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Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by dusing »

kevinalexbrown wrote: post #32

Awesome and hilarious - I would be a very proud father or older brother. But on a serious note, directed at the media woohoo that always ensues, demanding better food for schools Jamie Oliver style misses the constraint of a limited budget. Presumably there's some price/utility tradeoff between the cost of the food and the health/taste. Then there's a tradeoff between teacher quality and wages, school size and the nu…

You should watch Jamie Oliver's show he spends a great deal of time talking about budgets. Healthier food doesn't need to be more expensive, he has proved it a bunch of times.

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by smcl »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #24
tnash wrote: post #6

If you watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution show to this point, it was quite depressing how little was done about it on the American show. We unfortunately live in a world where we value money over people's health.

I have heard the argument that with a fully private healthcare system there is no financial benefit to lobbying/pushing for a healthier society as the healthcare sector can only make money off people who are ill - therefore it comes down to who can afford to shout the loudest at those in charge. I guess until there is a way to profit off prevention rather than cure there will always be this sort of conflict of intere…

>> Scotland (for now, lets see how the independence referendum goes) is NHS (national health service) based

Scotland leans left, there's no way the NHS is going even if independence is granted.

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by ktizo »

kevinalexbrown wrote: post #32

Awesome and hilarious - I would be a very proud father or older brother. But on a serious note, directed at the media woohoo that always ensues, demanding better food for schools Jamie Oliver style misses the constraint of a limited budget. Presumably there's some price/utility tradeoff between the cost of the food and the health/taste. Then there's a tradeoff between teacher quality and wages, school size and the nu…

Doesn't really matter how much extra money you can spend on the teaching if the kids are all sugar crashing and can't concentrate.

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by DanBC »

pragmatic wrote: post #53

What is all the uproar about? I looked through the pictures..didn't see any rice with maggots or anything terrible... Did I miss a post? Is this something to do with the portions or taste or time to eat? (I'm quite serious, not trying to troll).

Lack of fruit and veg; unbalanced choice with plenty of carbs but weird protein etc.

Whether that's because she choose odd things (and she is only 9, so maybe they should be helping her chose better) or because that's the only selection is open.

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by fierarul »

josefonseca wrote: post #27

And this is in Scotland. Can you imagine what it is like in the poorest countries in the world? This is why we need a permanent, open Internet on all nations, because as soon as the truth comes out, someone does something about it.

That food looked pretty bad so pretty sure it's actually better in some of the "poorer" countries.

There was some old post about school lunches over the world. Google finds me this: http://todayilearned.co.uk/2011/04/20/what-kids-of-the-world...

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by camiller »

debacle wrote: post #20

School lunches were never great, but they've gone down hill stupendously since I was younger. Making my son's lunch for him every morning might be the single greatest favor I do for him on a day to day basis.

For what it is worth, about half way through this school year my daughters school (and presumably all US schools) had to start following new healthy eating guidelines imposed by the government.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/governance/legislation/nutrition...

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by gavinlynch »

cdcarter wrote: post #40
bub wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dinner can mean lunch in Britain. Also, tea can be biscuits and cake in the afternoon, or the main meal in the evening, which can also be called supper. Google 'define dinner'; din·ner/ˈdinər/ Noun: The main meal of the day, taken either around midday or in the evening.

I believe the winking face at the end was to imply some form of sarcasm or joke.

Correct :)

Re: Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

sukuriant wrote: post #45
potatolicious wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My question is: where are the parents in this? I don't know about the UK, but in North America there are few things a school fears more than angry parents. A group of angry parents can rain hellfire down on a school board and principal. Why is there no outrage that their children are being served slop?

Did /your/ parents know what you ate at school?

I don't know about his school, but every month my kid's school sends a lunch menu home with the "what's happening at school this month" letter. So we do know what he's eating, and by looking at his purchases online it's pretty obvious what he likes.
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