Britains strictness Headmistress on food

[Alex]

And I love beetroot, not the pickled stuff the natural. I have some growing in my veggie patch. 

Me too  !

[Scrumpy]

I like beetroot.. Ready cooked..Not pickled and never a jar..
I noticed there is Beetroot in Chilli ..

[dextrous63]

Says the man who makes the bed but no say in the choice of duvet cover.... 

I'm transitioning.

[muddy]

Scrumps..."Butterscotch tart" will have a poignant meaning for some of us expats from OFF😉😬

June 25, 2024, 10:06:22 AMHave never recovered from being forced to eat beetroot at primary school.

It was mashed potato with me .
The mash was always luke  warm and had horrible grey lumps in it.
It quite literally made me throw up 🙁

[GrannyMac]

With me it was rice pudding . I just went without when it was on the menu.

Semolina for me.  Yuk.

[Mups]

Semolina for me.  Yuk.

Ooh yes,  I've never liked that either. 
It used to look all grey and lumpy at school, and sometimes they floated a spoonful of jam in the middle.

[dextrous63]

So, this marvellous headteacher who you all love would have done her best to berate you for not eating semolina, rice pudding, mashed potatoes and beetroot.

Is she really quite so great?

[Raven]

She was what I was used to growing up, I always tried things but if I didn't like anything I chose to go without, and hoped to hell it was something I liked for the next meal.
My Nana was great at letting me have a sneaky jam sandwich later on. 

[dextrous63]

The headmistress extraordinaire would have badmouthed your nanna.

[GrannyMac]

Sounds as though there are choices.  I'd have liked that school I think.  

https://michaela.education/home/secondary-school-wembley/family-lunch-wembley/

[ansu]

Some days ago I watched an interesting documentary on TV about, fat, fatter, fattest. Obviously it seems to be the sugar in our food that's contributing a lot. Mrs. Obama wanted to ensure that the food at American schools is healthier, but somehow she failed and instead she proposed that pupils should move more.
As to less sugar in drinks, no publicity for unhealthy food on TV etc. the UK is much more progressive  than Germany. The minister in charge of this (a green with Turkish roots) meets resistance everywhere.
When I was a child this topic wasn't interesting at all, because money was scarce and people were eating what was growing in their gardens.

[Ruthio]

Semolina for me.  Yuk.

Friday fish for me, I called it slishy fishy, made me heave.
My mum wrote a letter.
That did the trick!!

Quote from: dextrous63 on 25/06/2024, 18:29:27I'm transitioning.

Quick nurse, the screens!
I'll order some pills!! 🤣🤣

[dextrous63]

[muddy]

Some days ago I watched an interesting documentary on TV about, fat, fatter, fattest. Obviously it seems to be the sugar in our food that's contributing a lot. Mrs. Obama wanted to ensure that the food at American schools is healthier, but somehow she failed and instead she proposed that pupils should move more.
As to less sugar in drinks, no publicity for unhealthy food on TV etc. the UK is much more progressive  than Germany. The minister in charge of this (a green with Turkish roots) meets resistance everywhere.
When I was a child this topic wasn't interesting at all, because money was scarce and people were eating what was growing in their gardens.

The was a movement called the Edinburgh  mile by a school in Edinburgh ( or the Daily Mile ) where the pupils and teachers got up and ran around the school several times a day making up a mile .
I thought this was a good idea .  
https://thedailymile.co.uk