Child Benefit and School Meals - Page 7

jaysay · 13-03-2008, 18:02

I have to say that I don't know much about school dinners, When I went to school I never once had a school meal in all the eleven years I was there, the only thing I can say is that they never smelled that good as I remember

slinky · 13-03-2008, 18:50

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Originally Posted by joanne72_uk

I would ask exactly how nutritious school dinners actually are, I pay for my son to have school dinners and often he comes home stating he has had a sandwich or a piece of pizza and dessert the other week was HALF an Icelands double licker ice lolly (99p for 10), is that really a substantial meal or value for money, whats wrong with good old potato pie and sponge pudding and custard, good heart meals that fill them up and cost next to nothing to make.

As for using child benefit money to provide these meals, what happens during the school holidays?

I think these 'do-godders' need to get a life and stop trying to dictact what we spend our money on. If they really want to do something, have a proper look at what children are really being fed in schools and not what we are lead to believe they are receiving !!

I agree with this Joanne. I would actually challenge any school to give my boys the amount of calcium I do in their packed lunches!!

I have just prepare their boxes.....they have..

1x sandwich Youngest likes ham, eldest likes Cheese.
1x squeeze yogurt ( can't be doing with sticky spoons )

1 x cheese string
1 x tub of Fruit chunks in syrup
A fruit drink for youngest and a Milk shake for eldest.
1x tub of Jaffa cakes. ( usually come home in box )

Eldest has a very high calcium dinner .... and I'm almost sure the school couldn't match it.

And at least I can monitor what they are eating, cos I know what comes home in the box

emamum · 13-03-2008, 19:55

School dinners are good for the little ones as they hould have their big meal at lunch time to give them energy for the rest of the day.....

slinky · 13-03-2008, 19:58

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Originally Posted by emamum23

School dinners are good for the little ones as they hould have their big meal at lunch time to give them energy for the rest of the day.....

And you would call school dinners BIG?? My lads are starving by the time they get home after a school dinner. I remember they were not much bigger when I was on them, many moons ago.