What did your child have for lunch at school?

[mudskipper]

Just checked out ms jr's 'cafeteria account' for the last week.



Think I might get him onto packed lunches. Dairy Lea dunkers and mini cheddars look a lot healthier than the fare the school is providing.

Edit: He tells me the main meal portions are tiny - hence the supplementary rubbish! Sixteen year old boys need more than a small blob of mash.

[barrydidit]

Just checked out ms jr's 'cafeteria account' for the last week.

Edit: He tells me the main meal portions are tiny - hence the supplementary rubbish! Sixteen year old boys need more than a small blob of mash.

Looks like they don't even serve them on Tuesdays and Thursdays either.

[ASB]

So his choices are the schools fault?

He does highlight part of the problem; partners son is a sprt mad 15 year old. Firstly the main meal portions are tiny. Secondly they wont serve him more than a standard meal.

His school is currently in the process of also removing all vending machines.

Its not a very joined up system really. Packed lunches are a bit impractical due to sone of the restrictiond. No cold storage etc so hes to carry it around all day. Unsurprisingly warm drink and squishy half rancid sandwiches are not too appealing.

[MarillionFan]

We gave Timmy caviar on whole wheat crackers and some left over venison.

[mudskipper]

So his choices are the schools fault?

Not at all, and we will be having words

But if the school didn't provide chocolate bars as a lunch choice, he wouldn't be buying them. Seems the opposite end of the scale to the school being discussed yesterday (in the same county). He can also buy a double espresso - fortunately he doesn't like coffee!

[d000hg]

Just checked out ms jr's 'cafeteria account' for the last week.



Think I might get him onto packed lunches. Dairy Lea dunkers and mini cheddars look a lot healthier than the fare the school is providing.

Edit: He tells me the main meal portions are tiny - hence the supplementary rubbish! Sixteen year old boys need more than a small blob of mash.

And his only options for supplementary food at the cafeteria are cake, chocolate and sugar-ridden milk drinks? Don't they sell sandwiches?

Side-thread: what do you feed him for breakfast?

[mudskipper]

Looks like they don't even serve them on Tuesdays and Thursdays either.

Hadn't noticed that!

Actually, another problem is queues - when they have other stuff to do at lunchtime, they don't have time to queue for dinner, so eat crap instead.

[OwlHoot]

Unsurprisingly warm drink and squishy half rancid sandwiches are not too appealing.

and asking for a dose of food poisoning if they contain ham or eggs etc.

[d000hg]

Packed lunches are a bit impractical due to sone of the restrictiond. No cold storage etc so hes to carry it around all day. Unsurprisingly warm drink and squishy half rancid sandwiches are not too appealing.

and asking for a dose of food poisoning if they contain ham or eggs etc.

Oh please. Pretty much everyone who works in a factory or as a tradesman or on a farm brings sandwiches or a bit of pie with them in a plastic box, paper sack or lunch pail, which are not refrigerated. Families take picnics every summer to the beach, etc.

What's wrong with a bottle of squash, a cheese sandwich and an apple? Or a flask of tea, hunk of bread and a couple of hard-boiled eggs with salt in a twist of paper?

You middle class people don't know you're born, pampered softies.

[Ticktock]

Perhaps kids today should MTFU.

I didn't have cold storage for my sandwiches when I was a kid, yet didn't spend most of my time with it coming out of both ends. I don't remember crying my little heart out because my drink was a little warm either.

He has to eat crap because he tells you the main meal portions are tiny, and you say he only gets a tiny blob of mash... Perhaps the main meal portions are actually the right size, nutritionally speaking, and he is just used to larger portions (missus)?
Do you know that he only gets a tiny blob of mash, or is this what he says? Not that I'm impying a 16 year old kid would exaggerate something to try to create an excuse for their behaviour, heaven forbid.

When I was at school I had packed lunches some years, used the canteen other years. Yes, we had to queue. Yes, that ate into the time I had available to find a bush to go smoke in. However, if I was hungry I would still queue. We had a single queue, no matter what you were buying, so once you got to the front it didn't matter whether you wanted a meal or a chocolate bar, the time taken was the same.

What is the "other stuff" he has to do at lunchtime? Homework? Should be done at home. Socialising? Can be done while queuing / eating. Smoking pot? Tell him to roll them the night before / use a bong and then he only needs the time to go smoke them.

Without knowing the facts, and being happy to moan about the kids of today, it sounds like he's just eating what he's decided he wants to eat and the only thing new is that schools now do cashless payments so you can see what they've bought instead of them being to cover it up.