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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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CJinSussex · 16/09/2006 21:46

FluffyC - If my children were at this school and were being fed by these women, who have no professional connection to the school, I would put a restraining order on them. So should the school. The mad, bad and dangerously fat should be kept away from school children - the school has a duty to protect it's pupils. Even from organic chips.

redbullsfella · 16/09/2006 23:50

HELLO JUST THINK YEAH WHAT LADYS DONE AT SCHOOL WRONG YET IS IT GETTING AWAY FROM POINT SCHOOL DINNERS BAD YEAH MY SON ASD DONT WANT GO ON ABOUT IT BECOUSE PEOPLE ON HERE SAY EXCUSE. JUST SAY I GIVE MY SON OPTION YET ENCOURGE VEG ETC HE DONT WANT THEN HEY HE EATS SOMETHING ELSE HE WANTS NOT WHAT JAMIE OLIVER SAYS TO EATI DONT BELEAVE IN TELLING MY CHILD TO FAR THE RIGHT AND WRONG ABOUT EATING. ALONG HE EATS VEG ETC ONCE TWICE WEEK BOUNUS THINK WHAT I READ ON HERE BEFORE SAD YOU TELL YOUR CHILD WHAT EAT BEFORE THEY HAVE WORDS TO SAY WHAT THEY LIKE YET WHAT I SAY NOT IMPORTANT YOUR LIFE YOUR FAMLIY

2shoes · 16/09/2006 23:53

well said

WestCountryLass · 17/09/2006 00:06

Has someone had too much Red Bull??????

bubble99 · 17/09/2006 00:11

These women feed their kids shit at home, IMO...

I'm going to get burned for that one.

If there is an issue of cost. The school needs to sort it out. A jacket spud and veg costs nowt.

I think that these women hate being told what their children should be eating by a 'soft southern shite' like Jamie Oliver.

If one of The Chuckle Brothers had told them...they would have listened.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 17/09/2006 01:11

ROFL Bubble!

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Blandmum · 17/09/2006 07:34

Redbill, but if you give kids the choice, they eat the ctap food.

I have already said, children with asd food related issues should be exempt.

But NT kids can learn to eat proper food.

For what it is worth this is what has happened with my very picky son. We worked on his food choices, but he has made more progress in school meals due to positive peer pressue. He ate the food, which was good, because his firends did.

You can only take the 'my child, I'll do what I like' line so far. When children have impacted colons because of the crap food they eat, you don't think the doctors should insetruct the parents to feel them better food? If children's behaviour is sufferenring in school, you don't think the staff should step in?

PS, punctuation is helpful, I find it very hard to read your messages.

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kittywits · 17/09/2006 08:08

One of the problems is people won't be told what to do full stop. We have nurtured a culture where it's all about people's rights and other such utter rubbish. Everyone expects to have what they want and do what they want because it's their "right". Children are spoilt by both parents and the state.
It's no surprise at all that alot of of ignorant aggressive parents are insisting on their rights to have the children eat whatever they want. Tony Blair has positively encouraged this culture and it will take decades to start getting things back to a level where society can begin to fund=ction properly.

tigermoth · 17/09/2006 08:10

If this school is really charging £3.60 for a 'healthy' meal, then that is definitely too much.

I don't know how common it is for 'outsiders' to offer food to school children. I know at my son's school (grammar school) there's a pupil who brings in wholesale boxes of sweets and sells them to children in the playground.

Also, a lot of children might have one of the healthy options for lunch, but as soon as school ends at 3.00 they head for one of the numerous chippies that line the bus routes.

If my son has any spare cash saved over from his dinner money, he will stop and get a fizzy drink or something to eat (they don't do those school meal credit cards at his school). He likes the pastas, fruit pots and sandwiches they serve at school. He also gets watched by the teachers if they happen to see him in the lunch hall, and they have been known to commment on his choice (as he is on the large side) so he will try to eat something that's 'good'.

But once out of school he has plenty of temptation and no one watching him, either teachers or me.

