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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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Saturn74 · 16/09/2006 13:10

Was thinking that these women would get more profit from sarnies - they could set up and sell before school starts, cover lunchtime, then stay until after school closes.

Scrape off the mould and your stock could last for days.

Just seems a much better business plan to me.

I bet they'd have a bloomin' 'business start up grant' by the end of the week.

They'd also be a dead cert for 'Dragon's Den' by Christmas.

rustybear · 16/09/2006 13:15

Do the organic chips come with organic salt? That one always makes me laugh when I see it in the supermarket. Presumably it means without any chemical additives, but it still makes me thnk they've changed the laws of chemistry

UnquietDad · 16/09/2006 13:17

Peter Jones: "And what's your predicted Year Three turnover?"

Rotherham Mum One: "We don't sell no turnovers. It's sandwiches, like."

Richard Farley: (waving pen) "Could I just ask, how have you protected this company?"

Rotherham Mum Two: "We got one of them, wotsit, tarpaulins, like, goes ovver't stuff to keep it dry."

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 13:20

I know, rusty. There's one in sainsburys which is certified by the soil association. I mean, HOW?

Saturn74 · 16/09/2006 13:21

.. Duncan nibbling the stock whilst Theo shakes his head sadly in the background.

2shoes · 16/09/2006 13:21

what I want to know(sorry If it has already been covered on here but I am w/c so can't read very well)but are those woman making money out of it.

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 13:26

I think we ALL want to know that, 2shoes.

That is without doubt the big question

though their bin liner suggests otherwise

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 13:27

oh i've got to stop laughing at this.

UnquietDad · 16/09/2006 13:27

I don't believe they are. Have some tomato ketchup to go with that chip on your shoulder.

2shoes · 16/09/2006 13:28

i think they must be. I mean who would go to all that trouble doesn't make sense
My ds id very fussy but i would send in a packed lunch or he would find something on the menu..i mean he wouldn't starve they are only there how long?

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 13:34

organic, homemade, ketchup i take it?

UnquietDad · 16/09/2006 13:36

I think they are doing it out of their zealous determination to ensure all children get enough lard in their diet, and their dedication to fighting what they see as the cause of the Evil Oliver and his campaign to turn all children into salad-nibbling, low-fat-yoghurt-eating, muesli-crunching Guardian readers.

Or maybe one of them has a boyfriend who runs a chippy.

southeastastra · 16/09/2006 13:42

haha more like your last point unq

batters · 16/09/2006 14:15

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FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 14:19

I am NOT laughing at organic chips, batters.

Am EATING organic chips as we speak, handgrown on my own (ly dp's) allotment.

And if I wanted to I would MAKE organic tomato ketchup with the sweat of my bare hands, and some tomato and vinegar and mace.

So.

I challenge you to a food fascism fight.

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Blandmum · 16/09/2006 14:20

Buy only throwing organic tomatoes girls, OK?

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batters · 16/09/2006 14:34

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FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 14:34

quite like this

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 14:34

ah

wrong thread

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 16/09/2006 14:35

the great frootshoot debate?

WTF do I always miss the good ones?

Link?

redbull · 16/09/2006 16:06

hi i red bull dp she has told me about this thread about food, fruit shoots etc i read today in national paper about jamie oliver putting down mums that are buying so called junk food for there kids at dinner time.This so called chef what right he have to say what our kids eat as my son as asd texture and taste sensetive to him NO one tells my son what he can and cannot eat it is hard enouhgh for our kids to understand the world today yet do we lol grin.Yet this thing about food what a joke heard on radio today children young as ten selling drugs in schools so i know i prefer my son to have hamburger fries etc then a E etc.so prioty is right then diet first then real problems later.

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Blandmum · 16/09/2006 16:18

redbulls dp (sorry to be so formal)

I started the thread, and in the very first posting wrote
'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? '

I fully understand the needs of children with sn.

However I also teach NT kids who are bouncing off the walls full of shit food an additives. One kid where I wrok was suspended for an attack on another child after drinking 3 cans of redbull in school.

Sadly , this is an issue that goes beyond the desires of the family.

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Blandmum · 16/09/2006 16:30

Thinking about it futher.

I work in a school with quite a few children with a diagnosis of ASD....50 out of 1300. We are seen by the LEA as doing quite well with children with this particular SN (I disagree, and feel we could do much better, but that is a different issue)

So most of the kids in our school wouldn't be expected to have issues with food texture etc. I honestly feel that the children with SN could easily be exempted from the food changes if the school had half a mind to do it. the rest of the children would almost certainly behave better and this would help the children with ASD, since classrooms would be calmer, better behaved, quieter....all better for a child with ASD.

I don;'t think that these women are helping anyone, they just don't want to be told that they feed their (statisticaly likely) NT children crap, and could change of they wanted to. None of them have mentioned their children having food issues/allergies. they just feel that children have the 'right to choose'

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redbull · 16/09/2006 17:28

sorry message before you say small number of children with sn have food issues yet last message you say school you work have 50 asd kids.Think how many schools have asd kids then there so many other things apart from food that contribute to this condition yet make special needs exempt from meals why treat someone differnt sure what they choose is there choice it is not sn children that disturb or disrupt classes its knowledge of asd etc from mainstrem schools of asd there fault not look goverment spend money on asylem seekers art etc yet want close special schools yet still say priory wrong real issues first then diets .

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Blandmum · 16/09/2006 17:39

Why treat someone differently?

Because they have special needs. It isn't being patronising, it is trying to help.

If a child has poor vision, I would print things in large print. the other kids don't need that provision.

NT kids can learn to eat new foods, children with asd often cannot.

I don't think that 50 children is small...as in insignificant....I mean that they are the minority in the school.

the majority could cope with the better food

I think that the closure of special schools is an utter disgrage and have posted about it many, many times on MN

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