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06 Jul 2023 15:16

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School tiffins - boring or always yummy?

Didn't we all love the breaks at school?! It was a time to get away from lessons, chat with others, go to the playground if the recess period was long, and maybe even take a quick nap on the desk! Then there was the tiffin. Mothers (maybe fathers and grandparents too) would pack something to take to school. In the younger primary classes, there would be one, in the secondary, likely two, one the 'break box' with a quick snack for the 10-minute recess, and the larger tiffin for the longer mid-day lunch recess.

Quite often, kids would return home with the food in the boxes intact, with not even a bite taken. Mothers would be exasperated, annoyed, scold... "Why didn't you eat what I gave?" would either be greeted with stubborn silence, or funny replies starting with "because I...."

What were your experiences with the school tiffins?

#774077

06 Jul 2023 16:54

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What the author has indicated is the real issue with most of the kids. They take no more interest in the home made foods since the taste of such products are more or less the same though made with different spices taking utmost care that their kids would love such products and would express their sincere appreciation for their involvement for making such yummy foods. On retuning home, mothers find that the packed foods are in tact and the face of the child remains neutral despite asking several times.
Sometimes these kids have different stories to tell to their mothers. They would say that they could not not decline the offer of their friends when they offered him foods made from their homes. Though they might talk in such fashions innocently but utterances really hurt their mothers. The kids are yet to learn the normal courtesy practise.

#774089

07 Jul 2023 14:23

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Nowadays in many high-end schools, snacks and lunch is served in school during the breaks and the students need not to take the tiffin from home. In the normal schools as there is no such facility, students take their tiffins invariably with them. In the morning time preparing tiffin for school going children is a major activity in our households.
Many children are more interested in playing than eating and they skip their tiffin and bring the pack back home and make some excuse of not consuming it.
When I was going to school in my childhood I remember that we used to take our food during the morning itself and then there was no practice of tiffin for us. We took some snacks and food immediately after returning to home. For a few years we had mid day meal scheme where we were given some snacks during the breaks from the school itself.

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#774115

09 Jul 2023 21:12

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Recently I was in Bangalore with my elder son's family. Two of my granddaughters are going to school. The first granddaughter is in 1st class and the second granddaughter is in LKG. Both of them carry a tiffin box. Elder one eats and brings the empty box back. But the younger daughter will bring the box as it is. When her teacher asked her why she is not eating she replied that her mother is not making the food tasty. The teacher called and told the same to my daughter-in-law. That made all of us laugh. The younger one comes back from school and then opens the box and starts eating after hearing a mouthful from her mother and father.
When we were in primary school I used to come home for lunch and then go back. The school is just by the side of our house only. So I never carried the box. But while I was doing my B Sc, I used to carry my box sometimes and sometimes used to eat in the hotel.

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#774118

10 Jul 2023 13:03

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I am one of the unfortunate(or fortunate) ones who did not have any chance to take tiffin to school. My school was just across the road opposite to my home. So I(and my siblings too) used to come home during intervals and recs time and munch or gulp whatever mother has prepared or preparing.
Sometimes we used to bring our friends too to share.

(As natural to a childish mind then)I used to envy and yearn for the noon meals given at school to the poor children under CARE programme as the aroma of CARE food cooking use to pierce into our nostrils.

But when it came to the schooling for my son, we used to give him good tiffin and used to give extra so that he can share with his friends and classmates. In that school, as the school started very early in the morning we had to give morning tiffin and noon lunch also. There were some guidelines given to parents about food given to the children. The school insisted, as far as possible, to give only home coked nutritious food and discouraged giving ritualistic junk type foods and snacks. So my wife used to give our son variety foods in good containers and he used to eat and also share with his friends too.

#774120

10 Jul 2023 15:29

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The posting of author drags me to my school days. In my seventh standard a student named Pandia velayutham, was a person interested in eating tasty foods. He used to take the tiffin boxes of other students silently and if the content found different or tasty he used to finish in the class room itself that too during the class running. At the time of the lunch hour the subjected student found blank when he saw his tiffin box empty or less content. But everybody knows that the culprit was Pandiyavelayutham but nobody complaint about this to the teacher.
Not only in students the yummy is in elders also. In my office, my PA used to share food from me. One day my wife prepared capsicum curry, she tasted and took more and more from my box. As found this she liked that curry well, I told my wife about this. On the other day, my wife prepared capsicum curry and gave a separate container for her. I gave to her in the morning itself. But when we move to lunch room at the lunch hour she took capsicum curry from my box and with laugh she told that she emptied the container given by wife in the morning itself.

School tiffins - boring or always yummy?

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