I assume this situation is common to many schools, so these parents offering chip shop fare to the children at lunchtime may just be bringing the inevitable rubbish meal forward by two hours.

2ManyPimms · 17/09/2006 08:32

I weep for the future, I really do.

Frizbe · 17/09/2006 08:50

SP consider Derbyshire or Notts instead then! (hijack!)

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Blandmum · 17/09/2006 09:04

tigermoth, I do sympathise with the situation yo have described. We have the same thing. As I drive into school I see the kids going to the local sweetshop to stock up on crap. Heartbraking

The way that I look at it, at least by providing a good meal at lunchtime the kids are getting some fruit and veg, protein and complex carbs as well as the shit they will eat leater.

If you like, we are returing things to the state of play I saw while growing up in the 70s. I ate far too many sweets, but I did eat 'real' food. Nowerdays we have a sizable number of kids who eat shit three times a day, with snacks in between of more shit.

Re Redbull's comments, a further thought. 80% of the parents of obese children think their kids are normal size. Should they be able to feed them what they want, with no intervention?

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redbull · 17/09/2006 09:13

excuse me MB but to say that to my dp is very out of order you have no right to say things like that, that is below the belt WTF has my dps punctuation got to do with this???

Im sorry but half of cods messages i cant understand and no one slams her for it, you have no right to say shit like that, obviously you feel in someways that my dp has made some very points why else resort to bitchyness for no reason.

I think you should apologise for it as it was way below the belt

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Blandmum · 17/09/2006 09:18

redbull, when on earth did I say your dp was 'out of order'?

I didn't

I find cod's posts hard to read

I found it very hard to understand what your dp posted, because of the lack of punctuation. I politly asked if this could change. I didn't insult him in any way. I didn't say anything hutful or rude or derogatory. I just asked if he could punctuate, as I found his posts hard to read. An for what it is worth, I know that my typos make things hard to read, but I do try to avoid them if I can. And I post corrections when they are very bad, and appologise.

Re cod, go figure, she gets away with a lot, I don't understand it either.

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Blandmum · 17/09/2006 09:19

I was not being bitchy and answered your dp's points, which I thought interesting.

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FrannyandZooey · 17/09/2006 09:20

MB has been as calm and polite as she usually is, IMO.

SueW · 17/09/2006 09:21

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redbull · 17/09/2006 09:22

im saying it is out of order what you written and i also feel it is very rude what you said their was no politeness about it at all, you have no right so say things like that to ANYONE i would never dream of saying anything like it to cod because thats cods personality, you have no right to say that to my dp

FrannyandZooey · 17/09/2006 09:24

Is this the bit you are objecting to redbull?

"punctuation is helpful, I find it very hard to read your messages. "

or something else?

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 17/09/2006 09:25

"As I drive into school I see the kids going to the local sweetshop to stock up on crap. Heartbraking "

Ok I know that this is pouring vingear on troubled waters but I did find "heart-braking" in this context a very funny and approrpriate typo.

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 17/09/2006 09:26

aaargh, did not read all rest of thread, back into cave.

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Blandmum · 17/09/2006 09:27

Ok, I wish that you would punctuate dp's partner, because when you don't, I find it hard to read what you have posted. I want to read your posts, because you have interesting things to say. If I can't read them I will miss out. It is also usual not to post all in caps either. It makes it hard to read.

Fair enough , if he doesn't want ito, fone, I'll not read the posts.

If he has dyslexia ,and can't punctuate, you and he have my unresearved appology.

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redbull · 17/09/2006 09:27

yes it is F&Z as if my dp doesnt know he can use puctuation, hes a bloke never on the internet much so hes not going to sit their and proof read what hes put and think oh maybe i should use puctuation is he.

FrannyandZooey · 17/09/2006 09:27

Where can I get some vingear Filly? It sounds lovely.

FrannyandZooey · 17/09/2006 09:30

I guess that is true redbull, your dp may not have realised punctuation makes it much easier to read what he has written. In which case MB's post lets him know that people are having trouble reading it as it stands. If you can get your message across in a way that is easy for people to read, it stands much more chance of being listened to, IMO.