Yes daddies cook too, but generally in my house, I’m the ‘Meals on Wheels’.The School Meals Programme is targeted at disadvantaged schools, with scrumptious dinners provided from 2024.
Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys said the plan is for all school kids to get one meal a day by 2030.But the initiative needs to be in all schools, otherwise less fortunate kids will feel stigmatised.I would welcome it if the Minister moved faster to apply free meals for all kids.It’s impossible to ban healthy snacks, so it’s hard to get them to eat their full dinner.Children are hungry at midday, which will be the exact time a school dinner will be plated up.
Even though I’m a personal trainer and a nutrition fanatic it’s not always easy to get our kids on board to eat healthily.Upcycling the simple oats by encouraging the girls to do blueberry faces helps. No matter how many articles I read on jazzing up lunch boxes, filling them with good stuff is a nightmare.Hit primary school and lunch becomes a case of ‘keeping up with the Joneses.”
My little girl who’s six will not eat the gut healthy yoghurt I give her because they aren’t the cute pots with the smiley face her mate gets.I’ll never forget my own mam giving me egg and onion sambos.A set school lunch will make all kids equal in the eating stakes.