You may remember that there was a big things about the quality of the school dinners that are served to our children. There is a follow up here and it is shocking.
Finally someone is getting the point about these dinners and so the powers that be are attempting to do the right thing for once, and then parents f**k it up?!?!?! Why? Are these people really as stupid as they sound???
The answer quite clearly is a resounding YES to this question. These parents feed their children pleb food, convinience crap, fast food, high sugar and salt food that kills their childs palette for later life (and yes, my sister in law, I am referring to you and the poision you feed your 18 month old son) and then because their child, who is used to this utter s**t, refuses to eat the healthy alternative that is put before them and they stop their child eating the dinners! It was shown during the TV series the massive improvement in the children's behaviour, concentration span, attentiveness, etc.
Star eats a lot of healthy things. Lots of fruit whenever she wants, fresh (sometimes raw) vegetables, proper meat (no processed crap), healthy drinks for her. Sure she has the occasional meal of crap, but even she knows it is not good for her ("Why is this food bad for you Taz?" "Because it is all brown and doesn't have different colours.") and she can tell the difference at FIVE YEARS OLD. Dessert is fruit or similar, no ice cream or stuff like that. I am glad of that because sometimes the school menu is appalling with no nutritional values and too many of the same food groups thrown together. We live in the town that taste forgot though, so this is understandable to a degree, but still makes me angry. None of the parents really seem to know better though.
Children go to school to be educated but it seems you cannot educate some of the parents, no matter how hard you try.
Posted by AlexC at September 14, 2005 01:52 PMOMG! I hope that doesn't happen at my son's school when he gets older. As it is, they were surprised he didn't like grape juice. I didn't care if he got it, but at home it is just water and milk. I wish you the best of luck.
Posted by: vw bug at September 14, 2005 04:10 PMAh, school food... how fondly I recall it :-/
It always left me with the notion that it's impossible to cook anything well if you're doing it 500 servings at a time.
Posted by: Harvey at September 15, 2005 09:20 PM