Calling all veterans of school dinners.....................I need the court of Mumsnet.

[LadySherlockofLGJ]

DS is going to school full time in January.He has just brought home the menu until Easter.It is on a three week rotation.Here is this weeks.

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Monday
Organic Meatballs in Gravy
or
Vegetarian Stir-Fry
Rice
Green Beans
Sweetcorn

Peaches & Custard

Tuesday

Oven Baked Fish Fingers
Cheesy Egg Flan
Fresh Mashed Potato
Baked Tomato
Homemade Coleslaw
Homemade Lemon Drizzle Sponge & Custard

Wednesday

Mediterranean Chicken Pasta
Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta
Homemade Garlic Bread
Winter Salad
Fresh Broccoli
Homemade Currant Bun with Hot Chocolate

Thursday

Roast Loin of Pork served with Gravy & Apple Sauce.
Vegetarian Ravioli
Fresh Roast Potatoes
Fresh Cabbage
Carrot Batons
Homemade Apple Pie & Custard

Friday

Jacket Potato filled with Baked Beans & Cheese or Tuna and Sweetcorn.
Baked Beans
Peas
Frozen Fruit Yoghurt

Just to clarify Blu - I don't think children should have a low fat diet either, just wouldn't want to foster and encourage too much of sweet tooth. We have puddings about once per week only.....

I think it looks a great menu. Ref the puddings, might be worth finding out if the dinner ladies serve it out - if they do, I expect they will be fairly small portions ?

At my dd's school (and the one dh cooks for - same company providing meals) they alternate starter and main course with main course and pudding. And pudding is sometimes fruit too. We are in scotland btw.

I agree with MI re stodge, kids do need a good helping of energy and a pud is better than E-number sweets.
DS told me yesterday that the pudding was creamed rice (!) which he didn't like, there were no home made (and yummy) biscuits left (always an option) so he had to have an orange....oh bless him!

My mum was always doing home baking and making traditional English puds. Consequently I was a plump child....

Hardly had any sweets etc for the record - pretty much all attributable to the home baking....

handlemecarefully - did you have 2 puds a day & how where your activity levels ? ( can I come to tea at your house - I LOVE homemade puds )

I was a bit of a chubster because my mum would indulge me with choc (no boiled sweets, instead choc as less harmful to teeth) but she never really did puddings.

I think if the children eat all their food & do at least an hour of PE (tell me schools still do this) & then have a puddingless evening meal - can't see any problems ? All GOOD food in moderation.Just make sure they clean their teeth ; - )

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I pudding a day plus perhaps a couple of fairy cakes / gingerbread that sort of thing.

Activity levels weren't great I suppose.

Not convinced that puddings and cake 'add value' as it were! (convinced that they have a propensity to make you a bit overweight though)

That should be 1 pudding per day!

I get hungry just looking at that menu!

Just wondered if anyone else had school dinner menus which they could post as I'm interested in seeing what different schools do.

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