So today I decided to take one step towards tackling the school lunch boxes.
I live with the daily fear of Jamie Oliver deciding to arrive to the UAE, camera crew in tow, to tackle the eating habits of the kids here. They would descend on RAKESS and sniff out six year old boy immediately as he sat forlornly, Toy story lunch box open, revealing its pathetic and nutritonally barren contents and lambast me as the worst mother in the UAE.
To be honest, he generally has the best lunch since he is willing to eat a peanut butter sandwich: Eight year old boys lunch-box contains precisely two chocolate brioche, two flavoured milks, two fruit juices and one packet of Walkers Sun bites wholegrain snacks (a stab at being healthy). Nine year old girl's is similar without the flavoured milk.
In other words, crap. So today we started tentative steps in improving lunchtime in the guise of a fresh floury roll with wafer thin turkey ham and butter.
The most surprising thing about this experiment so far is the ease with which the boys have taken to the new diet. Considering how inflexible they've been in the past, it's amazing how keen they are to change, once we've established that this is an adventure into food (and a means of getting to Australia!)
Over breakfast I gave them a progress update report and informed them that soon we would be tackling regular snacks -- instead of chocolate and crisps as a treat, we're going to try new fruits and dried fruits such as banana chips: 'Ooh, I think I'll like those' piped up eight year old boy, 'Euwww' grimaced nine year old girl.
I live with the daily fear of Jamie Oliver deciding to arrive to the UAE, camera crew in tow, to tackle the eating habits of the kids here. They would descend on RAKESS and sniff out six year old boy immediately as he sat forlornly, Toy story lunch box open, revealing its pathetic and nutritonally barren contents and lambast me as the worst mother in the UAE.
To be honest, he generally has the best lunch since he is willing to eat a peanut butter sandwich: Eight year old boys lunch-box contains precisely two chocolate brioche, two flavoured milks, two fruit juices and one packet of Walkers Sun bites wholegrain snacks (a stab at being healthy). Nine year old girl's is similar without the flavoured milk.
In other words, crap. So today we started tentative steps in improving lunchtime in the guise of a fresh floury roll with wafer thin turkey ham and butter.
The most surprising thing about this experiment so far is the ease with which the boys have taken to the new diet. Considering how inflexible they've been in the past, it's amazing how keen they are to change, once we've established that this is an adventure into food (and a means of getting to Australia!)
Over breakfast I gave them a progress update report and informed them that soon we would be tackling regular snacks -- instead of chocolate and crisps as a treat, we're going to try new fruits and dried fruits such as banana chips: 'Ooh, I think I'll like those' piped up eight year old boy, 'Euwww' grimaced nine year old girl.
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