Jamie's School Dinners - Page 3

-pixie · 27-03-2005, 05:58

If you don't offer junk food as a choice, a child has not got the choice to eat junk. My 16 month old lad loves fresh fruit and veg. He wouldn't know what a Happy Meal is because I have never taken him to McDonalds - even I don't eat there. Its not a treat for kids really when you look at the amount of fat and the unhygenic way things are cooked there.
I intend to start early on encouraging him to eat healthily as I don't want to have him turn six and be dragging him off to weight watchers. He has treats in the form of chocolate etc but they are in moderation. I see kids that expect a bar of chocolate bought for them every time they leave the house and its disgusting.

wayneyboy1942 · 27-03-2005, 11:48

I've sighned it purplelass, I think kids should get a proper meal at school,it could be the only cooked meal they get!

Is it alright for me to put it on Burnley web? as I know people may want to sighn up on there as well?

PurpleLass · 27-03-2005, 12:31

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Originally Posted by wayneyboy1942

Is it alright for me to put it on Burnley web? as I know people may want to sign up on there as well?

Yes, of course it's all right, spread the word please. And actually you've made a good point about it being the only good meal that kids have in a day. Earlier in the thread we digressed a bit about the food that kids get at home and how responsible parents do try to feed their kids less junk these days (talking about you here Jason). Some kids aren't lucky enough to have home cooked meals every evening so it's even more important to get school lunches right. Thanks for your help wayneyboy1942

chav1 · 27-03-2005, 12:36

there was a film released a short while ago called supersize me about a man who eats nothing but mcdonalds for 1 month

if people who feed their kids mcdonalds constantly watched this movie and what it did to this at first top shape in health man they would probably never go mcdonalds again

PurpleLass · 27-03-2005, 12:42

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Originally Posted by chav1

there was a film released a short while ago called supersize me about a man who eats nothing but mcdonalds for 1 month

if people who feed their kids mcdonalds constantly watched this movie and what it did to this at first top shape in health man they would probably never go mcdonalds again

I agree, although I'm not against junk food per se. I frequent McDs and KFC myself. The guy who did supersize me had a very restricted diet for a month - if someone was to eat only carrots for a month they'd probably turn orange so it wasn't particularly fair film. Everything is ok in moderation. The issue is that some kids don't get the balance and that's because they eat junk at home and then the same at school. We can't influence what parents feed their kids at home but we can influence what they're fed at school.

chav1 · 27-03-2005, 12:52

but like he said in the film there are people who only eat mcdonalds or mcdonalds and other fast food

they also popinted out that the new mcdonalds healthy options were worse than the bugers lol

if it wasnt true the film would have not have been allowed or at the very least he would have been sued

all that happened was that mcdonalds no longer do the supersize meals i gues it was damage limitation by mcdonalds

i also eat mcdonalds but not very often , i would say 2 bacon cheese burgers every 3 weeks or so

grannyclaret · 27-03-2005, 12:53

signed and delivered

park381 · 27-03-2005, 13:22

Yep, signed.

On the subject of school dinners, I think cut backs in budgets and staffing levels have played a great part in the quality of meals on offer. Old days there was alway delivery of fresh produce to the school kitchens, but now most of it is frozen, and the kitchens use regen ovens.
With the sec/high schools I think local chippys do very well at lunch time, they do in ossy anyway, always full.

jason · 27-03-2005, 13:27

I will also post the link on Max and Paddy as well............I never take the kids to mac d's more than once every 1-2 weeks,My menu earlier in this thread was just what my kids normally eat.
You cant stop them eating what they want when they get older,if they want to sneak off to mac d's when they go down town with their mates then they will do it,i did when i was 13-14.
We need to install about healthy eating from an early age like pixie said earlier.
I do mac d's as a treat for when they have been good,they at least deserve something different than dads cooking!
lol

Sara · 27-03-2005, 14:37

Have signed it too.

My daughter goes to Mount Carmel and only has a school dinner once a week. The rest of the time she has packed lunch. The reason why she only has a school dinner once a week is because on that particular day they get to go into the dining room first, therefore they have a good choice. The rest of the tweek by the time they get to go in, there is only junk and rubbish left.

wayneyboy1942 · 27-03-2005, 16:33

I've put the link on Burnley web purplelass,I hope it does some good! kids if you don't want a body like mine eat your greens!!!

lindsay ormerod · 27-03-2005, 17:02

Peel Park have the "Hotpot"menu too;I think it's a county council thing.My daughter quite liked most of choices but got bored and is now back on packed lunches.The good thing about them is the dining room staff make the kids put everything back in their lunch box so you can see what they have eaten or not!School dinners have just gone up as well;now £8 a week.