School lunches in uk

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Have the gov stopped serving school lunches in UK?

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No they have not.

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My grandson has quite a wide variety of menus to choose from… well, his Mum marks what the choice is… on the paper he brings home.

I think there is talk of finishing Free school meals…

These were available when I was little… no-one “noticed” that some got it free and some didn’t… we were just kids getting on with “life” as best we could. … and I loved cabbage, so I was everyone’s friend at lunchtime… :grinning::grinning:

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My favourite was cheese and potato pie. There was always “second helpings” and I had second helpings of second helpings…:yum::yum::yum: This was in 1944.

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I can only remember the cabbage (delicious) from junior school, but then we had Chocolate Crunch later in life… fantastic…once every term…:hugs:

I have never managed to cook anything remotely as good as that… :relaxed:

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My immediate reaction Stella would have been poor you…but my school meals were awful.

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If the gov stop school meals then they really must stop their lavish lunches
and their bouzy dinners.

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School meals weren’t really that bad…nothing like home-cooked of course… but they were hot…very important in winter months…

And, on getting home, we always had a filling Tea… bread and butter with cheese, jams… apples/fruit from the trees… and Mum generally made a delicious sponge cake or pudding… yummy.

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so you lived in the country side?

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chocolate crunch with pink custard that was a favourite of mine.
My mother couldn’t cook, still can’t, so school dinners were wonderful.

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My mother was not a good cook but she did cook sometimes as a job.

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Junior School: we lived in a coastal town and walked the 2 miles to school each day… I’m sure that’s what kept us so fit and healthy… :grinning:

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We provide free school meals for all the FS1 and FS2 children and I believe that there were plans to extend the system. I think that now the Government is cutting back. Those children with a real need for free meals will continue to get them.

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that is good.

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Have to say that I loathed school meals.

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I’ll second that…and as for the cabbage🤮

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cabbage as a kid…hated it.

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I loved cheese pie. Our next door neighbour worked as a dinner lady and used to bring it home for me as it was so unpopular there was always loads left! That was in the 70s.

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I can’t remember one good thing about school dinners…I hated all veg and especially cabbage…I still have a love hate relationship with many vegetables even now…desserts were sometimes better if the custard didn’t have lumps in it…Bizarrely I always associate my freedom from school dinners with mull of Kintyre…!