What do you think of the mothers who are delivering junk food to thier children at school?

Answer 1

Are they fit people to be bringing up children?

Clearly, these parents need educating, and the school needs to get across its healthy eating policy to the parents.

Answer 2

From what I read, and I can't remember where, not all the food was 'junk', some children were ordering jacket potatoes etc. As for my own children I am all for healthy eating but my daughter is having a problem at primary school as the cook has little imagination and the choices are limited. She was offered cheese & egg flan or fish pie the other day. She doesn't like cheese too much so didn't want that and the fish pie - which she would have liked - turned out to have salmon in it. So she ended up just eating the potato from the top of the fish pie and some veg etc. Not a good meal for a growing 9yr old. Eating healthy is all very well but the choices have to be there. Imagine if you went to your work canteen and had a choice of two meals, neither of which you liked. You'd soon be complaining! I think this is the problem at this school, they have maybe changed the menu too drastically too soon and are not providing enough good quality choices. Thankfully not a problem at my son's high school.

Answer 3

We live in a very strange culture. Mothers are encouraged to reject their young children and pass them into the care of poorly qualified strangers whilst they grind away at a poorly paid job. Mums return home too knackered to cook properly and so do the obvious thing.
Secondary schools have been interfered with so much that the skills of cooking are no longer properly taught – even if mum was at home to look after her children she would have no idea how to prepare a meal from fresh ingredients.
We have cultivated several generations that haven’t a clue about diet and nutrition (just scan some of the daft questions – especially about ‘diets’ – on this site). We should not be surprised that these ‘railings rebels’ feel that they have to slowly kill their kids by feeding them an atrocious diet; the children are junk food junkies.
Children are incapable of making good choices. Would they choose an apple or a chocolate bar, a baked potato or portion of chips, fruit salad and plain live yogurt or a plastic pot of dessert product (of artificial colour) with cute cartoons on the packaging? Why give them that choice?
The ‘railings rebels’ are both ignorant and guilty of pandering to their children’s demands against all reliable advice.

Answer 4

I think their irresponsible. If there is not enough choice in the school then fine, bring the kids healthy alternatives to what is being offered on school premises but to bring in junk food that is obviously going to be preferred by kids over the healthy option is just ridiculous. If it were my children they were peddling their junk foods too I would be really unhappy with them and the school. I'm all for food choices but whilst children are in someones care (ie. the school) they should be given the healthy alternatives. If the parents decide that they'll take their kids out for Pizza one night for dinner then fine. At least they'll have had one decent meal a day.

Answer 5

What ignorant fools! I've just finished my degree and I was so interested in this subject that I chose it for my final year project. I think that the reason is, that parents get stressed about feeding their children, are they eating enough?, are they happy? etc... They don't want to feed them things that they don't like. (possible links to natural maternal/paternal instincts)

We are living in a convenience society, where you have a fight to find any food that isn't played with. Un-healthy food is marketed as healthy. Food that is marketed directly at children is un-healthy, like Ribena triples a child's RDA for sugar!! So parents don't want to feel like kill joys or just don't have the energy for yet another battle over food, and they give in. Sad but true. I don't think you can really blame the parents until the whole of society thinks about the absolutely ridiculous situation we have created about food!

You can tell that there is a problem when the British lettuce you buy in a British supermarket has been to Africa and back to be packaged and washed!! Yes washed in poor peoples small and depleting water supply!!

Answer 6

I agree with Histrel,

The food at school now for my eight year old is absolutely awful, healthy eating is not all about eating salads, fish pie.

Its setting a balance..now if a child will not eat what is deemed as healthy..is this healthy..leaving a poor child to starve all day and get depressed...no it is not...so now I give her a packed lunch.

I would not go to the school and provide a junk dinner through the school railings..she takes it to school with her, saves me a trip..

Answer 7

Well i think there all a joke my sister works in a primary school and its all gone healthy eating since a yr ago,the kids have change a hell of alot,work and behaviour wise,its so much better for them then eating all that crap,they should be asammed off them selfs and obviously they dont care about there kids and there health,sad really.

Answer 8

I don't think it's a good idea. They can give them junk food when they get home after school if they want to.

Answer 9

I would rather my child ate healthily, if the children do not like the meals that the school are preparing . What is the point in wasting their money. I would congratulate the mothers enterprise, Surely the children are better eating something.

Answer 10

I think it is wrong ,if they break this rule how many more are they going to break ,we have such a lack of discipline as it is,our children are getting fatter and they don`t get half enough exercise ,listen to her sitting at her laptop!