Friday 20 July 2012

A week for our young ones!

VEG's Dad here

It's a great week in Texas Tech. I am enjoying the chat and debate on how our school food may influence our choices later in life. Also on our differing nutritional needs when older.

So before we're back in term time and back in primary schools I thought a week of the food we give our kids before they go to school would be fascinating. We have received many lovely emails from Mums and Dads offering to guest blog so here's your chance. Please send an email with your post, a picture just of the meal, and rate it like VEG. For this week only it's ok for the parents to write! It can be breakfast, dinner or tea. If you'd like to send your email in a foreign language I'll post that with a translation (please include) as we did for Wales. I'd really like to have 3 meals a day for next week and travel as far as we can across the globe.

One of the reasons I'd like to see what we give our youngsters is because we will be visiting a Mary's Meal under 6 feeding centre in Malawi. Mary's Meals offers these children two meals a day as 'because their young age makes them more vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition'. It costs just 6p for a Mary's Meal, that's £10.70 a year, so please make a donation and we'll show you the difference you are making when we visit in October.

Looking forward to your contributions. I wonder where the preschool tour will kick off? VEG's geography skills will be tested!

Thanks,

VEG's Dad

NeverSeconds@gmail.com
@NeverSeconds

9 comments:

  1. Just to be clear it can be a meal from home or a meal from daycare, nursery etc.

    Many thanks,

    VEG's Dad

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  2. Sounds like it's going to be an interesting week and another one to look forward to.

    I would send in a photo etc., but my youngest Daugther will be away for the week at a camp here in the UK. They are not allowed to take phones/camera's so she can't even let me know what she is eating or up to, and I am not going to cheat and make something up just to send it in.

    Let's get this across the globe and we all can learn some Geography :)

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  3. How exciting! I have a 3 and a half year old and an 8 month old and thought we wouldn't be able to take part. Do we get given a day in advance or just send something in any day?

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    1. Send it in, breakfast lunch or dinner. I'll sort and publish next week.

      NeverSeconds@gmail.com


      Veg's Dad

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    2. That sounds great, thanks!

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  4. oh I lve this blog, as interesting as the grad students are, I much prefer the young kids like Veg! is she going to continue? looks like there are different writers for the next few months?

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    1. Veg is on holiday so no school dinners for her. She'll be blogging every Friday in the run up to visiting Malawi. Hopefully everyday from Malawi as she meets the children receiving the Friends of NeverSeconds kitchen.

      Veg's Dad

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    2. Hello Veg & Dad,
      I am really enjoying reading all the posts and looking at the pictures. I would like to share a couple of other blogs with you. They are about my daughters trips to other parts of Africa.
      encounterssouthafrica.wordpress.com is the trip to South Africa through Niagara College in Ontario, Canada
      taylortravelling.blogspot.ca is the trip to Namibia through Brock University also in Ontario
      I am not sure if Malawi is like either of these places but the pictures are enlightening. Hope you enjoy if you get a chance to look!

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  5. Thanks for sharing about Mary's Meals -- I donated today!

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