Sugary Foods

michaelmac

What our children eat is very important, I have read that children who eat sugar from an early age usually eat sugary foods later in life.

By introducing them to more healthy options and giving them sugary foods only as treats say once a week will help them grow into healthy adults.

Jamie Oliver has done a great job in schools, but I think more is needed!

Children that have eaten sugary foods and unhealthy foods especially in high school are really hard to persuade away from what they like most. By having good role models in their life each day and maybe more food lessons we will help build their futures into healthy ones.

saltedm8

precisely what i think, check out my latest blog titled Wise up, thats my feelings on it

michaelmac

I checked it out. Children at schools these days spend all their money at shops on sweets and burger vans and the likes. They need to change the law on children leaving school for dinner under a certain age. When I was at school I was allowed at at break time for 15mins and dinner 1hour.

Most of my money was spent on rubbish like swiss rolls and sausage rolls which couldnt have helped me much.

Maybe a ban on burger vans, they fatten our children and serve some of the worst quality food in the world!

saltedm8

well, the truth of the matter is that 9 times out of 10 burger van meat quality is allot higher than your local McDonald's or Burger King, the meat is usually sold to them by local butcher's at trade prices... to which the meat is also usually sourced locally by the butcher.

Whilst junk food restaurant chains usually have their own farms, to which their main aim is to get the meat out as quickly and cheaply as possible making it a very neglected and a very cruddy meat.

children generally don't go to school near burger van stools, because they are usually located on motorways and industrial estates, they are more likely to go to the shop, local chippy or McDonald's

It is something that should be dealt with though, children should not be let off school grounds until the end of the school day, unless it is for an appointment or they need to go for medical purposes.

michaelmac

There is usually a burger van parked outside the school just up the road from me and is only there at dinner times.

In the past when Ive been served burgers from them they have been wrestlers burgers which are processed and just heated.

The burger vans you are talking about seem quality, there are some that seem low quality.

michaelmac

I must add that I personally enjoy wrestlers burgers. I am a processed food eater mainly not by choice.

saltedm8

They are not exacelly 'quality meats' they have just been treated a little better than what you described.

If there is a van outside the school, they must be getting enough business elsewhere too, unless that's why they are using cheap rubbish

either way, i agree, it has to go !! - maybe you could petition the school to not allow it there, get involved with the school, parents and local area to see if they would be interested in helping to get it moved stating your reasons why.

michaelmac

There is actually an ice cream van that sells wrestlers burgers which are really thin and not much meat in them, he has them in this heated pan which he scoops them from.

I wasted £2.00 on them when I bought one for me and my girlfriend. The bun in it was was disgusting too. It seems people are just trying to make a quick buck these days from the unsuspecting public

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shammrok

When my children were at school the P & F changed the tuckshop, sold only one variety of icecream and one variety of crisp, the rest were scrapped except for a few loose lollies with a monetary limit on their purchase. they introduced a number of filled rolls and sandwiches, soup and fruits, hot hocolate in the winter. The children were not allowed off the premises except with specific permission. I am also happy to say that here burger vans are limited to social functions and sporting matches.
School lunches do not exist here and I am grateful for that, my children took their lunch most days and as they had a say in it, i.e. one wanted rolls the other sarnies, one wanted say salad the other wanted cold meat. It was not too hard to keep them happy and empty lunch boxes at the end of the day was the result. Until high school when my son apparently made a tidy profit selling my lovingly prepared lunches lol.

Ann

Shammy, Your son sounds like quite the entrepreneur! lol When I was growing up there was'nt tuck shops or burger vans. Lunch was always healthy. Now it is awful!! My daughter refused to eat the food in the schools and I packed her lunch. When she got into high school she would want to eat at school because of the pizza choices and other fast food options. It was a real struggle that I probably always lost in high school.