What do you think of the healthy school meals. Do your children like them?

Question

My 7 year son can be fussy with his healthy meals.

Answer 1

When my son went to public school, they offered choices and most were healthy.

My friend who is the mother of 8 children, for whom I have tremendous respect, has a strict policy concerning meals and pickiness. I will pass along this unsolicited tidbit to you: She prepares healthy meals three times a day. If a child chooses not to eat those meals, the food is wrapped up and presented to him again at snack time, then at dinner time. How long do you suppose a child will go without eating? Not long, I assure you.

Your child has learnt pickiness because you offer too many choices, and give him alternatives to the family meal.

Answer 2

I think they are a fabulous idea, for some children it might be the only healthy food they get in a day.

My nephew's school does a sweet potato and lentil curry, the kids love it.

I think children should be introduced to healthy foods as soon as they are introduced to 'foods'.

The more you introduce a child to the more chance you will have of finding things they like.

Schools should persevere and not give in to parental and media pressure about children not liking healthy school meals.

I would rather my child had to eat something healthy than have the option of woolfing down some nasty fat sugar and salt laden processed option.

Answer 3

My kids take cold lunch every day. They are a bit picky but it is mainly because we would be paying $2.00 a day times 2 kids and I can pack them a healthy lunch for cheaper than that. Most of the kids I have seen when eating with my daughters throw 90% of it in the garbage, so how healthy is it for them if most of them do not eat it.

They also only have 20 minutes for lunch and the hot lunch kids spend at least half of that in line, it is crazy. That is another big reason my kids take cold lunch.

Answer 4

My son is on the school lunch program and every month the school sends out the calendar for the month of what they get for their lunches everyday in school. It is a very good program for my child and for the school. They offer healthy things to eat.

Nothing is Junk food on the menu. He usually gets milk or juice boxes, chicken nuggets, sandwiches, raisins, carrot sticks...My son rarely eats junk food either. He is skinny though, but his father is also skinny with a very high metabolism. Parents with lower incomes don't have to pay. or it is $20 dollars a month or as much as you can afford.

Answer 5

My children prefer the school lunches. They say they would rather have something different everyday than have me make a PB & J Sandwich with an apple and a juice. They try different things... they days that they HATE was it being served they get a snack as soon as they get in and eat GREAT dinners. . .

My oldest son will eat nothing GREEN. . . So either make his lunch or let him pick at wht they have to offer.... my pediatrician says - "kids get what they need". . .

Answer 6

My children used to eat school meals, but since they changed them to "healthy" options, they started to complain about them all the time and hardly ate any of it. Now the older one has gone to secondary, where he says the meals are good. but I finally gave up and the younger one takes a packed lunch to primary school, and I have to admit, the meals do sound horrible now.

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Answer 8

My 3 children never did subscribe to junk food, mostly because I taught them that it was an occasional treat and not the basis for a human diet.

I don't like judgemental people but I really have to say that rubbish food eaten by children is entirely because parents are lazy and indifferent to their children's health. I do have sympathy for families on low incomes...decent food is not cheap, but mostly this problem is because parents are lazy enough to think that their children should have what they like rather than what keeps them healthy.

Rant over...normal service resumed!

Answer 9

I think we should have healthy foods in our schools. At my school, the regular food is nasty. I prefer to pack my lunch with healthy and at least half good tasting stuff. The first person who answered had a really good answer !

Answer 10

So, let him be fussy.

The question isnt, "do they like healthy" the question is whats more important, children who have a greater life expectancy than their parents, or fat kids who like what they eat.

Thats like asking, "does your child like getting vaccinated, mine doesnt."

It doesnt matter, the goal is to preserve their lives and give them the best. School lunches are the obvious place to start.