Just as school dinners have changed in recent years, so have many other things.  A BBC website user recently wrote in because she was moving back to the UK after ten years in Australia.  The BBC did an informal survey to find some of the everyday changes that have happened in the last ten years.  The little things that we may not even notice until someone points them out.

See how many of these you recognise.

1. Coffee is now served by the pint and it costs more than a pint of beer.
2. We used to get our gas from British Gas, our electricity from the local electricity board and our phone service from BT. Now, we get our gas from the bank, our electricity from British Gas, and our phone service from Tesco.
3. The DFS sale which started decades ago will be ending soon.
4. We used to meet friends at a given location/time arranged many days in advance. If they were late we had to scratch around for 10p to ring from a phone box.  We rarely got stood up because there was no easy way to cancel an arrangement.  Now we just text "will mt u in 5" and "soz cant make it". 
5. Now it's OK to take photos at concerts, so long as we use phones.
6. Marmite comes in squeezy jars.
7. Elaborate descriptions adorn food packaging: "freshly made", "perfectly ripe", "deliciously creamy".
8. Beach huts used to be for grandparents rather than property speculators.
9. Ten years ago a "C" in the middle of a circle meant "copyright" not "Congestion Charging Zone".
10. The M62 and M25 used to be motorways rather than car parks.
11. "I was following my Sat Nav" is now the excuse for driving where we shouldn't.
12. Helen Mirren was occasionally called "Ma'am" by junior officers in Prime Suspect, but not by anybody else.
13. "Decking" now refers to something we do to our gardens, rather than what one boxer does to another.
14. Swear words are no longer asterisked in the newspaper.
15. Headline puns are no longer the sole property of the tabloids.
16. A wag was something a dog did with its tail.
17. If children carried guns, they squirted water!
18. Policeman are still nominally unarmed but wander around in body armour - even in the Lake District - that makes them look like battle scene extras from Starship Troopers.
19. You can no longer wear a hat or a hooded top inside a shopping centre.
20. A family seaside holiday in Britain is considered chic.
21. Northern Ireland is one of the UK's top tourist destinations.
22. The customer is no longer wrong all the time.
23. The phrase "Big Brother is watching you" should actually be the other way round for many people.
24. Naked bottoms in TV ads!
25. Noel Edmonds is still on telly, but at least his Crinkly Bottom has been banished to oblivion.
26. Daleks were reduced to advertising Kit-Kats. Today they're appearing on a lunchbox, annual, poster, t-shirt, DVD, sticker collection and life-size cardboard cut-out near you.
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27. Passwords were for international spies and entry to gang huts a decade ago. Now you can barely buy milk without the need for some secretive alpha-numeric code.
28. People go to hospital to become ill.
29. The UK will be just like Australia except the weather is worse and the coffee isn't as good.
30. Everyone wants to move to Australia.

You can read the BBC article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6412083.stm

We think there are many pros and cons to changes.  Change is important, but the wrong change can have disastrous effects.  Let us know what you think of the changes that have been made to school dinners and what changes you would suggest for the future.