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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:03 am ]
Post subject:  School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11154244

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School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey for the School Food Trust has suggested.

Researchers found that four out of five children in England who ate school lunches had tried food at school that they had not tried at home.

Half of parents questioned said their children had asked for foods they had eaten at school to be cooked at home.

The survey, of about 1,000 parents, found the most popular vegetables were carrots, sweetcorn and peas.

Aubergine, chickpeas and spinach were among the least popular.

Of the parents questioned, 628 had children who ate school lunches.
Author:  HeatherKay [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
Amnesia10 wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11154244

Quote:
Aubergine, chickpeas and spinach were among the least popular.


I can understand that. Blech.

School dinners actually gave me a lifelong hatred of salad. It was a once-a-week meal at primary school, and they forced you to eat it. I was happy with the cold meat, the mashed potato, grated carrot and stuff, but when they dumped salad cream on everything, and a dollop of beetroot, that was it. I could not eat it, and the thought still makes me feel queasy forty years on.

Maybe I should get some counselling and therapy, and sue Surrey County Council for childhood trauma...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
I quiet liked school dinners except for the rhubarb and gooseberry. Still hate them.
Author:  rustybucket [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
HeatherKay wrote:
...salad...

...cold meat...

...mashed potato...

...grated carrot...

...salad cream...

...beetroot...

::shudder::

:x
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
School dindins gave me a lifetime hatred of green beans, broadbeans and tinned tomatoes. I refuse to eat any of these. We used to be told we couldn't leave the table until we had cleaned our plates.
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
I use to love school dinners when I was at school. That was until a new dinner lady forced me to eat a fresh tomato. Which was extremely allergic to, thus within 20 minutes my throat was swelling up, breathing became very laboured and white lumps were forming all over my skin. On the plus side I got the rest of the week off from school and the dinner lady got the sack!! On the downside I became full of holes as the doctor was called and injected me with "stoof" to sort me out.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: School meals 'help fussy children try new foods'
I can recall enjoying Spam fritters when I was about 5.
These days... I can taste the bile in the back of my mouth...
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