerably more if a fruit shoot is offered.

At last Cappucinno!! I have read these threads with some interest over the last few weeks and it is really starting to turn my crank.
Yes-childrens nutrition is important but the tone of these threads is definately sniding and bitching at people not so educated or head up their own arse to provide lentil rissoles for every school trip.
I understand the importance of a healthy balanced diet for my babes and would NEVER cook convenience food for them at home (myself ofcourse!!) but a school trip is supposed to be FUN.
What harm is the occasional Fruit Shoot/scotch fucking egg going to do???????????????????
Rant over. I will now go and prepare lunch-those cheese string wrappers are SO fiddly.

"gain entry"

lol @ moondog

next time yoy go on a school trip, can i come too

Er... how do you lot know Moondog isn't prepared to "try and make a difference"? IIRC she is or was doing some work for homestart. That is exactly the sort of organisation that is trying to make a difference.

And why do you have your head up your own arse if you give your child a lentil rissole? Isn't that somewhat judgemental?

wasn't speaking about moondog particularly

I did pledge Boris that I will 'always adore moondog' some time back

My DS loves Doritos. Any one know if they are classed as crap? I havent a clue but thought they they must be better than normal crisps coz they are baked and not fried.

LOL at the thread moondog. It made me hark back fondly to Blankety Blank. Blue drinks are just wrong.

ds and i were walking home from school yesterday and he said to me ' you should have seen what x had for her lunch today.she had ham sandwich on white bread, a drink of orange juice and for pudding she had a packet of crisps, chocolate, and a packet of marshmallows'i said ' wow '( not sure what response was appropriate!) and he looked at me and said ' mummy that is so unhealthy!'
i could have hugged him! he's only 6 and my brainwashing has worked so well!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally, I have no proble with shite food in a school trip lunchbox. up to a point.
A blue drink is, quite frankly, wrong but cheese strings are Ok. They are just cheese although heaven knows what they do to it to make it peel like that and taste of plastic. A lot of fruit doesn't trave well if you have to send you child with lunch in a throwaway bag like we do. And DS1 will only eat bananas and apples, both of which deteriorate beyond the point of edibility.

It's what they eat at home everyday that's more of an issue. As long as it's balanced then a cr*p packed lunch now and then doesn't matter.

Having said that, Ilove Moondog's righteous indignation at the state of the chldren's lunchboxes. It doesn't make me feel like a cr*p parent for buying the occasional fruitshoot or cheese string, it just makes me laugh.

I wasn't insinuating that everyone who puts a lentil rissole in their childs lunchbox has their head up their own arse Caligula!!
I just get a bit fed up of all the threads appearing to insinuate that pepperami = bad parenting.
I myself have been known to pop a falafel in a lunchbox-it is the general tone which gets on my pip.

I suppose it could be argued that a blue drink is in fact less harmful than a purple drink since it only needs one colour to be added, not 2

but what's right for some people is wrong for others. Personally I think cheese strings are the devil's spawn but pepperami's acceptable esp for a disposable lunch because they don't have to be refridgerated.

But we all judge food from a different set of standards and I must admit, moondog's food posts always make me giggle.

DS went on his school trip last week

he took -

2 cheese strings
A banana
Crisps
2 cartoons of ribena
couple of biscuits

I didnt pack his lunch though. His Father did.

Aren't fruitshoots purple because of the blackcurrant though, Jan?

moondog - a prem butty is salford/north manchester speak for a luncheon meat (brand "Premium" - hence "prem") sandwich

I stupidly gave dd1 and dd2 chocolate covered raisins yesterday in the park.

Will they ever eat normal boring ones again?

Also, my 22 month old now says 'banana' and doesn't mean the ones in the fruit bowl but the illuminous squishy ones from the Co-Op sweet display.

Only partly, I think, soupy - a lot of blackcurrant drinks have beetroot colouring (E162 ) and in fact I was thinking of the deep pink colour that used to be used for raspberry flavour.

How many colours in your average orange drink I wonder...?

Foxinsox, why are cheestrings the devils spawn but pepperami OK??

Fruitshoots don't appear to have colourings in BTW. Just preservatives, sugar and sweeteners.