29/07/2008

How Much Nutrition In That Bowl of Noodles

I was at the school canteen when a friend's daughter bought her own lunch. The school tuckshops has queues so long that I usually don't encourage my girl to queue for it. She eats quite slow and by the time she gets her food I think she will probably not have enought time to eat them anymore. So I pack lunch box for her few times a week if she stays back for lessons and activities.


Last week I took this picture of the food the girl bought. I really cannot believe how can a tuckshop be selling such a meal. The soup looks like water and there is not obvious item that shows nutrition in it. I remembered that school tuck shops have certain guidelines in their requirements so what is this.. I don't see any vegetable and there is only one piece of fishcake (processed food) , probably few pieces more under the noodle and unhealthy instant noodles. Ugh..

5 comments:

  1. Piggy29 July 2008 at 16:39

    Hmm...funny right? I mean food from school are suppose to be nutritious. They are still little kids, should be getting more good food.....

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  2. Constance Chan29 July 2008 at 19:38

    agree.. somemore when i enquired about tuckshop, the govt states very clearly about healthy food and do not permit fried food and snacks in schools.. but look at the miserable noodles..

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  3. Nick Phillips (15/03/1967 - 04/11/2022)30 July 2008 at 17:48

    Most school tuck shops don't sell much nutritious food and I blame it on the law enforcement or rather lack of enforcement.

    At least I know my kids tuck shop sells sausages and decent stuff so I'm not too worried about them ...

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  4. Anonymous31 July 2008 at 08:53

    ya, very pity nia for those children have no choice but to queue for this kind of food,i think the school should do something on it lah

    Jipunabor

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  5. Constance Chan31 July 2008 at 19:14

    gosh nick.. your kids are luckier in school. believe it or not, deep fried stuff and processed food like sausages are not allowed! and they allow these noodles! i really can't grasp the value of such noodle..

    jipunabor.. just imagine i think even fried koay teow in our schools back then are much better. sg schools don't allow such food! sigh

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