school diners

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QUick question . Am I right in assuming that in general children can choose what they want and eat as much/little of it as they like? Does anyone encourage them to eat their veg? Do they get pudding even if they have eaten nothing?

I posted about this yesterday.

I found that with ds who was just 4 starting reception. they had 'healthy' menus and you could choose something from A (which was fish pie or roast beef etc) something from B (potatoes, pasta etc) and 2 things from c (veg) anyway. Good on paper but not followed through and ds would have crusty bread, spag hoops (classed as a veg ) potatoes all followed by a jelly. Not his fault he was choosing what he liked. But just shows unless it is enforced more to have a choice from A B C etc everyone can just ignore it anyway.

Depends on the school, I imagine.
DD school lets them choose what they like of the entire selection. DD chooses no veg and a huge pudding.