A Question For All The Parents
Apr 30th 2008, 6:41 pm
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Re: A Question For All The Parents
My neighbour and I share driving the kids, every day hers go to the refrigerator in the garage and take a 'lunchable'* each for school - it's starting to make me feel ill.
*a box containg very salty nachos, salsa, fake cheese, a mini-chocolate bar and a 'Capri-Sun' drink which is mostly sugar.
*a box containg very salty nachos, salsa, fake cheese, a mini-chocolate bar and a 'Capri-Sun' drink which is mostly sugar.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
Apr 30th 2008, 6:43 pm
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My boys are becoming more american each day with their speech and sayings but we do like to teach them the odd Yorkshire thing now and again. The latest my 4 year old has learnt is Shut your Clacker! 
Apr 30th 2008, 6:43 pm
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Cheeseburgers, corn dogs, waffles and syrup (since when has this been a main dish?) and pizza are all featured on a weekly basis. My son goes full days next year and will be taking a packed lunch!
Apr 30th 2008, 6:43 pm
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My youngest has a friend who seems to exist on pizza and pop tarts.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
Apr 30th 2008, 6:45 pm
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that school should watch Jamie Oliver's School Dinners programme. I can't pretend that the food in the schools he visited was any better but he did manage to change it all.
Apr 30th 2008, 6:46 pm
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My youngest has a friend who seems to exist on pizza and pop tarts.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
Apr 30th 2008, 6:48 pm
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It doesn't bother me. I cook from scratch every day and over the years I have found things that are fast. If something takes longer than an hour I will still make it because I enjoy cooking.
I come from a long line of cooks...my mum, aunts, grandmas all cooked, preserved, pickled etc so it's just something I've always done and been surrounded by.
One of my elderly aunts used to be the cook in a big house in Yorkshire...a bit like Upstairs, Downstairs if anyone remembers that apart from me! She tells lovely stories about her life and all the things she cooked.
I come from a long line of cooks...my mum, aunts, grandmas all cooked, preserved, pickled etc so it's just something I've always done and been surrounded by.
One of my elderly aunts used to be the cook in a big house in Yorkshire...a bit like Upstairs, Downstairs if anyone remembers that apart from me! She tells lovely stories about her life and all the things she cooked.
There was a Jamie Oliver style movement to get organic lunches into schools here in Chicago last year but it sadly fell by the wayside because nobody would support it. My daughter will just have to make do with brown bagging it I'm afraid!
(I also saw a British toddler drinking a Red Bull in his buggy in Spain a couple of years ago...)
Apr 30th 2008, 6:50 pm
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My youngest has a friend who seems to exist on pizza and pop tarts.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
I'm sure mine eat it all when they are out but I can live with that.
The thing that does amaze me here is the amount of soda everyone drinks, even old people! I can't remember seeing old grannies drinking coke where I lived in the UK.
Apr 30th 2008, 6:51 pm
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On my son's first day in Kindergarten we walked to school with a neighbour's 4th grader, who couldn't wait to tell my son about the school meals and how they make you puke!
Apr 30th 2008, 6:51 pm
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I also love to cook but I don't get in the door from work until after 6pm and my daughter needs to be in bed by 8.30pm. My mother stayed home with us and we still got oven chips and frozen burgers every night of the week so being a working mother isn't the issue.
There was a Jamie Oliver style movement to get organic lunches into schools here in Chicago last year but it sadly fell by the wayside because nobody would support it. My daughter will just have to make do with brown bagging it I'm afraid!
(I also saw a British toddler drinking a Red Bull in his buggy in Spain a couple of years ago...)
There was a Jamie Oliver style movement to get organic lunches into schools here in Chicago last year but it sadly fell by the wayside because nobody would support it. My daughter will just have to make do with brown bagging it I'm afraid!
(I also saw a British toddler drinking a Red Bull in his buggy in Spain a couple of years ago...)
Apr 30th 2008, 6:53 pm
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Now I think about it I think my gran did like a little glass of coke now and then, although it had to be flat already as she couldn't do with the bubbles! She would only buy it when we visited but if we didn't finish it she'd polish it off. Same goes for the choc ices!
Apr 30th 2008, 6:54 pm
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Now I think about it I think my gran did like a little glass of coke now and then, although it had to be flat already as she couldn't do with the bubbles! She would only buy it when we visited but if we didn't finish it she'd polish it off. Same goes for the choc ices!
I don't think my Mum has ever drunk a soda.