https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:14:44 +0000 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:36:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=8213 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159789&title=tuck-shops#159789 Author: Sarah Beth
Subject: 8213
Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:36am

My only concern is that tuck shops in a lot of schools have the proceeds going to the school, if healthy options are substituted and then the tuck shop no longer used that will cause a dent in the amount of money a school obtains from the sales and schools have enough problems with budgets etc as it is]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:36:20 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159789&title=tuck-shops#159789 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159771&title=tuck-shops#159771 Author: nuttymama
Subject: 8213
Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:19am

Sorry ramble, ramble. And a little off topic.

Just to contradict myself here maybe they shouldn't be selling hot chips everyday at school just once a week.

What I don't like is every child is now treated as obese or at the very least a probable obese!

Education needs to come from home as i said at the school meeting it comes down to parents first then the kids!!!

Ok I'm stopping now

]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:19:56 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159771&title=tuck-shops#159771 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159769&title=tuck-shops#159769 Author: nuttymama
Subject: 8213
Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:14am

Ideally I think they should offer a good variety of both. Simply because (we have been going over this with the boys school) Kids need to learn to make healthy choices themselves not have it forced upon them.

There are not always going to be adults around to tell these kids what to eat so they need to learn to make the right choices on their own. As far as it being the only healthy meal these kids might have, they will just go somewhere else and still miss out on what they need.

I don't think it will do anything towards obesity at all, and it feels like yet another way the government are telling us what we can and can't do with our children!

At the boys school they have a one treat policy in lunch boxes treats include:

Chocolate muesli bars
cake
biscuits
roll ups
Strings
Chips

And chocolate, lollies and fizzy are banned

And this was working well until some teachers went on power trips and started adding:

Jam
Nutella
Boston buns
Le Snacks
THe list goes on!

They were also checking lunch boxes and taking food out!!So we as parents had to ask them toback off a little as kids were getting scared about taking lunch to school.

You have to encourage healthy eating but at the same time make children responsible for their choices. I now give the kids a choice about what to put in there lunch boxes and have been really surprised by their choices. We have a green pile an orange pile and a red pile. They are so eager to make the right choices they very rarely ever want to things from the red pile. And I have no complaints about what's in their boxes.

]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:14:10 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159769&title=tuck-shops#159769 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159768&title=tuck-shops#159768 Author: lizzle
Subject: 8213
Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:10am

yeah, those meat pies are foul! but we have the most gorgeous sandwiches at the tuckshop. healthy and soooo nice! I'd like to see soup for winter. It's cheap and warming.

I don't like the thought of teachers being "food police" though. Enough on the plate without trying to tell people "oh, you shouldn't have that at school" - unless it's gum or booze or somthing. ]]> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:10:32 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159768&title=tuck-shops#159768 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159705&title=tuck-shops#159705 Author: daikini
Subject: 8213
Posted: 12 June 2007 at 10:32pm

Oh, Nat said the other day that some of the new stuff the college tuck shop is offering now tastes like cardboard! He said that healthy options are only any good if they actually taste good... and that most schools already have a healthy food policy in place, so the possibility of legislation isn't going to do much.]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:32:45 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159705&title=tuck-shops#159705 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159704&title=tuck-shops#159704 Author: daikini
Subject: 8213
Posted: 12 June 2007 at 10:31pm

Both the college and the primary are bringing in healthy food options here... the primary has been consulting on it for the last year, and they created a set menu that was put in place at the start of the term. Didn't affect us much - Kiya very rarely buys her lunch, as it is a treat... and she's brought home stuff from school before because the teacher has told her that it's a "at home" food!

The college started their healthy food policy from the start of the term as well... I was at the school the first day for some random reason, and the Food & Nutrition (sp?) teacher went and helped in the tuck shop that lunchtime so that K didn't get lots of abuse from the students! M took the blame deliberately, because she knew the students wouldn't go off at her.]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:31:07 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159704&title=tuck-shops#159704 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159703&title=tuck-shops#159703 Author: fattartsrock
Subject: 8213
Posted: 12 June 2007 at 10:29pm

I think its a great idea, for some kids, it will be the only healthy meal they get!]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:29:52 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159703&title=tuck-shops#159703 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159625&title=tuck-shops#159625 Author: busymum
Subject: 8213
Posted: 12 June 2007 at 8:59pm

I think it's a good idea but IMO it should be up to the parents to teach that stuff, not the schools.... but then I always get stuck on the question of, if the parents won't, who will? ]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:59:31 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159625&title=tuck-shops#159625 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159604&title=tuck-shops#159604 Author: lizzle
Subject: 8213
Posted: 12 June 2007 at 8:50pm

The government is preparing a proposal that will ban "junk food" in school canteens. personally I think this is fantastic. as schools, we should be educating children, and providing the best food choices for lunch is part of that. Sure, kids will bring in other foods, and that their choice, but i think schools should be setting this healthy example.

i also don't think this will stop obesitiy, but i think it is a step in the right direction. what does everyone else think? listengin to the radio this morning, most people thought it was a stupid idea.]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:50:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8213&PID=159604&title=tuck-shops#159604