Jamie Oliver Hits Back At Health Secretary Insults
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/30/jamie-oliver-school-meals-lansley
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It's like Thatcher years taking away the Milk for schools. Now the Tories want to take away healthy eating at schools.
The Tories were having a hell of a Wednesday.
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It's like Thatcher years taking away the Milk for schools. Now the Tories want to take away healthy eating at schools.
The Tories were having a hell of a Wednesday.
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The tories have sunk to a new low...of course it will be the poor children that suffer the most. Unhealthy eating habits that starts in childhood can lead to obesity in later life.
I have worked in a Secondary school since 2003, and i use to eat from the canteen every day, i stopped a few years ago, it was a joke, and HE IS TO BLAME!
Set meals, you cannot choose what you want from the hot counter, has to be exactly as stated, so no having peas instead of beans if peas is "option 2". :mad:
If you do not want the cake you still have to pay for it, as only set meals :mad:
Fish as the vegitarian option :mad:
Very small portion sizes for the cost :mad:
to name but a few of the issues......
So you are against freedom of choice?
Surely it is the parent's responsibility to ensure the child has a healthy packed lunch?
I do like Jamie Oliver (sometimes) this is one instance where he is in the wrong and Labour bringing him on board as part of their Health Nazi regime was just an awful stunt that backfired terribly.
My kid's school has strict rules regarding packed lunches, so even if the kitchens were to close the parents would be pulled into school and warned about the child's packed lunch if it didn't meet their healthy eating criteria.
Seriously what has changed from the 80's to 90's til now? sure we had fat kids then but there's more of them now? and yet there wasn't much in the way of SS policing of people's diets back then? what went wrong between 1997 and 2010?
And got a Tory govenment, or at least one that is nine tenths Tory
What's changed has got less to do with healthy eating and more to do with an inactive lifestyle. In the 1980s many more kids walked to school and played outside. Far fewer sat in front of the telly or the pc playing games for hours on end. Fewer of them had mums that worked so they weren't doing fairly inactive stuff at after school clubs after a fairly sedentary day in the classroom. A lot of the competetive sports activities were cut from the curriculum.
We eat fewer calories in general than we did immediately after the war - but we exercise far less.
Screening kids lunch boxes - ridiculous.
Wanting to improve the diet of children - common sense.
..but then again we spent the evenings playing football in the park rather than sat in front of the X Box.
Why do they have to be unhealthy, parents must look after their children not feed them junk.:mad:
I remember all those fat kids in the park playing football:p
That's all I've got to say.
yeh battered turkey twisslers burgers pizza and loads of chips please:p. thats going to keep our children in good health.
And I agree, I did not watch jamie oliver but if all he offerd was boiled carrots I can see where you are coming from.
I'm not advocating that. We need balance. And we do need to find a soloution.But the answer is more with a change of lifestyle, and culture than just five meals in at school. Oliver's soloution is not the answer.
and whats yours? lets have your school menu....lets have your ideas for our kids that are getting diabetes at 12, instead of moaning at jamie oliver you tell us the solution.
all i can say is if i was getting the food my son gets from September at School,my school eating Habits wouldn't have involved 10p crisp and tuck shops as much as they did
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/mar/29/jamie-oliver-school-dinners-meals
The old Greenwich menu...
Burgers and chips
Sausage rolls
Fish fingers
Drumstick-shaped turkey nuggets
Chicken nuggets (pictured)
And the new one Roast beef and all the trimmings
Mushroom and lentil bake
Mexican bean wrap (pictured)
Lamb and vegetable pie
Creamy coconut fish
which one would you rather have the chice of
I just said what I feel is the soloution in the previous post. And oh every school has a different menu, and a different quality of cooking.
in the borough where i live there are 2 standardised menus,and of the 111 primary schools in the borough 70 schools use Menu A all the way through the year(on a 3 week rotation of menu changes) 20 use Menu B and 14 use A and B(over a 6 week rotation)
here are examples of the menus they are using(in the current school year)
http://www.wigan.gov.uk/Services/BusinessRegeneration/MetroFresh/SchoolMeals/PrimaryMenu.htm
That looks a brilliant varied menu full of tasty healthy food,:p
why the hell people are negative about this does my head in, I would hate to see the crap they feed their kids.
Yeh OK....:D good try but a ...fail