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Have any of you actually read the blog or just read the news story?



If you read the girls blog, it is very fair to be honest.

It is not a blog criticising her school dinners at all, it's a blog rating her school dinners on her own scoring system, taste, nutrition, no. of mouthfuls etc.



She also recieves comparisons from across the globe.



Quite a few of her ratings are rated as 10/10. To be honest she praises as many meals as she criticises.

It's obvious A&B council haven't read it either and have simply had a knee jerk reaction to a rag's headline.



At least they have decided they made a mistake and have allowed her to continue to take her pictures.

Well done A&B on being big enough to admit that they're in the wrong.



They'll learn more from the constructive criticism than from ignoring the girl

maybe the kids can ban the school from telling their parents how they are doing in class?



I think it's a great idea, all schools should encourage it, and the grading of lessons/learning outcomes, might shake a few people out of their comfy brogues!

I posted a link to the blog on the now defunct gay marriage thread - yeah I know it had buggerall to do with gay marriages but somehow it drifted onto school dinners, so yes, plenty of us have read the blog from the start.



As has been said, the council's ire should've been directed to pi[is[/is-poor reporting. What rag did it appear in BTW? I can hazard a guess at Sun, Star, Wail or Diana Express

Ah right, the main issue is some of these councils have remote locations and A&B along with Highlands have some of the most widespread locations in the country, is that they have to compete with the local chippy, fast food joint and burger van and it really wouldn't take a lot of defections to make a school lunch service unviable.



Also I think we have realised that the "you'll sit there till you've finished that" attitude has caused more problems that it cured.



Mind the way they work out the menus making every single meal nutritionally balanced rather than a balance across the week is bloody insane.

Do you care how petty this post makes you look?

Sorry - I'm afraid I don't know who you are.



Most of us here know Dally's record as a bigot. Clearly, as a newbie to the Sin Bin, you won't.



But anyway, welcome to the Bin.

Bigot I maybe but not to the degree of most on here. Furthermore, I don't resort to embarrassing, feeble-minded name-calling (except when others start it) in every serious thread when someone expresses a different to me.

Bigot I maybe but not to the degree of most on here. Furthermore, I don't resort to embarrassing, feeble-minded name-calling (except when others start it) in every serious thread when someone expresses a different to me.

Why does you knowing who I am matter on a public forum, or was that supposed to be a subtle dig?



On the rare occasion I read this section I remember Dally as a dissenting voice, of which I usually disagree. I'd take him over bullies like you though.

The fact that the children get quite a few choices for school dinners now seems to be something that a number of friends who are talking about this have mentioned, as well as on here. I find it utterly bizarre how many people seem to be of the "why do children get so many choices, we didn't" school of thought.



Surely it's a good thing that we're well by the days of "here's your meal, now eat it" regardless of what that meal was and the child's opinion of it? That kind of attitudes towards children and food just gives people life long issues. There's nothing to be proud of when little johnny had to sit at school dinners and eat the macaroni cheese because that was the days dinner when he simply threw it up afterwards.



Yes, some parents give their children too many choices. However surely if we want children to grow up with a healthy attitude to food then the best way to go about that is to give a little respect to the fact that there are some things that some people just won't like (and some days where you just want a snacky lunch and others you want a big lunch). Also there are some things that some cooks just can't make - I love macaroni cheese, alway have done, but to this day I have no idea what our school cook used to do with it. It was the most vile thing I've ever eater in my life. No good would have come of making that the only meal of the day.





The biggest problem with school dinners, imo, is the finance issue. Our local primary school has a huge certificate on the wall in the dining hall stating that their "catering manager" won the award for being the most efficient with her budget. She won a stonking prize for it as well. Personally I think the fact that she managed to save a couple of grand a year in food should see her hauled over the coals because she did it by serving crap food, smaller portions and, most ridiculously, running out of hot food before the end of the serving leaving children with no choice but sandwiches in the midst of winter.