Apparently parents are not putting enough fruit and veg in their offsprings’ lunch boxes.
Parents are failing to put enough fruit and veg into their children’s packed lunches, health experts have warned.
Ah, yes, the good old “experts” again. They do tend to keep coming out of the woodwork to wag their disapproving fingers at us for not following their diktats. The thing is, how do they know what parents are putting in those lunch boxes? After all, is it not a matter for parent and child and no one else? One would have thought so – in a sane world, that is…
The School Food Trust, which examined 3,500 packed lunches in England in 2009, says about 40% of lunchboxes do not contain any fruit or vegetables, compared with 10% of school dinners.
So, this “School Food Trust” took it upon itself to pry into childrens’ lunch boxes. Did they, I wonder, seek consent form parents before this gross invasion of privacy? I don’t have children, but if I did and discovered that these prodnoses had been poking about in their lunch boxes, I’d have been incandescent. And who are these people anyway? Well, blow me down, it’s a fake charity. I would never have guessed.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, Cancer Research wants a Jamie Oliver style revolution on those evil lunch boxes – never mind that folk rebelled because the children didn’t like the stuff served up.
It wants parents to ensure their children’s packed lunches always contain at least two portions of fruits and vegetables.
What it wants, frankly, is to keep its prodnose out of peoples’ business. It is up to parents to feed their children as they see fit. What goes in the lunch box is only a part of a child’s diet – although, I suppose, it is only a small logical step from the lunch box to prying in the larder and the freezer at home…
It found 58% of those with packed lunches had items that could count towards their “five a day” fruit and vegetable target, compared with over 90% of those eating school meals.
Ah, yes, the good old five a day claptrap. A statistic that came from the same school of fabricated junk science as the completely made up safe limits of alcohol consumption.
Nowhere on ‘The School Food Trust’ website does it explain where it’s funding comes from BUT it states it is a CHARITY!
Like hell it is – More of OUR cash spent on non-productive troughers with, for certain, a ‘friend of Government’ in charge with an open door to the MSM.
Young Saddam is only 6 weeks old, but I am already straining at the bit to tell some of these busybodies to piss of and mind their own business.
This will also apply to teachers who will try to make him wear a hi-vis for nature walks in broad daylight (I’ll make him one with a hi-vis star of David on the back) and a cycle helmet when he takes his cycling proficiency test.
My eldest daughter started school this September. She isn’t a particularly fussy eater, but throughout her life so far she’s had a light meal at lunchtime – sandwiches etc – and a larger, family meal at dinner time. She tried school dinners in the first week but found herself with little appetite for a stodgy main meal in the middle of the day. She is far happier with a packed lunch and we are equally happy for her to take one (not least because it works out at far less than the £1.98 per day that the local authority demands for a single school meal which she was merely pushing around the plate). We have been given very detailed ‘guidelines’ for what should go in her lunchbox but there is no sign yet of any prodnosing with regard to the treats which it also contains – a small bag of crisps or a chocolate bar alongside the fruits and veg also in her lunchbag. Another of our local schools apparently confiscates anything deemed ‘unhealthy’ from the children – and we are talking about 4-5 year olds here – and I am concerned that my daughter’s school will follow suit, especially as there are always stories like this banded around at this time of year. If your child is eating food prepared at home and brought into the school then it is none of their business what that is. I understand that many children don’t recieve any nourishing food in the home and for that reason the school meals system is great. But if you opt out of that system you also opt to take full responsibility for their diet and no interfering fake charity twats are going to stop my child enjoying a milky way at lunchtime if that is what she wants. Sometimes she has Coco pops for breakfast. Are they going to be popping round in the morning to make sure she’s not having too much sugar then too?
I wouldn’t put it past them to be working on how they can pull that one off without being lynched.
I discovered a new expression today in a vid I was sent:
Age res proprias tuas
It means “mind your own *&^&* business.”
Could be a good motto to follow.
“Parents are failing to put enough fruit and veg into their children’s packed lunches, health experts have warned.”
And what’s ‘enough’? The ‘Five A Day’ concept has already been holed beneath the waterline, so who decides?
Silly question. They do, ‘cos they know best, didn’t you realise that already? 😈
What that report does not tell us, is how many children eating school dinners are shoving the vegetables to the side of the plate, to be dumped in the bin after they have eaten only the meat and the chips. In my experience, most of the veg are just dumped.
the link ‘safe limits of alcohol consumption’ seems to be bust
Fixed.
Monty – like Stan/Loretta having the ‘right to have babies’, it’s the principle that matters; if the child has been issued with state-appproved food and a box can be ticked, what happens next is irrelevant.
Oh, and the waste doesn’t go to the pigs any more, of course, so it all adds up to the council’s ‘impressive organic matter recycling record’.
Isn’t prying into lunchboxes a violation of ‘human rights’ or something? It seems everything else is…. 😈