School Dinners.

[glallotments]

We didn't have a choice either and we weren't allowed to refuse or to leave anything- the choices came during the time I was teaching and basically led to the food becoming 'child friendly' i.e more junky!

[Primrose]

I wonder how many other people often feel as guilty as I do when I see the huge amount of food choices available in our supermarkets today. It's nice to have it all, but is it really necessary for our health as a nation? As Johnboy as said, we were much healthier as a nation during the war because our fat intake was severely limited and whilst I still occasionally indulge myself with a thick splurge of butter on my breakfast toast I mostly still adopt the meagre scraping which was indoctrinated into me as a child when I remember my mother scraping the occasional butter paper wrapper she'd been given by our local grocer as a freebie extra to her ration. (That would yield an extra ounce of butter for a few minutes' effort). It's difficult to imagine now that a windfall like that during wartime would have been worth its weight in gold to somebody trying to feed a hungry family. I often recall those steaming pots of lentil soup when I came home from school or the trays of bread pudding my mother would make, which contained as many sultanas as she could spare from her precious "points" rations.

[Elaine]

Hi Primrose and Chantal

I am obviously not alone regarding what I thought the Turkey twizzlers looked like.....I thought it might be my over-active imagination!

People actually buy and eat this muck?????

Cheers!

[Shallot Man]

Johnboy. You've got me going, the smell of mums stockpot on the go as you walked in the kitchen door, everthing went into this pot, as time went by it developet a crust on the bottom of the pot, if you was in favour, you got some of this crust on an end of a loaf.

[glallotments]

Hi Primrose and Chantal

I am obviously not alone regarding what I thought the Turkey twizzlers looked like.....I thought it might be my over-active imagination!

People actually buy and eat this muck?????

Cheers!

I don't know if they buy them but they were used for school dinners!

[glallotments]

I wonder how many other people often feel as guilty as I do when I see the huge amount of food choices available in our supermarkets today.

Did you see the programme? - I think it was Jimmy's Food Factory -where they showed a huge heap of bananas that has been discarded by the supermarkets. Many were perfect. They were using them as fuel to heat a greenhouse in which was growing tomatoes.

[Westi]

I saw that on tele - firstly was horrified that these were
thrown out in perfect condition when they could be given
to the poor or a soup kitchen. Then I felt better that they
weren't totally wasted then angry that the end product was
for out of season tomatoes that again would be expensive and
again a lot thrown out in fairly good condition.

And how green is it when you add on the banana boat travel
across thousands of miles? All these conundrums always spark
a big debate in our house adn I change sides so much never
really finish with a clear winner.

Westi