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July 13th 2006 08:29
Jamie’s School Dinners is a highly interesting and original TV series. By this point Jamie Oliver has become an international celebrity chef with a lot of quality work under his belt and he can afford to be creative and take some risks.
The show is basically an attempt by the lovable Jamie to reform the meals served in schools so that they reflect acceptable nutritional levels and encourage healthy eating habits. However, this inevitably not as easy as it may at first seem.
There are also two things Australian viewers will need to bear in mind! Firstly, in Britain children are usually served lunch at school, and this is supposed to be their main decent meal of the day if what they get at home is substandard due to busy parents or other factors. Secondly, for some crazy reason, in England they say ‘dinner’ instead of ‘lunch’. Go figure.
One poignant moment that I remember vividly was an interview with a doctor who was analysing the nutritional value of the standard school lunch and the health of the students. He said that in some cases the constipation caused by foods low in fibre became so severe that children would actually begin to vomit faeces. EWWWW!
There were several unexpected hurdles that needed to be overcome, one by one in a lateral way. The first was that it is difficult to encourage children to eat food that is actually good for them, especially if they are used to eating bland, oily stuff. A lot of their meals were micro-waved freezer food, like potato gems shaped like soccer players. One child actually bursts into tears of horror when then lunch lady attempts to feed him salad.
The second major hurdle was to train women who are used to heating up freezer bags full of junk food to actually cook nutritious food in large quantities. It doesn’t sound like a big deal at first, but if someone suddenly came along to my work place and told me I had to work three times as hard and learn several new things, I wouldn’t be so impressed either. The solution is little short of a boot camp…
The task he set himself during this series was quite possibly his biggest challenge yet. To find out how he copes and perseveres, you can get the DVD from online retailers. www.channel4.com/schooldinners
It also inspired the website "Feed Me Better".
It is believed that the use of low-resolution images in this context
• to illustrate the program in question,
• with the program name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above,
on the www.foodherald.com hosted on a server in Australia by www.orble.com , qualifies as fair use under Australian copyright law.
The show is basically an attempt by the lovable Jamie to reform the meals served in schools so that they reflect acceptable nutritional levels and encourage healthy eating habits. However, this inevitably not as easy as it may at first seem.
There are also two things Australian viewers will need to bear in mind! Firstly, in Britain children are usually served lunch at school, and this is supposed to be their main decent meal of the day if what they get at home is substandard due to busy parents or other factors. Secondly, for some crazy reason, in England they say ‘dinner’ instead of ‘lunch’. Go figure.
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One poignant moment that I remember vividly was an interview with a doctor who was analysing the nutritional value of the standard school lunch and the health of the students. He said that in some cases the constipation caused by foods low in fibre became so severe that children would actually begin to vomit faeces. EWWWW!
There were several unexpected hurdles that needed to be overcome, one by one in a lateral way. The first was that it is difficult to encourage children to eat food that is actually good for them, especially if they are used to eating bland, oily stuff. A lot of their meals were micro-waved freezer food, like potato gems shaped like soccer players. One child actually bursts into tears of horror when then lunch lady attempts to feed him salad.
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The second major hurdle was to train women who are used to heating up freezer bags full of junk food to actually cook nutritious food in large quantities. It doesn’t sound like a big deal at first, but if someone suddenly came along to my work place and told me I had to work three times as hard and learn several new things, I wouldn’t be so impressed either. The solution is little short of a boot camp…
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The task he set himself during this series was quite possibly his biggest challenge yet. To find out how he copes and perseveres, you can get the DVD from online retailers. www.channel4.com/schooldinners
It also inspired the website "Feed Me Better".
It is believed that the use of low-resolution images in this context
• to illustrate the program in question,
• with the program name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above,
on the www.foodherald.com hosted on a server in Australia by www.orble.com , qualifies as fair use under Australian copyright law.
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