A loaf and a block of cheese is not lunch for ten days

[ZazieSheHer]

So some of the free school lunch boxes contain very little food.

Marcus Rashford condemns free school meal packages

“...a package, supposedly containing £30 worth of food to last for 10 days, comprising just a loaf of bread, some cheese, a tin of beans, two carrots, two bananas, three apples, two potatoes, a bag of pasta, three Frubes, two Soreen bars and a tomato”.

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Can’t imagine what it’s like home schooling hungry kids. Would like to say I’m shocked but I’m not.

They sell the £30 voucher for £15, put £15 in the lecky and are still able to get three times as much food for the children as they are getting with this criminal scam.

Unfortunately the parents that will spend £3 on feeding the kids on utter crap and the rest on a bag or two of heroin are the ones that ruin it for the vast majority of people.
"We can't give them vouchers, they are all feckless and will swap them all for drugs and booze" is probably a significant part of the rationale. At least with the FSM delivered at school you can be absolutely sure that it is the children benefitting.
But this is a total shit show. How is a mum that's fled DV and is living in a hostel with no microwave/no cooking permitted supposed to feed her children with a couple of raw potatoes ? Stuck indoors with no internet to home school, no outdoor space, barely any room and now a couple of tins of cold baked bean.

@Kissthepastrychef

They sell the £30 voucher for £15, put £15 in the lecky and are still able to get three times as much food for the children as they are getting with this criminal scam.

Unfortunately the parents that will spend £3 on feeding the kids on utter crap and the rest on a bag or two of heroin are the ones that ruin it for the vast majority of people.
"We can't give them vouchers, they are all feckless and will swap them all for drugs and booze" is probably a significant part of the rationale. At least with the FSM delivered at school you can be absolutely sure that it is the children benefitting.
But this is a total shit show. How is a mum that's fled DV and is living in a hostel with no microwave/no cooking permitted supposed to feed her children with a couple of raw potatoes ? Stuck indoors with no internet to home school, no outdoor space, barely any room and now a couple of tins of cold baked bean.

The parents who do this are not the ones ruining it for the others.

Parents who don't give a shit will never give a shit. You cannot punish the majority for the minority.

@Wheresmykimchi

There was ample food there for a child, for 5 lunches.
If you have a food parcel, your kids aren't starving!

I find the whole idea of choosing stuff for people rather than giving them the 30.00 as a voucher to choose what is right for them and their family utterly repugnant. It comes from a very shitty attitude that people can't be trusted to choose food for their kids. LA who choose this over vouchers should be ashamed of themselves.

@Kissthepastrychef

They sell the £30 voucher for £15, put £15 in the lecky and are still able to get three times as much food for the children as they are getting with this criminal scam.

Unfortunately the parents that will spend £3 on feeding the kids on utter crap and the rest on a bag or two of heroin are the ones that ruin it for the vast majority of people.
"We can't give them vouchers, they are all feckless and will swap them all for drugs and booze" is probably a significant part of the rationale. At least with the FSM delivered at school you can be absolutely sure that it is the children benefitting.
But this is a total shit show. How is a mum that's fled DV and is living in a hostel with no microwave/no cooking permitted supposed to feed her children with a couple of raw potatoes ? Stuck indoors with no internet to home school, no outdoor space, barely any room and now a couple of tins of cold baked bean.

Also did you read the PP with autistic texture averse child who got a voucher but it can only be used for food?

[quote MrsMomoa]@Wheresmykimchi

There was ample food there for a child, for 5 lunches.
If you have a food parcel, your kids aren't starving![/quote]
You are an absolute disgrace. I can't decide if you are privileged, ignorant, or a troll.

Do you know how school budgets work @MrsMomoa?

@MrsMomoa - you what?
There is no way on god's earth that schools are skimming this budget, and to suggest so is utterly insidious.

I would also say that if there are genuine concerns that some parents are choosing to buy other stuff with the voucher then we should be doing more with these families than chucking a couple of potatoes and carrots at them.

@godsaveusfrombozo exactly! Yet some on here are so ducking happy to see profiteering, because they want to blame the people on the receiving end of these FSM.

@MrsMomoa is literally saying it's more than enough and let the organisers profiteer from the scheme.

Some people have no shame, they just look down from their ivory towers.

I think the majority of children who's parents are likely to sell it for a bag of heroin are classed as vulnerable and still in school, well they are at our school!

I cant see how anyone will vote Conservative again after what the pandemic has shown us

Also anyone who thinks that a feckless parent who is likely to spend a food voucher in the bookies is going to knock up a nutritious meal with half a can of tuna and some potatoes needs their head examining.

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@Jellycatspyjamas

MPs don’t get an allowance for food. They can’t claim for the cost of food at all (unless they are doing parliamentary work away from both their constituency & London- which is very rare)“

Is there still an heavily subsidised restaurant in the Commons, as there was when I worked there as a Member’s PA?
The Pugin Room knocked out a very decent, cut priced tea too.

yes I saw the c4 news report and the stuff was just so...random! like some freaky cooking challenge

@Wheresmykimchi
I wasn't defending it. Maybe you would kindly quote where I did.

I can't stop reminiscing about my own FSM's now. They weren't as healthy as nowadays, (and we still had crisps and chocolate for break, to go with our milk, instead of fruit).

They were always really tasty, massive portions, and 2nds if you wanted them. Then fruit cocktail or a pudding after. Pie, chips gravy and veg, well seasoned mince with mash. Pizza and chips now and again. Nearly everything came with either a side of chips, or mash, but it was solid food, with a lot of carbs/calories. Ds says his are similar now, they're always nice and there's always enough, and the menu looks similar.

I just wish jon snow had asked the Conservative mp defending it what she had for lunch today

Food is better than giving vouchers!!

Because you are a good parent you think every parent is. Some people genuinely don’t care if their children are starving.

For families like that it’s not about being poor- it’s just about being a bad parent. Vouchers for food would be sold to someone for £20 to then go get drugs.

@Wheresmykimchi surely you aren't that naive to not consider that there is quite a good market in selling food vouchers ? In exactly the same way that people sell their methadone scripts so they can buy heroin with the money instead

I just wish jon snow had asked the Conservative mp defending it what she had for lunch today

Don't look at the Houses of Parliament website at the restaurant menus. They gave me the rage when I realised the outrageous way they are subsidised

GoodQueenAlysanne

Savoury mince, Spam Fritters, lumpy custard, loved it. Brings a tear to the eye 😁

[quote Kissthepastrychef]@Wheresmykimchi surely you aren't that naive to not consider that there is quite a good market in selling food vouchers ? In exactly the same way that people sell their methadone scripts so they can buy heroin with the money instead[/quote]
Surely you are not that naive to believe the two are comparable.

Can you give me one ground someone would have for BUYING a food voucher?

That aside , those who do this won't feed their kids anyway so the problem remains. What have we achieved?

Also anyone who thinks that a feckless parent who is likely to spend a food voucher in the bookies is going to knock up a nutritious meal with half a can of tuna and some potatoes needs their head examining.

Yes! Exactly!

@Kissthepastrychef fgs