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Mothers buy chips to get around schools healthy eating

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Blandmum · 15/09/2006 15:49

I have just heard in the radio that some mothesr have been boycoting a schools healthy food initiative.

They have been taking orders from the kids, going to the local chippy, and taking food trollys of junk food round to the children at lunch time.

Oh FFS!

Taking out of the equation those small numbers of children who have special needs issues with food, what the fuck do these women think that they are doing?

How do they think this will help the children or the school?

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katierocket · 15/09/2006 15:51

I know did you hear her quote that she blamed that Jamie Oliver for trying to get kids to eat "all that low-fat crap". Words fail me.

nailpolish · 15/09/2006 15:52

Poor children, what a fucking shame

intergalacticwalrus · 15/09/2006 15:52

Although, I am not that surprised tbh.

Lilymaid · 15/09/2006 15:52

These parents don't know any better - that is why it is so important to introduce children to decent food at school so that they don't end up on a chippy diet.

oliveoil · 15/09/2006 15:54

I am so bored with discussing healthy eating

tiring and dullsville

I lived on chips as a child

how can these women get the chips to the children, do they post them through the fence?

If so, keep the children away from the fence!

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Blandmum · 15/09/2006 15:55

The kids were being offered pasta.

PASTA! not yak butter and rutabagas!

The healthy food options today in my school school, fish and chips (todays was chip day IYSWIM), vegetable Lasagne, avocado and prawn salad. Various wraps and filled bagettes, fresh salad bar

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oliveoil · 15/09/2006 15:55

and low fat food is crap for kids, the majority anyway

unless she means that fruit and veg are low fat, in that case she is quite clearly a loon

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 15:56

Link posted in the other Jamie thread, but here it is if you missed it

nogoes · 15/09/2006 15:56

It does not surprise me. Some people are insane they really are!

At ds's birthday party recently I tried to offer a mixture of healthy food and the usual party food that I thought kids would expect and yet I had my sil complaining because I left the choccy and jam tarts in the kitchen as I was going to wait until they had some nourishment inside them. There was one 7 year old sitting moping about because she didn't like anything and her mother informed me that she only eats mcDonalds and wotsits. Poor kids don't have a chance of eating healthily with parents like these.

NomDePlume · 15/09/2006 15:57

rofl @ posting chips through the fence

oliveoil · 15/09/2006 15:58

They could have put some decent clothes on for the photoshoot

Greensleeves · 15/09/2006 15:58

LOL at all this

Psssst - shove this under your coat! Careful - it's 'ot"

What'll be next - prohibition style speakeasies in the bike sheds?

Fucking idiots.

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 15:59

What next - sink estate parents arranging emergency chip-and-blue-pop parcel drops for their poor, deprived, little darlings who are forced to eat nasty pasta and salad? It'll be like a scene out of those news reports about Darfur where they're all scrabbling for the food-packages out of the helicopter.

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 16:01

"Wotchuh mean? them's wot ah always weer, yah posho. Nowt wrong wi'it."

intergalacticwalrus · 15/09/2006 16:01

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people are. I have taught in schools where children have come to school having had crisps and chocolate for breakfast (these were infant aged kids)

I was also threatened by a dad who told me that he wouldn't have his daughter reading about "pakis and wogs" in her reading books. Fucking wanker

ScummyMummy · 15/09/2006 16:01

Is the one on the right wearing an extra long binbag?

beckybrastraps · 15/09/2006 16:03

"This is all down to that Jamie Oliver. Well I don't like him or what he stands for - he is forcing our kids to be more picky about their food."

ROFL!

Saturn74 · 15/09/2006 16:05

Perhaps it's just a very unflattering photo, but the 'Chip Women' look remarkably similar to a couple of Viz characters IIRC - or am I being unfair?

expatinscotland · 15/09/2006 16:08

Gawd, these saddos are a walking advertisement for what NOT to eat!

Maybe the campaign should start appealing to peoples' vanity, 'This is what a chip REALLY looks like!'

[runs and ducks]

Holidaymum · 15/09/2006 16:08

The man at our local chippie is doing a roaring trade at lunchtimes with the secondary school kids, he's struggling to cope! He does do ace chips though and even better fish

puddle · 15/09/2006 16:09

I wonder what their mark up is? I guarantee they are making money out of this little enterprise.

Greensleeves · 15/09/2006 16:10

I've just said that to dh - I bet they're making a killing

beckybrastraps · 15/09/2006 16:10

Keep them in school at lunchtimes.

expatinscotland · 15/09/2006 16:11

We had a 'closed campus'. Most urban US schools are.

So you couldn't leave.

So instead I just wouldn't go at all .

edam · 15/09/2006 16:11

Mad. But funny.