School dinners - please sir can I have some more!!!!

[dickymint]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0w6wpe848o


When I were a lad ....... You ate what was on the plate including the bread and butter or you didn't get any pudding. If you ate the lot you'd get a gold star on the chart and 25 gold stars gave you a thrupeny voucher for the tuck shop

[bitchstewie]

I believe School Dinners used to be much more calorific than they are now.

Honestly look at some school dinners around the world and our just look like utter dogst.

https://medium.com/yaylunch/15-school-lunches-from...

[miniman]

bhstewie said:

Honestly look at some school dinners pretty much anything at all around the world and our just look like utter dogst.

[Vanden Saab]

bhstewie said:

I believe School Dinners used to be much more calorific than they are now.

Honestly look at some school dinners around the world and our just look like utter dogst.

https://medium.com/yaylunch/15-school-lunches-from...

Sausage, beans, jacket potato and corn on the cob is dogst?

[Sheets Tabuer]

That looks like gourmet style compared to my daughters school, 2.80 for a jacket spud the size of an egg and a spoonful of beans, she takes a packed lunch now.

[Tankrizzo]

It's well known we feed our kids like st in school, there's no defending it. All about the bottom line.

[bitchstewie]

Tankrizzo said:

It's well known we feed our kids like st in school, there's no defending it.

Oh I think there is for this lot

[Mr Penguin]

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/mar/30/...

Another comparison but it's from the Blair years and it explains how they are run and how the menus are developed. Has Britain ever done them well? Looking at pictures of them over the years I think not.

[Countdown]

IIRC the nutritional quality of school meals improved after Jamie Oliver spoke out about Turkey twizzlers.

The problem is that the students can pay £2.80 for a healthy meal or they can go down to the chippy and get a portion of chips for the same amount of money. Guess which most of them prefer

[bloomen]

I remember being so disgusted with my first school meal it was packed lunches for the entirety of the rest of my schooling.

The one thing I was partial to from the canteen was the 'st slab' which I hope was chocolatey in principle. You had to pay for that.

[Silvanus]

Vanden Saab said:

bhstewie said:

I believe School Dinners used to be much more calorific than they are now.

Honestly look at some school dinners around the world and our just look like utter dogst.

https://medium.com/yaylunch/15-school-lunches-from...

Sausage, beans, jacket potato and corn on the cob is dogst?

Yes it is, compared to what kids get in some countries. I've seen school dinners in a lot of schools and most are average if you are lucky.

[Murph7355]

bhstewie said:

I believe School Dinners used to be much more calorific than they are now.

Honestly look at some school dinners around the world and our just look like utter dogst.

https://medium.com/yaylunch/15-school-lunches-from...

Case closed

[dickymint]

Murph7355 said:

bhstewie said:

I believe School Dinners used to be much more calorific than they are now.

Honestly look at some school dinners around the world and our just look like utter dogst.

https://medium.com/yaylunch/15-school-lunches-from...

Case closed

You really think that’s a typical uk school dinner?

[rodericb]

I do not live in the UK and this is what I believe is a school dinner there:

[Mobile Chicane]

My school dinners - 1970s - were absolutely delicious and far superior to anything I got at home since neither of my parents could cook.

All fresh, cooked on-site, from scratch, by 'dinner ladies' who absolutely knew their stuff. Roast dinner at least once a week, pies, hotpots, proper puddings.

We sat down to eat, with our teachers. Learned table manners, with proper crockery and cutlery - for those who didn't know. State skool this was.

Outsourcing school meals to the cheapest providers who merely heated up shiiite processed food served on prison trays is where it all started to go wrong, in my opinion.

[Ridgemont]

Mobile Chicane said:

My school dinners - 1970s - were absolutely delicious and far superior to anything I got at home since neither of my parents could cook.

All fresh, cooked on-site, from scratch, by 'dinner ladies' who absolutely knew their stuff. Roast dinner at least once a week, pies, hotpots, proper puddings.

Generally would concur bar one exception.

Chicken fking ‘supreme’.

Awful awful stuff.

[bloomen]

My main memory of school meals was Mrs Jeffrey serving water.

Her technique was to cloak each pupil's head with her bosoms while pouring, giving everyone a set of temporary earmuffs.

I'd be dead interested to know where the best institutional food is served these days.

When you look at food budgets for stuff like the military it's pretty shocking. And I'll bet funding hasn't risen to meet food costs.

[wyson]

It’s the NHS too, any public service, food is one of the things they cut to the bone.

I get up early to cook for my kids. Just don’t want them to eat ready meals, costed down to the bone, every day at school.

I’m trying to cut their consumption of UPF’s to a minimum and set them up with good eating habits as they grow. I often try to involve them in the cooking, stirring sauces, chatting about recipes, asking them about their preferences etc., so food isn’t something out of a packet, plonked down in front of them.

Edited by wyson on Tuesday 30th April 05:37

[cliffords]

My daughter is in Hospital right now and for the last 10 days or so .
The food is utterly unbelievable. I just can't understand why no nutritional value, vegetables or fruit is provided. We are taking her stuff in .

Yesterday example. Breakfast, white toast margarine and jam. Lunch two suspect sausages and two boiled potatoes, no vegetables at all. Dinner Pasta bake with cheese, no salad or vegetables.

I am amazed Thet have no clue

[Murph7355]

dickymint said:

You really think that’s a typical uk school dinner?

No. I was being sarcastic.

School dinners is another of those political landmines that nobody is allowed to question. Especially with some posters on here. Hence there will never, ever be effective solutions on it.

I am sure there are some kids in this country who have massive problems with malnutrition. I'm far less convinced that is the fault of school dinners or even UK Govts present and past (way past).

That that link seems to convince some people might suggest they were subject to malnutrition (or adhd) themselves.