School dinners are an ongoing problem at my house ...
when I ask my son 'what did you have at dinner', 9 times out of ten it's something like a sausage roll, because he won't have jacket potatoes (he's tried them several times and just doesn't like them).
He's another picky eater I'm afraid, but he will try new things in spite of this so I can only assume that what they serve him must be that unappealing for him not to bother choosing it.
However, the school he attends have been keeping a close watch on Jamie's programs and want to try and improve what they serve to the children, so they've taken the matter into their own hands over what they get supplied to serve the kids at lunchtime and started a scheme whereby
they source the ingredients etc locally in an attempt to offer a more healthy diet!
This has only started this week as the kids just went back after the Easter break .. Monday's food sounded not too bad and yesterday's sounded lovely ... but today's *offering* was back to the cruddy stuff they used to serve before and I wasn't impressed.
I know it will take time and a considerable amount of effort for them to get it right, but I'm fed up of my lad always coming home and saying ... 'I didn't eat very much' because the choice was so poor. He would LOVE them to serve a roast beef or roast chicken dinner every day! LOL
He used to take packed lunches at one time, but I thought it would be better if he ate hot meal at dinnertime instead ... I often wonder if I did the right thing?
I think what annoys me most of all is that they've instituted this during the last year he'll be at this school, so I'll have all this to go through again in September when he starts at secondary (senior) school. Oh the joy!
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My experience of school dinners is different again, as I went home at dinner and got fed because we lived so close to the schools I attended.
As I got older I then started having school dinners (so I could stay in school and be with friends) and for the most part they weren't too bad ... soggy overcooked cabbage was
always on offer and the smell of it is the thing I remember the most.
But you have to remember ... we didn't have things like chicken nuggets, beefburgers or any of the other 'fast foods' when I was a kid (well ... there was fish and chips of course!) and that's probably why our school meals weren't as bad as they appear to be now.
I haven't seen any of this particular set of Jamie's programs and I can well imagine the colourful language he's used during the filming of them.
He's a good 'un!!
