jamie oliver/school dinners

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And they do get fish fingers occasionally.

Went to stay with a friend the other day and she gave them chicken fingers (by the fish finger people) - god they stank. Vile. Both kids ate them though - blearghh.

My kids often refuse non home-made food and they will call it junk too... which makes me blush.... but hey let's call it what it is ! If you can't take it, don't serve it LOL

Mind you people can be too precious about some things. frozen veg are just as good for you a fresh, and better than some. Tinned tomatoes are packed full of vitamins. My children also eat good quality breast meat dippers and eat them with a large plate of mixed veg with brown bread and butter.

I don't think that the concern is for kids who have the odd 'bad' meal. More the large numbers of children eat nothing other than crap, don't understand that fruit and veg are vital for good health and have no idea how to feed themselved healthily on a low income or any income, for that matter

Because parents are lazy imo. Not the schools fault although they could do better.

Agree that schools can improve but the trouble come when yu give kids a choice and if they have only ever eaten crap, the crap is what they will go for. And if you don't serve it, they will go to the chippy, or as happened with the Jamie thing, feed the kids crap through the school wire!

Dis anyone see the program where they fed kids and their families on the wartime ration? All the kids lost fat and gained lean body mass. One mopther lost 2.5 stone and was in tears of joy. But the clincher was that they had it at home and in school

What on earth were those parents who smuggled shite through the wire thinking of?

I'm honestly mystified - could someone please tell me what is going on in their heads?

Why would they think this was a good thing to do? I can only imagine that they think it's better that their kids eat shite than that they're hungry - that's the kindest interpretation of such behaviour. But OMG, if schools are going to change school dinners and kids' eating habits,, then they've got a hell of a lot of educating of parents to do.

My dd is very good and eats lots of fresh veg, pasta etc, ds is harder as he has food issues (asd) but I try my best. They both drink water with meals. They still get their share of biscuits and cakes though!

From what I've seen dd's school doesn't seem to have a bad menu although she takes sandwiches so it doesn't affect her. Ds goes to a special school and I have to keep gritting my teeth when his home-school book says "went to Macdonald's today". We've never taken him there in his life! He had the chance to go on a residential school trip and we were lent a video of last year's to help us decide as it was quite expensive (1:1 care). Quite apart from the fact that we feel he is too young to go, dh and I were both appalled by the diet provided. The video showed the children eating in the house and in restaurants and they had burgers or chicken nuggets and chips every day. Makes me glad ds takes a lunch box to school.

Caligula....fresh air was what was going through the parents heads!

Sorry, took me so long to post I didn't notice you were talking about something else!

Agree about some parents being clueless. I once sat on a bus and saw a toddler eating a squished up cheeseburger. When she finished and started whining her mum said "I'll get you another one in a minute".

My sil used to work for social services in a facility that arranged supervised visits for parents who's children were in care. They often had to teach the parents how to lay with the children as they had no clue themselves. One mother asked sil to fill the babies bottle and the inside of it was blue with mould (the baby was the only child not (yet) in care for neglect). The baby was weaned on crisps. I wasn't that the parents were willfully neglectful, they just didn't have a clue.

On those chicken finger things. I saw Gordon Ramsey on a tv show where he cut one open, squeezed it and all this grease came out. It made me quite queasy, he then showed how to make them from scratch.

But then again, when my dst start going to parties I will expect them to eat cakes and stuff. That is what parties are for as they don't get party food at home as a rule!