Do School Canteens Serve HEALTHY Food?  

They must serve healthy foods for the children and student of school.

MOst of our breads are homemade, on site. Not necessarily whole grain, but homemade. The menu is very carefully planned, it could be healthier, but is not bad at all. Small school, small school district.

If the school administration is not extra strict about the kind of food being served and nutrition of the child then there is 100 % chance that the canteen owner will never serve healthy food. As if he will serve healthy and nutritious food it will cost him more so less profit. And a business man will never want to do that. Who cares for the welfare of the children???????

There's been a lot of publicity surrounding this in Britain in recent years as one of our TV chefs Jamie Oliver did a TV show about it.
School dinners were originally started in this country so poor children would get at least one good meal a day. Todays children can choose between junk and good food which isn't a good thing in my opinion, as kids will always choose the chips.
Children need to learn to make healthy choices now so they remain healthy in their adult lives, and tempting them with unhealthy choices isn't fair. Perhaps schools could only serve junk food on one day of the week, so it's a treat for the kids as it should be.

This was a discussion of mine a few weeks ago and you can check out some of the responses to it.... http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/674735.aspx

Healthier food is indeed in our kids best interest and as parents we should nag the schools to improve them. Also at your kids age and having had learned to eat better she would have a good voice to ask the canteen for better food. Also if kids would not buy the junk them eventually they would not serve it. Good luck. I will see how people respond to your discussion too!

The high school I went to made an effort to provide more healthy foods by adding a salad bar and a baked potato bar to their lunch menu every day. They also got rid of the vending machines in the study hall and added more diet sodas and water to the pop machines. They made an effort to make the daily lunches more nutritious as well, by switching to whole wheat dinner rolls, offering more vegetables and fruits and promoting milk with lunch.

I think that if you want your child's school to make an effort in this area, you're going to need to get involved. Talk to the school board, or bring it up to the superintendant and see if they could find a way to offer better choices for the kids. Or, if that doesn't work, your daughter may have to start bringing healthy lunches to school with her.

When I was younger, the food that was there, was not that unhealthy, but it was still not something that we should be feeding to our children. Now, in America, there are some people making changes and strides towards feeding children healthy food, but it will take a lot of time and work. Not all school districts are getting the food in the cafeterias and the machines to be more healthy, but it is slowly getting better. They will have to work harder to make lunch meals and snacks really healthy, but it can be done. It is better than schools making children ill and unhealthy.

no.those food handlers fail to take safety precautions.

well we cant say wat happens and how things are cook on the other side of wall, but yes we shud make our children enuff carefull about choosin stuff and also make them immune to any type os problem thats wat we can doo.

Well when my children were in High School, I worked at the school canteen and we always served very healthy food for our children their it was great and I was very proud that I volunteered my time to work in such a healthy enviroment with healthy food for our children we used to hold meeting in regards to our menu's so that the children just incase they had not come to school with a full healthy meal in the mornings.