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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 08:49 |
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Fact: Children up and down the country are being fed unhealthy diets at school.
Whats the best way around it. Packed lunch, or allow them to eat school diners with a view to feeding them properly when they get home?
If your option is the latter, Isnt the afternoon meal a real important one? If they eat the unhealthy school diners wont this counteract any attempt to feed them correctly in the evening?
Last edited on Sunday March 12th, 2006 08:50 by Le Moor
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 09:28 |
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| have you been speaking to jamie oliver?
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 09:54 |
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Na........Rusty Lee.
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 10:49 |
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The field that I work in I supply food to schools that is put into vending machines. There is going to be a report coming out soon saying what foods we can and cannot supply, it all has to be healthy stuff. A recommendation has been drafted and it's real strict; no foods containing rice, potatoes, chocolates etc. We don't know what the final decision will be but if we have to do that for vending machines inside schools then the cooks will certainly have to change what they serve at lunchtimes.
Also with packed lunches you have to be careful. One woman at my work place did a packed lunch for her son. She gave him drink, sandwiches, fruit and a couple chocolate biscuits. The woman got blasted by the SCHOOL for putting TWO chocolate biscuits in HER son's packed lunch. These schools ain't rampin for real. Shame they can't be that strict in the damn classrooms.
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 12:28 |
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| its not up to the school whats in the packed lunch
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 12:33 |
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My son's school have a healthy menu now, plus I'm lucky in that he likes salads, vegetables and pasta, so I'm happy enough with it.Not cheap though, at £1.50 a day.
You have to be careful with packed lunches. Some of these lunchbox foods are so full of fat and sugar. I had my son telling me that Cheese Strings were good for him, but when I checked the fat content.....wow!
Besides, I don't think it's only the food that's the problem. Kids nowadays don't ramp like we used to. Too busy playing xbox and Playstation to play British (!) Bulldog and Knock Down Ginger....
Could be down to the paedophiles in our midst - parents don't want to let their children out of their sight.
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 12:38 |
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LadyDay wrote: its not up to the school whats in the packed lunch
Packed lunch is bought onto school premises and they could argue that if they are trying to promote healthy eating it must comply with their regulations
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 12:50 |
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| Facetygal: if any school dared to chastise me about what I'd given to my children, my reply wouldn't be repeatable..they are friggin cheeky...
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 12:56 |
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| I know but at the same time I respect what the school is trying to do. Now if the school is concerned about what my child is eating I should be too.
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 13:38 |
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the school can only be concerned about what is actually being served by them to the students.
if they are promoting healthy eating they can only give good and useful information allowing parents to make an informed choice rather than a forced choice
k, you love argue to much
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Posted: Sunday March 12th, 2006 15:06 |
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LadyDay wrote: its not up to the school whats in the packed lunch
No, but many schools have a policy about choclate biscuits, my childrens school always ruled against them and crisp. However it is more to do with keeping the school clean then the childrens health.
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Posted: Monday March 13th, 2006 19:34 |
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At times schools are sending out conflicting messages telling students to eat healthily and then serving junk at break and lunch times.
In my secondary school, they complained about the behavioural problems and lack of concentration from pupils and then introduced fizzy drink vending machines in the playgroud!
There are healthy food vending machines out there, but I don't know of any schools that have them.
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Posted: Monday March 13th, 2006 21:50 |
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aurora wrote: At times schools are sending out conflicting messages telling students to eat healthily and then serving junk at break and lunch times.
In my secondary school, they complained about the behavioural problems and lack of concentration from pupils and then introduced fizzy drink vending machines in the playgroud!
There are healthy food vending machines out there, but I don't know of any schools that have them.
Why don't you ask your school why they choose a fizzy drink vending machine (bet it's full of well known brands)
Why a vending machine at all? (why not water bottles/holes)
I think you will find that the school is using the money from the machines(advertising) to pay for educational tools, maybe the company(s) in question is sponsoring sports equipment/gym.
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Posted: Tuesday March 14th, 2006 00:15 |
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| my children go to school with packed lunches. iwould not subjecct my kids to eating that guel. its not fit for human consumption
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Posted: Tuesday March 14th, 2006 08:51 |
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Tahliba wrote: aurora wrote: At times schools are sending out conflicting messages telling students to eat healthily and then serving junk at break and lunch times.
In my secondary school, they complained about the behavioural problems and lack of concentration from pupils and then introduced fizzy drink vending machines in the playgroud!
There are healthy food vending machines out there, but I don't know of any schools that have them.
Why don't you ask your school why they choose a fizzy drink vending machine (bet it's full of well known brands)
Why a vending machine at all? (why not water bottles/holes)
I think you will find that the school is using the money from the machines(advertising) to pay for educational tools, maybe the company(s) in question is sponsoring sports equipment/gym.
Yes, I should have asked. I hope they did use the money to improve the school. However, even if the school was using the money for educational tools, i think the vending machines were more negative than positive. I definitely noticed more disruption in the classroom after they were introduced as teachers spent more time trying to take drinks off students during lesson time and shouting at the hyperactive ones loaded with sugar .
They had the same vending fizzy drink machines and crisp/ chocolate machines at sixth form too and only considered the healthy food vending machines when it was brought up by members of the student council.
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Posted: Wednesday March 15th, 2006 18:39 |
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A flask of soup with nuff gungo peas in Winter. And a packed lunch. No packet food.
Problem solved.
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Posted: Friday March 24th, 2006 13:54 |
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| The food that's served at my sons school is plain nasty. If school dinners are meant to be getting more healthy then someone forgot to tell my sons school. The menu consists of smiley faces with sausage, smiley faces with fish fingers and smileys faces with smiley faces. No way is my son eating that junk. Anyhow the food is cooked and then delivered from the school next door. I would not eat anything if I wasn't sure it was cooked in a clean enviroment by clean people and I wouldn't expect my son to either. He has a healthy packed lunch and on Friday he gets chocolate and crispswith it. As my mother would say a little of what you fancy does you no harm.
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