Advice please....
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Thank you all for such interesting and sensible comments - I knew you wouldn't let me down in my moment of angst!!
You are right, my son is sports mad and knows enough about healthy eating to make his own decisions during his school day, peer pressure or not
but in the short term I will offer to make him a sandwich when doing my daughter's school lunch.
He says the refectory/canteen meals look fine so perhaps when he knows where his friends will be during a lunch break, he will feel confident enough to go to lunch on his own and meet up with others afterwards and not be Nellie No Mates.
Failing all of that, I am not going to interfere but will be buying clearasil in my weekly shop in anticipation of his healthy boy-ish skin looking the worse for wear in the coming weeks
Thanks again for all comments and suggestions
Ambridge x
You are right, my son is sports mad and knows enough about healthy eating to make his own decisions during his school day, peer pressure or not
but in the short term I will offer to make him a sandwich when doing my daughter's school lunch.He says the refectory/canteen meals look fine so perhaps when he knows where his friends will be during a lunch break, he will feel confident enough to go to lunch on his own and meet up with others afterwards and not be Nellie No Mates.
Failing all of that, I am not going to interfere but will be buying clearasil in my weekly shop in anticipation of his healthy boy-ish skin looking the worse for wear in the coming weeks
Thanks again for all comments and suggestions
Ambridge x
My ds has just started at an independant and thankfully his lunch is included in the fees. They have no choice they are not allowed to bring their own lunch from home but the selection is brilliant. They have a choice of cooked, light bites and panini's with a healthy dessert option too. They do have a tuck shop at break time but they have to use a swipe card which is topped up by the parents. He loves it and can't wait to see what's for lunch each day.
My eldest son went to local comp and I can remember him complaining about the queues at lunch times. He quite often wouldn't bother and always came home starving. There were over 1200 children at the school so I can imagine lunch times were a nightmare. If I sent him with a packed lunch that would always come home uneaten (apart from the crisps!). Big healthy evening meals and lots of nagging were how I dealt with it (nagging was a big waste of time). He's left school now and always eats lunch so no harm was done in the long term.
My eldest son went to local comp and I can remember him complaining about the queues at lunch times. He quite often wouldn't bother and always came home starving. There were over 1200 children at the school so I can imagine lunch times were a nightmare. If I sent him with a packed lunch that would always come home uneaten (apart from the crisps!). Big healthy evening meals and lots of nagging were how I dealt with it (nagging was a big waste of time). He's left school now and always eats lunch so no harm was done in the long term.
My son tells me the queues are too long to get a hot meal, so he gets a sandwich or a pizza in the shorter queue - I thought they might do a rota for lunches (as in primary) where the smallest eats first!
I am a bit worried he will eat pizza all term.
He seems okay with it, but I would prefer him to be able to get a hot meal when it gets very cold.
I am a bit worried he will eat pizza all term.
He seems okay with it, but I would prefer him to be able to get a hot meal when it gets very cold.
I would love for mine to have school lunch as I hate making packed lunches but the queues are so long that they take sandwiches. They also have a smart card each so that they can buy drinks or snacks when the queues have died down a bit. Both schools operate healthy eating policies and the food seems pretty good.
My son seems to have managed to eat pizza every day so far. He also seems to be trying to bankrupt me, as despite his whippet-like frame, the boy can eat and having endured years of my squashed jam sandwiches for lunch, is now making the most of the every item on the menu.
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Update on school lunches
Good news, since last Wednesday DS has asked for a proper packed lunch in a lunch box.
So I have been packing a ham sandwich, some fruit, squeezy yoghurt, some snacks and a large sports bottle of drink and yes, he does walk about eating it, transferring it from the lunch box into his blazer pockets and says he is the only one eating proper food, so a great result, and cheap for me...
However, it appears that queuing/paying for food in the canteen is still painfully slow which takes precious time away from socialising with the girls (my soldier, so young).
However, a neighbour tells me her daughter orders/pays for her lunch in advance at break time - but that is too organised for DS at the moment, but delighted that he has moved on and has a (small) mind of his own
Ambridge x
So I have been packing a ham sandwich, some fruit, squeezy yoghurt, some snacks and a large sports bottle of drink and yes, he does walk about eating it, transferring it from the lunch box into his blazer pockets and says he is the only one eating proper food, so a great result, and cheap for me...
However, it appears that queuing/paying for food in the canteen is still painfully slow which takes precious time away from socialising with the girls (my soldier, so young).
However, a neighbour tells me her daughter orders/pays for her lunch in advance at break time - but that is too organised for DS at the moment, but delighted that he has moved on and has a (small) mind of his own
Ambridge x
