Lunchbox Police

[Smasher]

Some study or other that your taxes have paid for has brought about new lunchbox police for our kids. :thumbsup:

Fortunately, I don't have to fear jail. My missus has always been very picky about what the kids eat and they always get plenty of fruit, sugar free drinks and all that yukky rubbish that I wouldn't dare put in my mouth.
We do give em a penguin or a kit kat sometimes, but now the new lunchbox police have banned them. Thank god someone has seen sense to spend public money so wisely for a change. Quite how the human race has managed to survive until someone thought of this is just beyond my capabilities of understanding..

Healthy lunchboxes a rarity, study says | BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8451828.stm)

[Papaumau]

While I do see what you are getting at here Smasher I have to mention that many parents - not like you, obviously - do not put healthy food into kids lunchboxes.

This article was based on that fact and by advising us it tries to encourage us to do what is right instead of taking the line of least resistance and always giving the kids what they crave.

I DO understand what it is like to open the kids's lunchbox after they have come home from school only to find that they have refused to eat the healthy stuff. Nevertheless I think that we must persevere here as the kids really don't know what is good for them in this respect.

I DO take issue at when schools disallow food vans to park close to the school so that they can flog their own stuff to the kids and by this denying them the right of choice.

Having said that I am sure that the schools - or at least most of them - DO offer a balanced diet of healthy and tasty foods for the kids. If they didn't the kids would simple vote with their feet and they would refuse to eat what was on offer.

I have found, being a parent and a grandparent - and even remembering my own upbringing - that kids need to have their taste-buds educated so that eventually they start to enjoy more subtle flavours rather than the easy and sugary muck that appeals to their immature palates.

If the authorities did not try to advise us here I think we might find that they would still be castigated for "doing the wrong thing". :(