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Worth the money or not? I am now spending £18.50 a week now both are at school. Eldest loves school dinners and now they have started to be made on the premises they are supposed to be of good quality. However I remember my school dinners years ago !! Yuk lol

Also something else I'd like to know is how much packed lunches cost parents per week and what you find to put in there to make them healthy and interesting? Just want to keep all my options open. ta xx

How Much.

Muffy call in the school and ask for the menu it should be 4 weeks rolling and there should be at least 3 choices a day on it...

£1.85 a day Bellblair. xx


Hayley I've seen the menu it's displayed in the school reception area. Looks ok. Some days it's a bit too spicy in my opinion but overall healthy enough. I think. Though little one was most put out last Monday when she only got given an apple for pudding !!! I have to say I thought it was a bit of a cop out too xx

Thank god my lot have left school now.
It is making me feel very old used to be 50p

Dinner ladies have had a big payrise thanks to Jamie bless his cotton sox...

Bellblair, shhhhhhhhhh, I remember them being sixpence, then a shilling, then 1/6d

2 1/2p--5p then 71/2 p oh my am I that old ? lol

Marion

wonders what marion is on about....lol

I sound about 100 yr old pmsl

my daughter has school dinners
but only coz she eats like a mouse ,
and i know she will eat it coz she will want to go out and play after , but she dont like them lol
but our school is so restriced as to what they can and cant have in their packed lunch i cant be bothered , our dinners work out to £32.00 a month x
Rosex

Pretty similar in price to ours then Rose.

I'm the same. The packed lunch box police kick out a tiny fairy cake but allow them to have sponge and custard for their pudding on school dinners!!! The worlds gone crazy.!!! xx

My friends children have packed lunches and my friend bought some sausage rolls and froze then .
well she gave em to her kids for their packed launch and the dinnerlady took the sausage roll from the girls, she said they was out of date the eldest girl said but they have been frozen and are ok .
all the girls ended up with was a yogurt digestive bicci and a peperonie lol
yes the mother did go mad
Rosex

Marion that what I paid for my kids I can remember taking shilling dinner money very monday morning.

Tiddlers are £8.00 a week so £1.60 a day. She is a fussy eater but this way she will eat them and when she was in nursery they were gven a school lunch so have kept her on them this year.

Laddo just gone to secondary and has a packed lunch cos he is fussy beyond belief cos his taste and smell senses are heightened. Mind you he still has a dinner card and goes to the cafe after his sandwiches and gets more food, no womder he is putting on so much weight

I would ask your school if your child could have school dinners on certain days and packed lunched the rest. I know quite a few children at our school do this so if there are days when they don`t like the dinner they fetch their packed lunch. If you got a copy of the menu`s you would know whats served on what day.

Yvonne

Im a catering assistant in a school & the dinners are quite nice, but as some1 else has said at times too spicy.
We work on minimum wage & thanks to jamie oliver, we r overworked! All our food is cooked fresh every day on the premises. I start at 7 a.m & finish at 2.30 without a tea break as we dont have time. No dinner break either. I am on the go from the time i get to work to the minute i walk out.
Our meals cost £1.60 & for that the pupils get a main meal & a dessert The yr 7s have a lunchcard where the parents put £30 a month on the card and they can only use it at lunchtime. They have to have extra money for break. I think the food is too expensive & its getting harder to think of things they can have for break bcos of this healthy eating plan. We are only allowed to serve chips once a week, burgers every 2 weeks, no cakes or biscuits at break but they r ok to sell at lunch, but they can have pizza everyday & garlic bread, plain or with cheese!
No cereal bars, no fizzy drinks, no vending machines! I thought we lived in a free country where we can choose to eat wot we like?
The government & Jamie bloody Oliver have a lot to answer for!!!!!
& NO! We havent had a pay rise!

We had our dinner ticket's, some got free meals. My mum allthough very hard up, didn't want us going free lol

Rosie.
When my youngest was in junior school, she got her lunch box out & a dinner lady told her off cos she had a chocolate mini roll in there. My daughter was most upset & as she was very shy, wanted to come home for lunch. Instead, i put a note in her box saying - 'To whom it may concern. When u pay for my daughters lunch, u can say wot goes into her lunchbox. Until then, kepp it SHUT!!'
She wasnt told off again!!!!

Good for you Shymo !!!

And thanks for your insight into the school dinners situation.

I would guess there's a lot of mums out there like me paying over the odds for a quiet life.

As you say Jamie Oliver has a lot to answer for ! xx

Rosie, as a catering assistant myself, I and the "girls" I work with would never take anything from a child's packed lunch saying it wasn't in date, that is not part of our job and if I was the mother of the child concerned I would be speaking to the catering manager and the head teacher.
Tricia