Blogging 3# by Carl Boniface - MAIN SITE

In 1975 my school dinners weren’t bad, and it was nonsense to go to the bakery to buy a couple of white crispy crusted rolls, but I did. In my later teen years you’d often find me scooping out the soft dough and then stuffing them with chicken flavored crisps.  Oh it was a real tasty lunch; no goodness while full of dead calories.

I used to club my weekly dinner money, £1.25 ($1.78) together with my pocket money and part time salary from working in a bakery on Saturdays, and then scoff other kids’ homemade sandwiches that I bought during classes for a premium cost. At lunch time I would carry out my ritual behavior and by Wednesday or Thursday I’d be penniless. On Fridays and sometimes Thursdays I’d resort to pinching some goodies at the local sweat shop.

The point is we are what we eat and although I’m not trying to unsettle anyone by stating the obvious, it’s difficult to get the point across to kids of any age, let alone adolescence. We all know too well that we ought to eat lean meat for protein, wholegrain foods like brown rice for slow release carbohydrates, plenty of vegetables and fruits for roughage, vitamins and minerals, and salads to keep the calories away, but do we?

It was a difficult call and by 2006 had resulted in fewer pupils eating school dinners, according to inspectors. Many kids seemed to prefer junk food. Some pupils felt the new price was too expensive, and others simply preferred to go to the chip shop at lunchtime.

It doesn’t appear that much has changed since my school days!