• UK head teachers urged to ban packed lunches and make school meals mandatory
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I prefer bringing my own food. A bit fucked up if a school restricts options to encourage eating things that aren't sugar and fat though. Especially when all they serve is sugar and fat, that tastes slightly less like sugar and fat. I remember these pork fritters that are still served at our school, they tasted literally of dry dog food. I know because i ate some when i was little. It was awful. The chicken patties are awesome though, as well as the hotdogs, my school's hotdogs are big, they have a snap like a bratwurst, and are full of flavor, probably their most loved item, only thing is, they only serve it once a month. Also every monday and friday we have the same breakfast, shit on a piece of cardboard and drywall they call biscuits and gravy, and sausage pizza. They keep raising the price too, and lowering the quality, but i think that's just me. I stopped eating school breakfast outright in 8th grade, and have all but stopped eating lunch since last year. I go and get my own food, which almost always tastes better than the schools.
When I was at school I accidentally broke a glass in the refectory and my tutor saw me and, being the despicable little twat that he was, suspended me from eating there for a month. My grandfather was a chef, however, and worked at a nearby hotel. He would deliberately send a taxi ten minutes before lunchtime, so the Prefects would have to come to wherever I might have been to collect me and I'd go to this hotel for a three-course meal. Pissed him off no end, did that.
Obligatory song: Lunch Lady Land [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JANBlEKr9k[/media] But yeah, your schools must have sucked. My school has fantastic food, its healthy, tastes good, and is pretty cheap too.
The lunch food at my High School was good for the first semester of my Freshman year (it was all fresh and prepared there), but by second semester they had transitioned to "Aramark" and the food went down hill. No longer as healthy, delicous, or good looking as it used to be. When I do get it, I do end up feeling a bit sick to my stomach, though not as bad as I did when I had my elementary school's sloppy joes once.
Back when I was in Primary there weren't any school lunches period, just packed lunches. However, there was a tuck shop open during lunch that sold stuff like cakes and chocolate. I remember buying tons of the stuff and making the other kids play games to win them off me. If these schools want to make money off of lunches, open a tuck shop.
At my old school we had proper trained chefs deciding the menu and cooking the food, and for the most part it was all good quality and relatively affordable (we're talking £2-£3 per day for a meal). Yes, the unhealthy options like fizzy drinks and sweets were limited (leading to something of a black market of junk food in the playground, with some enterprising children making upwards of £50 per week). And I'm not sure where the people who are calling for more education on healthy eating come from, but I know that at my school at least we had healthy eating lessons coming out of our ears.
When I was in primary school, they forced anyone with a school meal to eat everything on the plate. I have since NEVER eaten a vegetable. Carrots, peas, you name it. I can't stand the taste of any vegetable. I also have a problem where I will only eat potatoes and pork, having up to 3 types of cooked potato on my plate with a side of baked beans. (Generally Roast, Boiled and baby potatoes (canned)) I'm 16 now if you wondering how long I been doing this for.
[QUOTE=shadowboy303;41438943]When I was in primary school, they forced anyone with a school meal to eat everything on the plate. I have since NEVER eaten a vegetable. Carrots, peas, you name it. I can't stand the taste of any vegetable. I also have a problem where I will only eat potatoes and pork, having up to 3 types of cooked potato on my plate with a side of baked beans. (Generally Roast, Boiled and baby potatoes (canned)) I'm 16 now if you wondering how long I been doing this for.[/QUOTE] You need help.
I don't see this going to help anybody at all, better yet it can be worse, Allergies, Poisoned Food, and unhealthy and not so tasteful food. When I was at school, people always trying to steal your chocolate milk, because people are too poor or act like they are poor, when they don't got the money to get a full meal with a chocolate milk. Not only that, i had certain times that the milk taste shitty... whats even worse if you only serve chocolate milk, a lactose-intolerant child can not get anything else to drink. First of all, what I would do first before debating on the issue is see the evidence first, What are the kids these days bringing in? a bag of chips and a mountain dew? or a full lunch box, containing mac and cheese, or pasta salad, along with a sandwich that contains turkey, ham, cheese, and other healthy ingredients? Sometimes these kids won't eat at all and rather be there to talk to friends before the bell rings. If there are alot of people eating unhealthy food like oreo cookies and a pepsi, then yes this is evident enough to warrant a ban on that, however not as a whole ban on every bring in food and drinks from students and eat only food and drinks served by the lunch ladies. However if the kids these days are bringing in leftovers from dinner, like a spare baked potato and a steak or a pasta salad and a ham sandwich, then there is no need for pack lunches to be banned as these kids are eating healthy anyways, just got to make sure they take any vitamins and minerals they are missing out on. I hope that these schools teaches kid to eat healthy and exercise daily, a few push-ups and jumping jacks won't hurt anybody. Not only that though but this may help out, why not make it mandatory to teach your kids how to cook? cooking in this day and age will be a wonderful thing, and it's almost like a rare to see people these days that know how to cook full meals and learn about spices and seasoning to make the meal more delicious. Teach them the safety of cooking and how not to start a fire, teach them what to do when a fire happens, and if possible, teach them the many different worldly cooking styles out there as well, oriental, middle eastern, Caribbean, etc. Although teaching them how to cook will be kinda expensive, and cost alot of resources on food and such, however in the end, kids these days will learn how to feed themselves with not just TV dinners but know how to make unique meals and history about other things that involved with cooking, it will also help get them into MANY restaurants and MANY other jobs that has certain knowledge of foods and ingredients.
