Mothers buy chips to get around schools healthy eating

[Blandmum]

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?

sorry edam

i just don't get the turn this thread has taken.

Will you please leave Sebastian out of this!

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FWIW, I don't think I've disagreed with anything you've said?

I did warn you it was a posh name, Emkana!

He'll go far then!

nonononono.

not having a go at you edam

you are not the thread turner.

i came on here.

nochalantly

posted a couple of posts.

fairly lightheartedly

because altho this is a serious subject the act of smuggling chips in to your kids (anyone wonder how there was media coverage of this btw??) is not only not sustainable but is obviously a gesture.

and bam kabang.

loads of vitriol

Only if you keep him well away from chips, though.

Yeah, I know, bizarre level of aggression. No idea why it was aimed at you. Very strange.

are you being sarcastic because 'i'm a suicide bomber thread starter get me out of here'???

How do I know they not middle class? I heard them on the radio.
Why do I not think this is a harmless PR stunt? Because is it typical of what Jamie Oliver said 'reduced him to tears' while making his recent documentary. The complete aggressive refusal of certain parents to consider that the crap they feed their children INSTEAD of (not in addition to) a healthy diet containing fruit/veg/lean meat etc is literally killing their children. Healthy eating initiatives in schools all over the country are meeting this kind of resistance and it is a symptom and symbol of what is happening to the next generation of schoolchildren (who don't need very high fat diets, unlike toddlers). I don't think it's charming or quaint. It is funny yes, these awful women piling chips into their supermarket trolleys to rescue the poor starving kids, but it doesn't mean they aren't horrible.

No, not being sarcastic towards you at all. Honest!

Will be off now but only because it's bed time.

oh sorrell

it's hateful

but is it the mums that should be getting the brunt of your ire?

or the fucking multinationals spending squillions of pounds advertising junk to kids???

no mother wantonly puts her child at risk (well, very very few).

society surely is to blame for this...not 'cunts'???

surely?

good on jamie for being direct in tackling this.

but nestle deserve to be the targets imho.

Sorry, wasn't aware that social class was so easily identifiable solely by accent or a snapshot of fat, dishevelled looking women.

I know plenty of so-called middle-class parents who happily fill their children with fried and processed food at home, and with rubbish packed lunches at school. And I know because I've seen the contents of their shopping trolleys. And I'm confident that they would define themselves as middle class owing to their choices of car, clothes, home and newspaper.

Food and health education is not a class issue, and there's no concrete evidence that these appallingly stupid women are not middle class.

go sophable

you're dead right

thanks capp

I disagree that food and education aren't class issues. In England, practically everything is a class issue, whether we're aware of it or not. The fact that nearly every discussion of food/ dummies/ earrings on babies/ education on Mumsnet turns into class warfare is evidence of that.

There's no evidence that they're "appalingly stupid" either - for all we know they could have been employed by JO to get the issues back into the public consciousness.

Yes but that's a bit of a conspiracy theorist view of the world HC!

OK, so the women themselves may not be appallingly stupid, but what they're promoting is.

Can't these mums and the multinationals get a bit of ire-brunt, please?

I know, FCC!

I just wanted to make the point that this thread seems to be making rather a lot of assumptions about the 'characters' from one news item.

(But I wouldn't be surprised if Jamie was round the back of the gym handing out fivers to the pupils so they could get their portions of fish, chips and mushy peas!)

What a vitriolic and horrible thread this morphed into. I am now tempted to start feeding my own children unhealthy food through the railings of their school even though there is no adjacent cemetary. And I started off thinking "wtf are they nuts" when I read the news story.

This situation will soon be resolved if the two 'rebel' mothers also eat a daily chip diet as they will become 'caged like animals' in their own homes as their lardy arses will not fit through the doors (the one on the left gets my money). Will the children then return the courtesy of providing hot food? Or will they all have been imprisoned by getting their fat arms stuck through the bars of the oppressive fence?

edam - why do you assume I'm middle class and not working class myself? Maybe your assumption is based on the fact that I care what my children eat and despise ignorant, unintelligent women. FYI I am working class and feel entitled to call anyone anything I like. I think you have taken exception to the fact that people are having a go at those who are doing this ridiculous thing and assuming that the middle classes wouldn't let this happen. The worst fed children I've ever met were the kids of a local NHS boss - bowl of sweets for lunch and no veg. I'd call their mother a fat old scrubber too.

I don't care what class these parents are, or where they come from - they are terrifyingly ignorant morons. I've lost count of the bad messages they are teaching their kids by doing this. They are condemning their kids to an early grave but are too aggressive ("How dare some posh twat tell us what to feed our kids") and thick to care. It really is enough to make you weep for the kids.