La preoccupazione per la scelta del cibo e la qualità man mano che lo schema di pasti caldi scolastici cresce
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It would be some achievement, depressingly unsurprising though
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,if the government manages to make an absolute balls of this
>with some saying the quality of food is “unacceptable” and “in breach” of constitutional law.
i highly doubt this , these parents are most likely contrarian ,
Started off ok, my kids were eating but seems to have really dropped off in a very short space of time.
Why did it have to be a hot meal? The logistics and expense of it having to be hot doesn’t seem worth it at all.
>Colleagues teaching in a school where the hot schools meals scheme has been in place for many years stated that, to begin with, healthy dinners were on the menu but as children were not eating those dinners the menu was changed and more unhealthy options were offered. Now the vast majority of these children eat pizza, nuggets, sausages, chips on a daily basis.
That’s a problem. Those in charge of running the scheme in schools shouldn’t allow themselves to cater to the demands of the children to that extent. Stick with the proper stuff and engage in nutritional education to get them eating it, rather than reverting to ultra-processed shite.
My kid has a dietary condition that isn’t catered for, so we can’t avail of it. She is happy enough to bring in a packed lunch, but the hospital team are asking all the parents to get on to the dept of social protection to try and get the scheme to cater for everyone.
The young lad brought home a dinner last week and it was meatballs and pasta, looked nice, but the box said halal on it, but when you go to the website to choose the menu it says the meatballs are pork. There is no halal option, just in case any Muslim families aren’t aware. It worth asking about.
They’re letting perfect be the enemy of good.
A scheme that was originally designed to bring children in working class areas out of food poverty is going to be latched onto by the D4 elite. What would’ve been rolls and sambos is now going to be quinoa and lentils.
No one’s disagreeing that the food needs to be good, healthy food but my healthy and their healthy is miles apart. And there isn’t a bottomless pit of money to go around for it either. This is the kind of thing that needs to be at the level of a provider of say, SSP or Kylemore and there’s dark forces out there trying to make it like Fallon & Byrne or The Happy Pear.
This food is awful, even the hungriest chap won’t eat it.
Shepard’s pie for all children and men.
Ok yeah, but let’s now consider what do these parents who cave in usually sending the kids to school with in the lunchboxes. Some dry sandwich at best, usually a sausage roll. Maybe throw in an apple, which most kids just return home.
The reality is that most kids are simply spoiled for food as their parents simply cannot deal with screaming kids and just give them toast with Nutella.
Nutritional habits are not the responsibility of the school. It’s on parents.
The only really important is that everyone gets fed.
It might not be ideal, but you can work on trying to improve it later
Chicken curry, wedges, chicken bites, hot chicken rolls and pizza rolls are all that are offered at our school. Used to be run by a local restaurant that would do soups, sandwiches and fresh hot dinners with cookies only on sale on a Friday as a treat. Whoever has the contract now is making a killing by selling pure shite food.
Let them eat cake.