General Chat

malt and cod liver oil *gags* I loved the National Health orange juice though :-))

I also love Marmite, both daughters do, hubby and son hate it..lol

Sue x

Well to be honest, Ann, I think it's only fair they stop 'em having booze and fags in their packed lunch ;-) PMSL

I think marmite is gross but my dad likes it. It sounds like they brought in the policy because the teachers don't like the smell. And yeah, jam and marmalade have got to be just as bad if not more so (as are crisps etc).

Yeah have to confess........easy going parent though I am ...........fags and booze in a lunch box just isn't on lol xx

pmsl summer scribe

Love the Marmite ads - 'love it or loathe it' with the cartoon woman throwing up into the policeman's hat. well I, for one, love it. Yummy on toast or crackers or bread.

Wasn't Virol a bit like Robilene(?) full of malt and supposed to build you up. It built me up alright!!

and what about the new squeezy bottle? Ok untill you get near the end!! then, you end up throwing it away cos you cant get it out!

:-) I can just see it now... "Hmm what have you got today little freddy? Smirnov? Now we've been over this...tell your mummy I only drink Whiskey."

Virol was thick and treacly - but not like coffee Mick!
Sue, I loved the National Health orange juice too - but never gave it to my children - far too much sugar and additives. I used to drink it and gave them St Clements!!

Sue, national health orange juice, that was called Spring. I can still taste it, it was a powder in a blue and white tin that you mixed with water. Nearest taste to it these days is Fanta.
Love marmite but there is a salt free version available in health food shops which is much healthier for kids.

We used to get the orange juice in glass bottles. It used to be really strong as I remember it. We had to walk to the childrens' clinic to get it every two weeks. With huge bloomin' jars of malt and cod liver oil which my nephews and I had to have every day...yeeeeuhhh!

We used to dilute the orange it tasted great. I don't think I have ever tasted a nicer one.
Angela

I can see the logic of eating frozen cubes of Vegemite - speaking as someone who used to eat 'Oxo' cubes! Oh, and 'raw' jelly!

maggie

Jean ... everybody ... nobody has banned anybody from eating marmite.

Google is such a useful thing. Ask it for

Ceridigion marmite

and the first thing you get is:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7662078.stm

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A spokesman for the Ceredigion village school admitted they would no longer be serving Marmite in the breakfast club after the salt content was highlighted.

"Breakfast clubs are intended to improve the health and concentration of children - to assist in the raising of standards of learning and attainment," said the spokesman.

"But anything served must be healthy and nutritionally balanced.

"Marmite is not included on the list of items as it does include a high level of salt.

"Low sugar marmalade or jam can be spread on toast, but lemon curd is not on the list of provisions."

... On Friday, the council said it was not its intention to single out any one food product as being unsuitable, the response "merely addressed the specific question asked of it".

A spokesperson said it had explained that Marmite was not included on the list of items that could be provided for school breakfasts.

Guidelines it had been given from the Welsh Assembly Government also allowed low sugar marmalade or jam to be spread on toast but not lemon curd. Sugar could be added to porridge but not cereal.

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The school is not SERVING marmite to children who get their breakfast at the school.

It is NOT banning anyone from EATING marmite at the school.

I trust we all see the difference.

For more info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite

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Nutritional information

Marmite has useful quantities of vitamins, even in small servings. Sodium (salt) content of the spread is high and has caused concern, but the amount per serving, not the percentage in bulk Marmite, is the significant factor.

Per 4 g serving of UK Marmite
Sodium – 0.2 g

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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nutrition-for-kids/NU00606

-- says children 4 to 8 should have up to 1200 mg a day, children 9 to 13 should have up to 1500 mg a day.

A serving of marmite is 200 mg. That's 1/6 of a day's allowance for a young child, if the child has one serving. (Do children eat more than one slice of bread with this stuff?)

For comparison (and to consider what else a child eats during the day), a serving of packaged macaroni and cheese would probably account for the full daily allowance of sodium; home-made would be less. A slice of commercial pizza would give at least half the day's recommended maximum. Deli meat and weiners are high, of course. Canned soups and stews and pastas are high. Your basic Mcdonald's hamburger has 520 mg of sodium. A tsp of table salt contains about 2,400 mg of sodium.

When you consider what a lot of children are going to be eating for the rest of the day, it really might not be that bad an idea to cut a couple of hundred mg of sodium out of their breakfasts.

Mind you, commercial breakfast cereals are kinda loaded in the stuff too ...

Bring back malt and cod liver oil for today's kids. I had to suffer, I don't see why they shouldn't!

Virol was cod liver oil and malt! you can buy jars of malt to use in cooking, but I used to love it as a spread on bread and butter.