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I remember it costing 5s as we had to take the money in ourselves, mum's were not allowed to escort you to the classroom like today

Senior school it was 60p... Enough to buy 10 cigarettes a day :-D

PM sent to Wendy in case she was expecting personal messages instead of people adding to her thread.

Puddings often consisted of a big square of sponge. One I remember eating regularly was topped with white icing and sprinkled with multi-coloured 'hundreds and thousands' which bled into the icing. It was always served with pink custard.

After the meal had ended the dinner ladies walked around with metal dishes containing strips of carrots to clean our teeth. :-)

Sixpence for a tooth Sharron baby Satan gets a tenner :-D

inflation and all that lol :-D :-D

When I had school dinners in the early/mid fifties for two years - the menu never changed during that period. Monday I can recall - sausages/cabbage.

From mid sixties my mother was a school meals manageress and she spent a lot of time in her office during school holidays compiling menus for the following terms and then had to argue with the Nutritions Expert from County Hall about suitability of the menus.

One insisted salad once a week - Mum argued for an alternative as under twelves
weren't awfully keen on salads etc.

Rollo I do take exception to 'unkown table etiquette. My parents were strong on this as was I when I became a parent. My adult g.children know how to behave.

I am always horrified to see when dining out, patrons of all ages with elbows on tables using flatware like shovels with mouths wide open.

I would have sworn that when I was in the Infants (early 60s) a week of school lunches cost 2/6d. Obviously I have misremembered.

6d from the tooth fairy :-0
I got a 3d bit.....I loved that coin :-)

Chris

Yes, I've got 2/6d in my mind as well. We used to be sold Saving Stamps for that amount, which was probably were I was getting confused.

I remember my first school dinner,

Was asked at home what I had been served and told them it was baked potato, salad and dog meat.

We never had Spam at home.

I used to make the occasional burger from scratch, for my children, which they loved.
when my eldest was given the choice of one at school (1985) she (thinking it would be like mine) took one bite - and threw up. It wasn't like mummy's - apparently it was vile :-(


...and I don't regard myself as a good cook.

MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP I AM NOW PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
THANKS AGAIN
WENDY :-)

If you're in your mid 60s aren't you a bit old for school meals? :-S

:-D :-D :-D