good points about the school dinners!
i send my daughter off with a packed lunch, not a perfect one admitted, but when she has asked to stay to school dinners they are rushed as well as forced to eat food she dosent like, one day she asked for the curry not realising it was lamb curry, so she went without, no one was gonna make her eat that for anything!
we are not fussy eaters (the others are but i love all the vegetables going) so we try and stick to an evening meal that they all enjoy, may have to make 5 different meals but try to keep everyone happy, but if i try to put a bit extra in her lunch box cos we dont have dinner till 6.30 its a long time for her to go without and i dont like her nibbling picky foods, as she then wont eat all her dinner,
they dont have long enough i think for school dinners, 30 mins to eat a dinner and pudding and drink and piece of fruit, they have to rush it also this is the time they have to go the loo and wash hands