AIBU to think the new healthy eating vouchers

[Niceguy2]

is just a complete waste of time & money?

The likes of Nestle & Mars will never be truly serious about healthy eating as their whole business rests upon us consuming vast quantities of their junk food.

Let me see £250m in vouchers....last year's profit for Nestle alone was £10billion. They spend about 20x more on marketing alone!

Also, I've yet to meet any sane adult in the UK who didn't know what they SHOULD eat.

I know I should eat lots of fruit & vegetables. But I also know they go off quickly and I can't be fagged to go to the supermarket every couple of days.

I also cba to cook from scratch everyday using my lovely fresh veg and its way easier to slam in a pizza.

Lastly, it's also way cheaper to buy frozen food than fresh.

So I'll probably grab a pack of vouchers to see what I can save. But its not like I'll go "mmmm, yum! That's what a cucumber tastes like! Wow! Let me buy some more!"

Well it puts the lie to the argument that the main reason people eat rubbish is because they can't afford healthy food. 'CBA' seems to be the main problem ...

It makes you want to cry. Those sugar-laden cereal manufacturers promoting healthy eating. It's disgusting.

Please can someone explain what it actually is? I have read the link but do not understand.
Thanks

Yep I just tried and it crashed and kicked me off half way through too.

I'm wondering whether its because in actual fact my DS does have a healthy diet and regular excercise. They won't give me the vouchers.

I think the bloody things should be scraped completely, waste of my taxes

I went to have a look on the site, but it wanted an awful lot of details just to tell me what the vouchers were, so I gave up on it. I would like to know if the vouchers mean you can, for example, buy a pound of apples of your choice in Asda and get, say, 25p taken off them at the till, or whether the vouchers will be for £0.25 off your next purchase of a set food item that they decide you can buy.

I have the OPOSITE experience with healthy start vouchers.

We have gotten them for a while and ALWAYS spend it on fruit and veg but we get jobsworths adding up our veg and saying 'you need 10p more veg' or them making a really big deal out of them and making us feel embarressed for using them in front of a cue of people.

We've never been able to use them on anything other than fruit,veg, milk or formula.

We've found shops are very strict and we shop at tesco, asda, sainsburies and the co-op regularly.

Jareth I'm breastfeeding and get the vouchers. So I have the value of a tub of formula (or thereabouts) to spend on fresh milk, fruit or veg. It doesn't incentivise FF at all, IMO.

I've had the same experience as Totoros, tbh. Also once I had some which were going to expire so went to the greengrocer's near the children's centre which always has cheaper fruit and veg and it tastes nicer than the supermarket stuff. Got some nice fruit for me and DS and some veg to make soup. Then got to the till and he said "Oh no, we don't take those". Only reason I was buying the stuff was to use them up so I had to put it all back - I didn't shop there for ages, I was too embarrassed!

My friend uses hers in iceland, as long as she buys a bag of lettuce/some apples, they take the rest off whatever she has bought. Maybe I should do that and just buy my fruit and veg at the nice greengrocer's.

Just to clarify, I was talking about healthy start vouchers, not the new ones.

Have registered now but no mention of any vouchers anywhere on the site :(

Have looked this up on moneysaving expert website (sorry, can't do links from iPad) and it looks like there's a limited number of voucher books and you have to 'qualify' so not everyone registering will get anything. Haven't seen anything from anyone who has qualified tho