Something does need to be done about school dinners. A slice of pizza or a cheese panini is fine for lunch if you’re an active kid and are guaranteed a nutritionally balanced meal for tea when you get home but, if you’re on free school meals and your only warm meal that day is a generous teaspoon of cheap noodley sludge with an oriental name under the guise of some health initiative you have the right to be pissed be off.
Parents have normalised shitty diets.
Now their kids are being offered good wholesome food they are complaining
That menu just looks like normal food to me. If a child reaches school age unwilling to eat anything other than pizza, nuggets and chips style rubbish that’s a failing of the parents on the same level as sending a kid to school unable to dress themselves or use a proper toilet.
That menu looks pretty good and fairly reasonable. There are also jacket potatoes available if you don’t want what’s on offer. There are two choices a day. At no point are both of the options spicy like curry.
Whether the food is made well or not is a different matter. The point is that the food offered is stuff a child could reasonably be expected to eat, is reasonably healthy and can be done cheaply in bulk.
Okay I was going to comment that there’s nothing wrong with pizza and chips for lunch. But I meant like as an occasional thing, these quoted parents are demanding nuggets, chips, sausage rolls, pizzas as the everyday lunch and claiming the children won’t eat the other perfectly normal food on the menu because it’s not children’s food?
I went to the Facebook post in question and it’s no surprise these commenters are mostly obese.
Poor kids not having any example of a healthy, normal diet growing up. Disgusting.
Edit: some of the reported given meals from the children are terrible but how honest are they. I distinctly remember my brother bitching about terrible meals he was given at school. He refused all the other good food options without fail.
I get the feeling that pizza, nuggets and chips is all they get at home (and all the parents eat).
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Something does need to be done about school dinners. A slice of pizza or a cheese panini is fine for lunch if you’re an active kid and are guaranteed a nutritionally balanced meal for tea when you get home but, if you’re on free school meals and your only warm meal that day is a generous teaspoon of cheap noodley sludge with an oriental name under the guise of some health initiative you have the right to be pissed be off.
Parents have normalised shitty diets.
Now their kids are being offered good wholesome food they are complaining
That menu just looks like normal food to me. If a child reaches school age unwilling to eat anything other than pizza, nuggets and chips style rubbish that’s a failing of the parents on the same level as sending a kid to school unable to dress themselves or use a proper toilet.
That menu looks pretty good and fairly reasonable. There are also jacket potatoes available if you don’t want what’s on offer. There are two choices a day. At no point are both of the options spicy like curry.
Whether the food is made well or not is a different matter. The point is that the food offered is stuff a child could reasonably be expected to eat, is reasonably healthy and can be done cheaply in bulk.
Okay I was going to comment that there’s nothing wrong with pizza and chips for lunch. But I meant like as an occasional thing, these quoted parents are demanding nuggets, chips, sausage rolls, pizzas as the everyday lunch and claiming the children won’t eat the other perfectly normal food on the menu because it’s not children’s food?
I went to the Facebook post in question and it’s no surprise these commenters are mostly obese.
Poor kids not having any example of a healthy, normal diet growing up. Disgusting.
Edit: some of the reported given meals from the children are terrible but how honest are they. I distinctly remember my brother bitching about terrible meals he was given at school. He refused all the other good food options without fail.
I get the feeling that pizza, nuggets and chips is all they get at home (and all the parents eat).
Poor kids.