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Having watched all of Jamie Oliver's recent programmes, they sound perfectly disgusting. Apart from my first primary school (in Edinburgh), where the meals were pretty disgusting - late 50s - my other primary and secondary school meals (in Aberdeen and the Isle of Man) throughout the 60s were pretty good, on the whole. I've never understood why most kids seem to dislike vegetables, specially green vegetables. I have always, even as a small child, adored them - and I did have a sweet tooth, too (Fry's Turkish Delight and 'Cremola Foam' were like drugs for me!). I expect it has a great deal to do with what I was presented with as an infant and child at home. Some parents seem completely irresponsibe, to me - I know 'pester power' is a problem, but I think for many parents this is a 'cop out', pure and simple. Jamie may be brash, but it needs someone like him to embarrass the governmeent and parents into change.
Yeah. My disbelief at Oliver saying Scotland was miles ahead was entirely genuine: I don't know about the rest of the country but all Glasgow schools have this thing called the "Fuel Zone", which is supposed to be like a fast food outlet but must provide at least one healthy meal.
The burgers etc. really are putrid and the so-called "healthy meal" can be things like chilli con carne or spag bol, which isn't that healthy - specially with the quality of meat they use. Made me wonder what kind of slop is being served in England...
(What happened to the previous comment I made? Haloscan have snatched it).
It might appear again; I was just saying I was genuinely surprised by Oliver's comments about Scotland because in Glasgow at least, the meals really are vile - made me wonder what the English have to put up with.
Btw,
Go easy on us parents; I've a 3 year old and I can't get him to eat a damn thing.
Yes, well, as a non-parent myself, who am I to talk? However, if I was ever a parent (unlikely given that I am gay - LOL), one of the first things I'd do would be to ration access to TV and there would definitiely be no TV in a child's bedroom until they were at least 14 or 15 years old. So much of the advertising on TV aimed at kids is subversive. There was a really interesting article yesterday in the Telegraph about the counter-productive psychology many parents employ when offering rewards for good behaviour by, for example, promising treats such as a Macdonalds meal, or some sweets or some chocolate biscuits, etc. Kids then come to associate such poor nutritional inputs as being 'good'. I got offered subscriptions to various kids publications instead, of a more worthy nature than 'Dandy' or the 'Beano', and any toys I requested were always inexpensive and boringly educational, or so my parents used to say; they said they were often embarrassed by the modestty of what I wanted for Christmas, for example, and I do remember them occasionally asking if that was really all I wanted. Maybe I was just an unusually serious child.
Oh, I've no doubt it's not easy (-;
LOL. Beleive me, my boy needs no indoctrination to be convinced that sweeties are good. He's completely fussy with everything else; minute differences in a sandwich for example, are enough for him to reject it. Not chocolate though - he'll eat anything made of chocolate. I reckon if I gave him turd-shaped chocolate he'd eat it.
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