So I’m not one of these people that complain about everything and expect something for nothing but this really got my blood boiling.
My son is in 1st year, and his school have been making a big deal about the healthy and nutritious lunch that is provided. DEIS school so Dept of Education provide extra funding to support this. And the school went with a range of sandwiches and fresh fruit as their choice of lunch.
Our son is autistic, mainstream classes, but he is generally quiet and shy and isn’t one to complain about anything outside of home. Very much a rule follower type person so every time we’ve asked about lunch in school he is singing its praises. Sandwiches are the best he’s ever had and stuff like that.
End of term exams this week, so he was busy and brought his lunch home with him and we got to see these famous sandwiches first hand and I am disgusted with what either the dept or his school regard as acceptable standard of lunch for our children.
Back to making the packed lunch tomorrow for us. I wonder how much the taxpayer is paying for this sorry excuse of a thing.
by No-Echo3837
21 comments
What is it meant to be?
That’s depressing.
Complain to the school. That is not a sandwich, it’s almost dry bread with a smidge of mayo.
Get in touch with the school and include the picture. Just ask if the head is aware of the standard but it’s important you establish this is typical rather than an unlucky one off before doing so. Do you know other parents or are in a WhatsApp type group of parents, maybe others have seen similar.
That’s outrageous.
Our primary get free hot lunches under the same program even though it’s not a deis school.
Food is grand really, not top quality but very acceptable for mass produced and then shipped stuff.
Things such as Mac and cheese, pasta bakes, meat and veg. Veggie options every day as well.
Are they supplied by a company with the initials GF? If so then they’re all like that.
Our school started the lunches in September and I was wondering what parents thought of them, but it’s only now occurring to me that parents likely don’t actually see the sandwiches because they’ve been eaten
Looks like someone puked in your sandwich eh bud?
Vomit sandwich?
Is the school/meal prep company not obliged to comply with some sort of health/balance diet regulation? This is carb on top of what exactly??? We do our lunch boxes so im unaware but this doesn’t look like right at all.. bastards have no shame… sorry for you and your child
It shouldn’t even be supplied in jail.
Nothing but the best for the kids, you know.
Contact the school and the local national newspapers. That’s a disgrace and has to be called out.
That makes me very angry.
This is infuriating. Fucking pricks depriving a child of a decent lunch to get them through the day. Especially in a Deis school where this is likely the only meal some of these kids get some days.
Taxpayer probably paying 3 or 4euro per sandwich too.
Yikes! Blimey, makes me think fondly of the swill and lumpy mash of my early schooldays (even so, I still 🤢at the thought of some of it) Proper, hot school dinners were such a great thing, even when you hated them.
I think the people that make these sandwiches hate your children
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This year my friend bought the overpriced curry and got food poisoning from it. 💀
Secondary school lunches are honestly worse than a prison scran.
> I wonder how much the taxpayer is paying for this sorry excuse of a thing.
I remember the British government when they butted heads with Marcus Rashford over school lunches, they had to back down and give school lunch hampers or something like that.
They hampers were priced at “£30” for [this.](https://e3.365dm.com/21/01/2048×1152/skynews-free-school-meals-food_5234892.jpg?20210112100040) People added the actual cost and it was a fiver. The crowd contracted to send these out were a company called Chartwells, who were accused of naked profiteering.
There is no doubt some Irish equivalent doing the same thing here, on a fat contract and offering the bare minimum. People in the UK tore into the company and they had to apologise and offer more substantial hampers.
Do some digging, find out who this company is. Publicly shame them on social media. That is all companies respond to.
Look, I’m French. The way lunch is done in Irish schools is already an abomination to me, even when provided by parents (10 minutes to gobble down a cold sambo at your desk as quickly as possible) this is not healthy nor what I’m trying to teach my children) and everything about it is at the antipodes of what I grew up with. So I am absolutely not surprised that this is what the DoE would provide DEIS schools with. Lunch is just not important to schools, at all. Just a tick-the-box exercise that needs to be over with ASAP.
Does the school get a budget, and they get it?
If so, some local business is probably really taking the piss here. Might have better luck shaming the business locally than trying to get the school to do anything about it.
Just my thoughts and experiences.