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the frube type fromage frais can be frozen too, again keeps the food nice n chilled and defrosts by lunch lol, x

My children took packed lunches as I (a dinner lady) saw what the 'pizza' was made of - a pizza base, tomato ketchup and Kraft cheese slices!
School kitchens (where 'proper' meals used to be made), were removed in the 1980's.
At Secondary school, the dinners tend to be 'pick & choose' - so a child could choose a very unhealthy meal.

Domestic Science, when my two were at school was called 'Food Technology', and consisted of, over 4 weeks, getting a pizza box (difficult for me, as we never ate shop bought ones), studying it, looking at the ingredients, and then designing a pizza box!!
What a waste of time!
ALL children should learn how to make meals from scratch, know different cuts of meat, types of fish, herbs etc, and learn about nutrition.
...and it should be called 'Domestic Science' again - to give it some gravitas, it should be a GCSE and count as a science subject.

Hadn't thought of that with the crab sticks Stray ....nice one !!!

water
fruit
fromais frais/yogurts,
sandwiches,
cheese crackers
dunkers if im feeling lazy,
frozen crab sticks, they defrsot by lunchtime keeping his things cool
i am norty n i somtimes sneak him a little kinder stick in haha but only because he wont eat a choclate biscuts or cakes and his friends genrally have those,

Like the sound of your packed lunch Muffy, remember it is hard to think of different things each day.

Carol

Quote from Carol........"told father not to buy sausages from him, perhaps there lies a tale"...(tail)... ;-)

I tend to steer away from putting in sandwiches everyday...home made quiche always goes down well...and I make my own chicken nuggets and freeze them...so I often bake them up the day before for the next day's lunch...i do pop a little cake,cereal bar or biscuit in there (generally home made)..but not chocolate...sometimes a little bowl of fruit cocktail.instead....they'd have a pudding if they had a school meal is my reasoning..sometimes I'll bung a packet of crisps in...and sometimes they'll have sandwiches...but I do where possible try to make it a mix of different and mostly healthy lunches ...Youngest just loves fruit and veg so in the summer she takes in chicken caesar salads lol x

has anybody actually seen school dinners now
they are nothing like what we had

i say most kids would like a packed lunch to a school dinner any day :-D

Niegh ;-) :-D :-D

Carol :-0

Too late for that now Carol..........but i guess you've eaten it now :-S

Probably did Mr Magoo, don't like the thought that we ate horse on a regular basis, but local butcher was a friend and told father not to buy sausages from him, perhaps there lies a tale ;-)

Carol

A different option is .......the government are trying to fight obessaity SP in children and by asking parents not send their children to school with pack lunches may mean cutting down on too much bread choc and chrisps ect NOT for a min do I think you are one of them mums muffy I know you do loads of homemade stuff and also bake and cook with your girls :-D

what do most parents put in a packed lunch ?

i think children should be taught to cook in school, and not copy healthy eating leaflets like we did lol,
i think them banning packed lunches is madness,

i certainly wouldnt pay the price for what they get, mine has packed lunches, and there always healthy, as i agree with healthy eating for youngsters,

when I started senior school in 1978 it was changed for 1 term I would do cockery and sewing the next term wood work and metal work, now my cookery teacher should never of been been let loose near humans let alone school children my sewing lessons were boring I didnt want to embrode or make a pin cushion I wanted to learn how to use one of them fancy sewing machines lined up against the back wall.... I have never had any need to knock up a wooden egg timer nor have I ever felt the need to file down a lump of metal drill a hole in it and call it a key ring never.....I hated wood and metal work the works smelt awful and were dirty...my sewing teacher disagreed with me wholeheartedly about the pin cushion and never allowed me in her lesson ever again to this day I can just about sew a button, I quickly learnt not to make direct eye contact and keep 4ft between me and my cockery teacher for a quick get away when she decided to chase me with a craving knife but when she wasnt actually in one of her moods we got on and I enjoyed her lessons for 5 years..

Could well have done Carol......nothing came in packets with labels on. There was a lot of meat on the black market.

Both of mine would easily be able to whisk up a meal should the need arise....though I wouldn't be looking forward to the state of the kitchen afterwards lol

DS,,,,,the children will love it.

I loved it,but it covered not just cooking cakes.soups biscuits,pies,shepherds pies.pastry etc......it also coverd laundry,mending, ironing cleaning and polishing....and many of the methods and ways have stuck all these years.....

only thing is,OH is a better cake maker than I'll ever be.))))

packed lunches ?should be an option...

Can I ask Mr Magoo, are you suggesting that after the war we ate horse, I thought there was a shortage as most were sent to war and killed.? Remember my father saying that his uncle was one of the few that returned with his horse!

Carol

edit I mean WW1 regarding his uncle.

Well that is a shame that she only has one term Muffy , but at least you will teach her how to cook ,too many don't bother , I really don't know how people can live on micro meals , just laziness ..