Six-year-old schoolboy suspended for having Mini Cheddars in his lunchbox...

[Redz]

We had three colours of custard when I was at school

The range of puddings encouraged healthy eating because nobody ate tapioca or semolina ever again.

I can't get chocolate pudding with green mint custard out of my mind now.

 

[anything I don't mind]

first time i have seen that bag of lightly salted doritos this is what i know as doritos.

Corn (Whole Maize Kernels),Sunflower Oil (14%) ,Rapeseed Oil ,Chilli Heatwave Flavour [Sugar, Flavourings (contains SOYA, WHEAT), Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'Ribonucleotide), SOY SAUCE POWDER (contains SOYA BEANS, WHEAT), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Diacetate), Salt, Potassium Chloride, HYDROLYSED SOYA PROTEIN, Colours (Sulphite Ammonia Caramel, Paprika Extract, Beetroot Powder), Citric Acid, Malic Acid] ,Rapeseed Oil ,Contains: Wheat, Gluten, Soya ,Made in a factory that also handles: Milk, Barley, Celery, Mustard

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=258238738

Potatoes,Sunflower Oil (25%) ,Rapeseed Oil ,Cheese & Onion Seasoning ,Cheese & Onion Seasoning contains: Dried Onion, Salt, Dried MILK Whey, Dried MILK Lactose, Sugar, Flavourings, Somerset Cheddar Cheese Powder (from MILK), Dried Garlic, Colours (Paprika Extract, Annatto) ,Allergy advice: See capitalised ingredients ,Made in a factory that also handles: Wheat, Gluten, Barley, Soya, Celery, Mustard

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=259738773

Never ate lightly salted crisps and i don't get the obsession with salt and vinegar either *puke*

Potato (Potato Starch & Dried Potato),Sunflower Oil (26%) ,Rice Flour ,Barbecue Beef Flavour [Natural Flavourings, Salt, Rice Flour, Dried Whey, Dried Onion, Potassium Chloride, Sugar, Dried Tomato, Maltodextrin, Colour: Paprika Extract, Dried Yeast Extract] ,Maize Flour ,Natural Flavouring (contains Potassium Chloride, Salt, Maltodextrin, Dried Onion, Vegetable Oil, Dried Yeast Extract) ,Salt

Hula hoops is what i usually eat but beef flavoured cheddars also. Not the cheese. I prefer than walker crisp or other crisp.

 

[cheesyboy]

Never ate lightly salted crisps and i don't get the obsession with salt and vinegar either *puke*

If you're aiming for healthy (you've suggested you eat mini cheddars for their health effects), then you should really try ready salted as an alternative. It's the only way to avoid the junk in other crisp-type snacks.

And those Walkers Cheese & Onion are les bad for you than cheddars anyway

 

[Castiel]

Actually the way your body metabolises fruit sugars doesn't cause the massive insulin spikes that is caused by poor refined carbohydrates/sugars.

This is what people don't understand. It isn't just about calories, but the way your body processes and uses those calories.

 

[anything I don't mind]

No i don't eat mini cheddars because they fit some ideal of "healthy" I eat mini cheddar and hula hoops because they have no artificial ingredients like msg and i like the taste of them. I don't like plain crisps with just potato and salt and if i go for doritos or other flavoured crisps then they usually have msg and i avoid HFCS, aspartame and a Acesulfame K. But you don't often find those in crisps. To me healthy is about avoiding synthesised sweeteners and artificial flavours. Having sugar or high calories is not something that i am concerned about.

 

[Burnsy2023]

To me healthy is about avoiding synthesised sweeteners and artificial flavours.

Why? The evidence that these are safe is overwhelming.

 

[adolf hamster]

I can't get chocolate pudding with green mint custard out of my mind now.

damnit, thanks to you neither can i, sounds lovely, i remember they stopped doing chocolate custard at my school because nobody liked it. i ascribe this to everyone but me in the school being weird

 

[Freefaller]

No healthy means avoiding highly processed and refined foods.

 

[Akagi]

What... The ****...

They're not even the most unhealty of crisps.

 

[anything I don't mind]

I think artificial sweeteners that have led to increase in obesity and all the sugar from fizzy drinks. I would understand banning fizzy drinks at a school, but mini cheddar? that's just taking it too far. I remember buying a chocolate at school tuck box or a doughnut was a great fun. I bet you could still find unhealthy drinks for sale. I bet they feed all the children milk and cheap fruit juice then moan about mini cheddar.

Do you realy want to take that joy away from children?

 

[agnes]

Can't help but hear the typical rag song.

The parents are probably a piece of work. The school was sick of them, so excluded the children.

Blame the parents, not the school.

Typical rag nonsense, find the one silly part of the big picture, make it the headline.

 

[Castiel]

No healthy means avoiding highly processed and refined foods.

You don't even have to avoid them altogether...just eat everything in moderation and ensure a balanced and active lifestyle and bobs your uncle.

 

[Burnsy2023]

I think artificial sweeteners that have led to increase in obesity

Based on what?

 

[Burnsy2023]

No healthy means avoiding highly processed and refined foods.

Nope, healthy means giving your body what it needs without defincency or excess.

 

[dannyjo22]

However, when you have someone like dannyjo22 putting in a rare cocolate covered cereal bar into a lunchbox (perhaps needed for a swimming lesson later),.

I don't put chocolate in his lunch box ever. I put nakd bars in which are nothing but:

Made with Dates (49%), Cashews (31%), Raisins (17%), Raspberries (3%), natural flavour

Pressed together not baked

http://www.naturalbalancefoods.co.uk/nakd-fruit-and-nut-bars/

 

[Pestilence]

Why? The evidence that these are safe is overwhelming.

Indeed. There really is no need to avoid additives such as MSG unless you have a proven sensitivity or intolerance.

It's like saying just because there are people who have serious nut allergies, you will never touch nuts because they're no good for you.

 

[Freefaller]

You don't even have to avoid them altogether...just eat everything in moderation and ensure a balanced and active lifestyle and bobs your uncle.

Indeed. As long as the poor food is the exception to the rule rather than the other way round.

I love a doughnut from time to time or a cake, or even some chips. But I can count the occasions I eat naughty foods on one hand. I actually don't really crave them as I've learned that they are a one off bit of fun, and actually prefer nuts, fruits, and other things over something which is nutritionally poor.

Nope, healthy means giving your body what it needs without defincency or excess.

Indeed, by avoiding poor nutritional foods - which is what I said, so in fact you've agreed with me

 

[dannyjo22]

Based on what?

I have read a few times lately that they now think artificial sweeteners make you crave sugar more because your body thinks you are about to get the hit but it doesn't come.

Of course I don't know anything of the science behind that only that I have read it a few times lately.

 

[linktoinsanity]

There must be more to this story than meets the eye.

If the child has been expelled for having Mini-Cheddars in his lunch box and that's it then that's just ridiculous. The school is there to teach students subjects, not dictate to them what they can and cannot eat.

 

[Castiel]

I don't put chocolate in his lunch box ever. I put nakd bars in which are nothing but:

Made with Dates (49%), Cashews (31%), Raisins (17%), Raspberries (3%), natural flavour

Pressed together not baked

http://www.naturalbalancefoods.co.uk/nakd-fruit-and-nut-bars/

Some of those bars can be quite high in fat and carbs however. Chocolate is not bad for your kids..as long as it is in moderation and as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle overall. In fact chocolate has a decent amount of nutritional value especially in high calorie burning lifestyles, which many kids have.

Good link though....I'll use that.