School lunch confessions

My primary school days during the 1970’s-early 80’s were fueled by a now almost extinct basket of goodies (read: baddies) that defy comprehension by today’s nutritional caretakers. Now I have a food business specialising in nutritional balanced fresh lunches and whilst I have emerged a relatively healthy specimen, I can’t escape the irony.

I also couldn’t miss this opportunity of my first blog entry to have a quick look back in time and confess our sins before we can all move on!

I’m sure there are thousands of other Australians from this era who – blissfully innocent and unaware of any nutritional sin committed – munched, crunched, slurped, gurgled, squished and frequently gagged on all manner of artificially coloured and flavoured delights!

These are my own confessions:

• Chip rolls – a bread roll hollowed out and stuffed with a packet of potato chips, twisties or similar
• Easter egg sandwiches – lots of butter on white bread and broken easter pieces as the filling
• Mini plastic pizzas – from the canteen and usually mostly eaten by licking the sticky plastic-cheesy topping off the inside of the plastic bag in which it came
• Sweaty chicken sandwiches – leftover barbecue chicken stored in cling wrap in schoolbag outside all morning in outdoor north-facing open locker
• Custard tart – lick and slurp out the rubbery custard content or harvest with front teeth before rolling pastry into a ball to follow as the chaser

A family member, who wishes to remain nameless, confessed her sin was a straight mayonnaise sandwich – just butter and mayo on white bread!

It would be great to hear about what the parents of today’s kids ate during their school days! My kids might never understand the wicked pleasures of an Easter egg sandwich, but it may help to have a laugh at mum and dad as they develop their interest in good food and nutrition.

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