Ban packed lunches, schools urged

[Win2Win Racing]

An official review of school food suggests head teachers in England should ban packed lunches to increase the take-up of cooked dinners and promote healthy eating.

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Ban packed lunches, schools urged

[Win2Win]

We had packed lunches back in my day in the 80's, and the fat and salt content was higher, and yet obesity wasn't a problem

[barneymather]

i don't agree with this kind of ban as I think it depends what parents put in the kids' sandwich box. My nephews and neice take packed lunches and my brother and his wife are careful about what they let their kids eat.

Children can be fussy about dinner school and some will just eat nothing if they're forced to take that option. As long as parents aren't filling lunch boxes with chocolate and other calorie laden food I don't see the problem. Or the alternative, if it's not feasible to bring kids home at lunchtime.

But don't get me started on those idiotic parents who passed burgers and chips through school railings when schools tried to encourage pupils to eat healthily.

That's the opposite of tough love, i.e. stupid love, setting their kids up for clogged arteries, diabetes and all kinds of other health problems. We all had sweets as kids and the occasional treat is fine, but with children 'playing' indoors now and their parents continually indulging them with junk food, we're on our way to an obesity epidemic.

[Win2Win]

Every obese child is that way due to the failure of the parents, no other reason. It is their kid, and it is up to them to teach it the right things to eat. Many are too lazy to bother these days though, and they let the kids eat what they want for an easy life.