Re: More Government Meddling.
Willow, wouldn't it be a dull world if everyone was the same stick thin shape....? And isn't it a very shallow person who will judge you on what you look like......Every single person has a right to feel valid......and these comments that were made can only make you feel LESS valid if you take notice of them. There is much danger in trying to artificially regulate what children eat.....the next news we will be reading will be about teenage girls and eating disorders......and the governemnt will then start to put their brains...well, the few they have....into trying to legislate against that problem too.
When I said about playing fields having disappeared.....well, Moorhead is one of the lucky schools to still have theirs.....lots of schools have lost their playing fields. Few schools still have kitchens.....although that shouldn't be a drawback to hot, healthy cooked meals. These could be done in a central kitchen and transported in Temperature controlled environments....that is how it was done when I was at school.
Like you, when I was at school, because I was from a large(poor) family we got free school meals. I have to say I enjoyed the school dinners, as during the week it was often the only hot meal I received. There was only one choice of school dinner.....you either ate it or went hungry. We got water to drink, both at home and in school. In winter we got cocoa before we went to bed.
I also enjoyed the Cookery lessons at school.....and although it wasn't saddled with the fancy name of 'Food Technology' we did learn the basic facts about a good balanced diet.
I do believe it was easier to eat healthily when we were younger.....there wasn't the same choice of fast food.....and fish and chips from the chippy were a rarity.
I did however, have a 4d bag of scraps from the chippy after I had been to Accy baths....very good they were too!
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Last edited by Margaret Pilkington; 30-09-2005 at 19:57.
Reason: sausage fingers....oops!
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