Watch as the quality of the school meals drop while the price increases tenfold
I've never understood why schools outside of Australia have mandatory school lunches. I went to three different schools during K-12 and none of them had mandatory lunches. You either bought in your own shit or you buy from a canteen. I remember in Year 8 at the school I went to for 8-12 they sold things like bottles of coke and the chicken burgers were $2.50. They adopted a 'healthier' menu in Year 9 to comply with regulation I guess, but what they meant by healthier was dropping coke off of the menu, increasing the cost of chicken burgers to $3.50 and ironically adding the best damn chicken nuggets in the world for only $2.00 (at a school canteen can you believe that haha). I think they made me fatter but yeah those days are gone. I remember in our last days of school, Year 12, we would constantly sneak out of school during our 'study' periods and lunch breaks to bring in even better shit to eat. Those of us who got our licences early did things like Maccas runs, but we also got other things like KFC and these really good chips from a fish and chip shop. My Engineering Studies teacher caught me and a mate sneaking in with McDonalds but he was ashamed that we chose to get Maccas, not that we sneaked out of the school. Fuck, even some of my other mates bought in pizza to the school and walked by the principal near one of the school gates and the principal gave no fucks. Year 12 was the best year ever because the teachers just let you go crazy.
My old maths teacher used to hate the schools meals too, so he orders a bunch of pizzas for the entire class from dominos that is conveniently placed down the road. Maths was my favourite subject for this very reason, that and seeing as he was head of department no one gave two shits about it. Lol.
The main reason why I never ate any school meals was the fact I'm lactose intolerant and while I was at school being allergic to dairy wasn't exactly a well known thing (Soya and dairy alternatives only really shot off in popularity after I left, before that its was pretty specialist food) and well, absolutely all the shit they bought in either had masses of milk protein or whey powder in it as its a cheap bulking agent for foodstuffs. If I ate any of that food I'd be off ill for a week. Forcing kids with dietary needs is gonna be retarded as this sounds like a blanket forcing with no look of the needs of the kids, just give us more money.
Aha, they tried to do that where I go to school. It failed terribly. I like bringing packed lunches, I always have since kindergarten. Plus, the healthiest thing my school offers is bottled water, other than that it's junk food or fried food.
Won't switching the schools and prison food budgets help? Per meal, prisons have just over twice as much to spend on their food than schools.
[QUOTE=Memobot;41439774]Won't switching the schools and prison food budgets help? Per meal, prisons have just over twice as much to spend on their food than schools.[/QUOTE] Remember also that prisons have to provide three meals per day, as opposed to the one schools have to.
The food at the canteen at my school is fine mostly, but they're tightasses with the prices of shit. also they started charging for plastic forks, spoons and knifes (fucking plastic) It's only a measly 10 cents but its stupid
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;41426728]on a semi-related note, why don't they just make school lunch free, especially in lower income areas? i'm talking about the US because i have no idea how schools work in the uk. like, do you guys only go to hogwartz or something? when my parents were saving up for plane tickets so we could go to my rich-ass uncle and aunt's rented resort in Jamaica, they refused to go to the grocery store for two weeks. starved my ass off during that time, and couldn't buy lunch because they were being stingy as fuck. that's small time compared to what a lot of poorer people have to deal with. going through an entire school day without getting some food in your system is the worst, and a lot of poor kids gotta deal with it because you have to pay like 5 bucks for a disgusting piece of soggy pizza that comes with old carrots and chocolate milk. sure, blah blah blah budget, blah blah blah funding. but i'm pretty sure the comfort and well-being of the students is more important than funding a new iPad lab or replacing the 2 year old computers with brand new ones. oh, who am i kidding, the entire school system is fucked. they focus on trying to get DA BEST test scores so they'll get funding, so they can use money to give students more resources so they can continue to get test scores. tests. [editline]12th July 2013[/editline] by semi-related note i mean i am really tired and literally just made a duplicate of my previous post but completely different[/QUOTE] if your parents are unemployed/earn below a certain amount you get free school meals in the uk
I remember when I was about 7 years old I was forced to eat the mashed potatoes they served at my school, they were dry and disgusting and almost every day I'd end up being sick trying to eat them. Not only that but I was putting on dangerous amounts of weight from the meals. Thankfully by 13 I was being home educated, I learned a lot about cooking from my Dad (since it's his line of work), and I ended up eating plenty of tasty and healthy meals which got me back down to a healthy weight. And now I'm 17 and attending college, we have catering students who prepare all of our food, along with all sorts of places to go to eat outside of college (like this kickass sandwich bar me and my friends go to about 5 minutes away). tl;dr - Fuck school meals.
At my school, they were teaching us how to eat to die because the food they served definitely won't let you live long and in good health. It was a good thing they let us bring our own lunch though. The only thing they tried forcing us to do was finish the healthier parts of our packed lunch first before we left the lunch room.
The lunch food that my former school handed out consisted of one random vegetable and one random sandwich, this led to weird combinations such as broccoli and PB&J being common.
Our school had an open campus so we just drove to Taco Bell for lunch lol
People forget that the stuff they sell in schools also costs too much and most parents are not willing to pay 3-6 quid for their kid to get a meal.
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;41439812]Remember also that prisons have to provide three meals per day, as opposed to the one schools have to.[/QUOTE] Yes but they still (apparently) have a higher budget per meal, doesn't matter if they are serving 10 meals a day.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;41444247]Our school had an open campus so we just drove to Taco Bell for lunch lol[/QUOTE] They are (or were) planning on bringing in a law here saying all fast food restaurants in a certain radius of schools must be closed during school hours
My school is slap centre of a proper market town, so at lunch people can just go out to local butchers, bakers, etc, and people sell fresh food during market days too. Was pretty good.
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