Food Glorious Food!

There are a few things that come up under this heading for us making the transition from school to home ed.

We find our kids are affected by the kinds of food they eat and the environment around them while they are eating. I always found packed lunches hard as we have never really done the sandwiches thing, not more than once a week really. Often I would pick the children up and find that very little had been eaten of their lunch. Our preference was hot dinners but these were still heavy on the meat/wheat/dairy/sugar intake in comparison to our diet at home.

We qualified for free school dinners for the last year or so before we left, and this added up to £80 per month for both children! Great service! Financially it may have impacted us, now being responsible for those meals at home, but it adds to the long list of empowering factors about home ed, because now the children are involved in planning and preparing meals, there is a high portion of organic and local ingredients. They and us can play a deciding role in whether they eat sugary puddings or not which means we can be ready for the sugar low if it comes.