Free lunch? How much is your primary school child really getting?

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Some of you may have seen reports that some primary school children in Birmingham are only getting a single chicken nugget at lunchtime:

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/birmingham-pupils-one-chicken-nugget-7795031

My 4-year-old come home weeping and hungry on Wednesday, saying he'd only had one fish finger for his lunch. But it was his first full day in reception, and he's still adjusting so I'm not about to march into his school and complain…just yet.

But I was wondering - what do your children think about the free school lunches?

He's a very tall reception and is constantly hungry, but needs to eat ASAP when he leaves school so wondering the same thing.

At our school the portions seem very small. Two fish fingers, a tablespoon of peas and a few chips, and three meatballs with the spaghetti. I need to greet DS with a banana and a sandwich to get him home intact for his actual tea.

Yup, mine just devoured two honey sandwiches on the walk home (he had his brothers' discarded ones too ). He'll probably eat a big meal at 5pm too.

Looks like I'm going to have to continue making proper meals for supper...

And we wonder why children are growing up not learning anything, or having illnesses. NUTRITION, hygiene and sanitation is what really brought down childhood illnesses and mortality rates down in the last century. These years at school are golden years for our kids development and these evil paper pushers are forcing our kids to eat unnatural manmae rubbish, laced with chemicals, thins we wouldnt give to our dogs. People says organic is expensive, but they forget before 20 years ago, everything was organic. It was affordable. I remember eating loads of fresh fruits and veggies grown in the UK. Wasnt GMO meant to make food more abundant and cheaper? I dont think so.