This is clucking bonkers! 🍗 🐔 🍗

Were they in her school bag all day or did she pick them up before coming home?

All day, not refrigerated.

I assume she hadn’t actually made the chicken nuggets?

Just heated up some bought ones?

What a waste of a lesson, if so.

They would be better teaching them how to make a healthy sandwich, or how to boil/poach/scramble some eggs.

I also assume they collected the nuggets before the end of the day.

Oh, I see they had been in the bag all day.



And we wonder why children eat the wrong stuff, and have no idea about safe keeping of food.

From threads on GN many adults do not know much about the safe keeping of food either.

I assumed she had made the nuggets Calendargirl

I'm sure it was raw chicken shaped into nuggets and then cooked because I found the dog shredding the plastic zip lock bag she had taken the raw meat to school in.

Oh, I stand corrected then.

Not good for safe keeping of the food though.

I mean they were cooked in school that morning. Maybe reheating them today will kill any germs, but 8 hours without refrigerating seems wrong. I guess schools don't have the facilties to keep every child's food offerings chilled. 🤞

I’d give the nuggets to the dog.

😆

Not sure if I would give the chicken nuggets to the dog either!! What goes in must come out,

if you see what I mean.

There might not be many students in her class today! I thought food hygiene was a basic lesson in food technology.

Perhaps the food tech teacher has a supply of all the preservatives that manufacturers put in commercially made —crap— food rendering the chicken nuggets safe for millennia.

When I was at school we ate our cooked foods during the school day, they never got as far as home, even our Victoria sponge with half an egg in the recipe!

shysal

When I was at school we ate our cooked foods during the school day, they never got as far as home, even our Victoria sponge with half an egg in the recipe!

We had to take ours home. The fashion was those big wicker baskets -made travelling on the school bus a nightmare.
The only food we ate in school was when we had to prepare a tray for afternoon tea
Which involved damping and ironing a linen tray cloth and setting out the scones we had made together with butter curls for the fruit scones and little dishes of jam for the plain ones. Oh and we had to bring a mini-vase with one or two flowers.
We learned how to wrap the stems in wet cotton wool or else they looked sad after the trip to school.

Hold on a sec…Before you jump to conclusions you might like to be aware of a few facts.

I taught food technology at secondary school and it’s not the useless waste of time so many think it is.

Food rooms are (or should be) equipped with refrigerators that can accommodate the products of a practical lesson. These practicals are planned so that so they don’t overload the fridges.

Food hygiene is part of the lesson. The practical will most likely have been demonstrated by the teacher in a previous lesson and all students are taught safe handling, storage and safe reheating. I always advised mine to go straight home. Going shopping with your ‘practical’ in your bag is not ideal and they are well aware of this. It’s simply not fair to blame teachers, the school or the subject. Once the product has left the food room it’s the responsibility of the child or parents.

If you feel you need to complain then contact the school and speak to the head of department.

Astitchintime

Perhaps the food tech teacher has a supply of all the preservatives that manufacturers put in commercially made —crap— food rendering the chicken nuggets safe for millennia.

Ridiculous!

I make chicken nuggets for my grandsons, rather than (always) give the a freezer tea, save those for when I’m emergency gran. They were interested that it’s possible to make fresh, ‘helped’ and always say how much better they are 😇

merlotgran I assumed there would be refrigerated storage for the duration of school day.

The OP says they were carried about for 8 hours - from the first lesson.
I suppose the first lesson could have gone on till lunchtime though... 8 hours does sound like a long time.

Even in my day we had to leave (some) things in the Domestic Science room till the end of the day.

Some things we ate there - eg ice cream!

I don't think there is any blaming anyone or the school going on here, just puzzled wondering and mild concern for delicate stomachs! 🤔 It still seems wrong though.
My DD2 is Head of Department Food Tech and Textiles, albeit at a different college. So I know how the constraints of timing work in the actual lessons - demonstrating, discussion, cooking, clearing away etc. and I sympathise. Also, many kids have clubs and sports after school, so that's no different from going shopping for an hour or two. Sorry if the post appeared as a dig at teachers. That wasn't intended, and I thought some of the comments here were quite funny! Maybe the fridges were stuffed full of products and it was just poor organisation on this day? I await to hear what happened to her offerings.

Mollygo I remember a stew slopping out through a none too tight casserole lid into my school bag on the way home!

Iam64

I make chicken nuggets for my grandsons, rather than (always) give the a freezer tea, save those for when I’m emergency gran. They were interested that it’s possible to make fresh, ‘helped’ and always say how much better they are 😇

Yes, at least she learnt the skill!
I approve of kids being taught how to make their own nuggets and pizzas etc as that's the food they enjoy and will instinctively choose anyway.

NotSpaghetti, if you're interested!! 😆
Lesson ended at 10.20 am
School out at 3.20 pm
Shopping until 5.30 pmish
7 pm by the time I asked the question, (alerted by the dog gleefully running round with the empty zip lock plastic bag in his mouth)!