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I can't believe nothing is been done about that. 37p for a meal is disgusting. I bet more is spent on prison food...If we can afford to spend billions of pounds in Iraq surely we could do a bit better than 37p and start giving children decent food. Go Jamie Oliver!
I can't believe nothing is been done about that. 37p for a meal is disgusting. I bet more is spent on prison food...If we can afford to spend billions of pounds in Iraq surely we could do a bit better than 37p and start giving children decent food. Go Jamie Oliver!
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It is yet another reason why poor people are less healthy: kids on free dinners have to eat that slop when richer parents can afford good packed lunches, for instance.
Jamie Oliver, despite being a Mockney twat, actually seems to be a sound bloke on a lot of things.
i mainly blame the parents for poor taste buds in bringing up the kids, no harm in sweets and all, every child has had them through time, just encourage them to eat a variety
And giving schools 50p at least for every meal.
even if it's just a sandwich with 18p value bread and an apple a day, at least i'll know what they're eating. i'll grow my own chuffing veg if i have to.
If only all parents actually cared about what their kids eat.
The generation that are kids now arent going to live longer than their parents, that should be distressing to everyone in the country.
with the state of other 'food' they have, youre better off with the chips anyway
i had chips done me no harm, i eat sweets still, and i eat greasy food and i eat mcdonalds etc, however i dont overdo it, and i eat good food as well as the 'bad' foods, even tohugh theres no definate thing as a 'good food'
food nazi's piss me off nothing wrong with pigging out here and there, just dont do it constant, and remember, most kids tastebuds and suited to what their parents have brought them up on. This tend to continue, if parents introduced their kids to a variety of foods from a young age, theyd be more willing to try foods
if you saw jamies school dinners, youd see, he made them nice and healthy food, they wouldnt touch it though. Mainly cause theyve never seen it before and have been brought up eating the same foods over and over again rarely trying new food, and thus wont try it.
Cos my school dinners are great and reasonably healthy. In saying that though, it's much easier to go into town for a Burger King or Greggs than queue up with all the snotty, wingy kids. :rolleyes:
no but if you made the food something theyre not used to, they just wont eat it, theyll go chippy or something, like i did cause my school dinners were overpriced pieces of crap
not all vegetables arent nasty, theyre just brought up on badly cooked ones, i was for sure. When i started cooking for myself, i didnt boil them until there was no goodness left in them for example
chips for school dinner = fine staple food really
pasta = good too, if it aint stcky
FRESH salad = good
simple nicely cooked vegetables = nice
fruit = good
burgers, should be on there, but not the quality at my old school which was offal quality
see at my school we got lunch, and instead of it being a meal it probably paid for chips and something to go with it, so you got the most filling nice one possible. It should be you get a choice of staple food like chips, rice, pasta or jacket potato(rotate them around), with 2 choices of greens out of salad, vegetables, fruit or fruit juice and something else like say erm some meat or pizza or usual school dinner food, but not as shit quality, dont have to be amazing, just not shit! oh and as much water as you want. if that cost under £2 id encourage my kid to take it up as main thing :thumb:
Schools dont HAVE to spend 37p, thats all they get from the government, anything else has to be taken from their ordinary budget. I presume private schools do just that.
How can you say chips are fine? They have no goodness in them at all and are packed full of fat and salt.
The rest I agree with though.
did you make out the paragraph at the bottom, what do you think?
and chips actually do have nutrients, depends on how u make them and how many processing steps theyve gone through.... you can buy chips that have been made with minumum amount of salt, and well fat isnt good for you, but half a plate of chips isnt gonna kill you either, theres worse things out there...
i eat chips when i cant be bothered to cook, which is half the time but mixing it in with a good mix of food is quite good...
Yes, but do you buy the cheapest crappiest chips and then deep fry them?
School chips are the worst of the worst, yes you can make healthier chips but schools dont.
There is nothing wrong with chips, if they form part of a balanced diet. Sadly this isn't always the case.
It's also worth noting that fresh vegetables and fruit are not an expensive option, however more effort is required in their preparation. Unfortunately this sometimes puts parents off this option.
I know there is nothing wrong with them as an occasional food, but he described them as a 'staple' thats clearly not a good idea for a kid.
i went to a CoE school near glastonbury once, and there were no school meals, the only people who got meals from the school were the kids that got free meals. and they were good meals, a proper freshly made sandwich, a fruit drink, a piece of fruit, maybe a baby bell type thing and something sweet. thats not exspencive to make, nor is it unhealthy. And this wasn't in a rich community either. half the village were on benefits, it was very muti cultural, we had a huge mix of muslims, pagans, christians, i think there might have even been a jewish family.....all of this in a village of no more than 5000. the village school only had 120 pupils. and it all worked.
yes i do agree, it's mainly down to parents, but 37p isn't enough. why not give schools allotments, on which they can not only use for classes, but for growing food on too?.....
Economies of scale means that bulk purchasing will buy you more than that.
Seriously, this isn't much less than hospitals have to feed patients... all day for about £1, if I'm not mistaken.
Indeed, this sounds an eminently sensible idea. Provided that such space is available, and didn't affect sports facilities...
Chips and burgers can be cooked in minutes, it's why fast food is bad for you.
At a time schools are selling sports pitches? You want to waste time growing food?
Privatisation.
Can you lot believe I and every child in the country used to receive half a pint of milk free every day because the government thought it was good for us.
37p? For a rich Western European country with a booming economy. Sick.
"Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher..."
Oh, and it was 1/3 pint.
My first political slogan, I must have been about 8 :hyper:
Was it really? shows how everything seems bigger in memory!
Edited to add: If you young un's ever wonder why people over thirty are so bitter about Maggie this is one of the reasons.
She took our milk away when we were infants and we will not forgive :crying: :impissed:
*sighs*
Tell me about it
That and the loss of hope.
"There is no such things as society"
3m unemployed
The Poll Tax
End of mining industry.
Rise of Murdoch.
I could go on...
Oh I didn't want to start on the rest as I'm in a good mood. The milk was her little warm up the next 15 years. :eek2:
I don't know whats worse her milk-snatching without a care or Blair's 37p dinners and side order of fake sincerity
For the record, like.
And for the record, I was married with one child by then