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.

I don't.know why the government does not just have one of those pre packed good boxes from supermarket eg. Morrisons delivered to each child. They cost about £15 don't they? They could pick from meat or veggie and have 1 each week. There are lots in those boxes. About 4 times what some of these greedy companies are charging and those families are getting. It is disgusting making money from hungry vulnerable children. The government needs to stop this company its tracks.

@Wheresmykimchi

So you keep saying tory (mps aren't all tory) and government not LA.

Just who do you think is the big wig tory that signed off on this particular box?

Vs the others that are on twitter that are radical better?

I'm really curious which "tory" in Central government rather than some civil servant okd this

@caringcarer

I don't.know why the government does not just have one of those pre packed good boxes from supermarket eg. Morrisons delivered to each child. They cost about £15 don't they? They could pick from meat or veggie and have 1 each week. There are lots in those boxes. About 4 times what some of these greedy companies are charging and those families are getting. It is disgusting making money from hungry vulnerable children. The government needs to stop this company its tracks.

Because competition laws.

Governments can't just act like consumers or it can be deemed unfair.

I would not be surprised if there was some clause or rule somewhere that this could not undercut local suppliers etc

Is there a way to actually see copies of government procurement orders etc?

@saraclara

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/house-and-home/household-advice/a673628/how-to-make-bread-last-longer/

Never keep your bread in the fridge. The starch molecules in bread recrystallize very quickly at cool temperatures, and causes the bread to stale much faster when refrigerated.

How come my doesn't then? If depends on the bread.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

As a taxpayer, do people realise what it would cost to give £15 cash per week to every FSM child?

There are 1.4 million children entitled to FSM.

If we have a 12 week lockdown, that's 250 million pounds.

Where do people think this money is coming from?

From the money the government are creaming off the tax payer to line their own corrupt pockets.

I am certain that if the government asked large supermarkets to produce good for 5 lunches they could do do and deliver parent collect once a week from store. They could include a loaf of bread, bottle of squash, tin of soup, tin of beans, cheese, 2 large jacket potatoes. 5 bananas, 5 apples, cherry tomatoes, pack of spread and biscuits. They could make lunches of jacket and beans, soup/bread, cheese on toast, jacket and beans, toasted cheese and tomato sandwich. Each day an apple, banana, a few cherry tomatoes and a few biscuits. To my mind that is about £7.50 for 5 lunches. There would be rnough bread left over for a slice of toast each lunch time if child was still hungry. So half the money the government are paying for more food. I would give my child a lunch like this if they are at home. I would eat the same things myself too.

The woman whose husband is an MP who’d have leftovers from this box....

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You actually couldn’t make this up.

@Katyppp

To be honest, i look at threads like this and wonder when the Government became responsible for feeding children? And when did people become so entitled that they expected it? And complained because it wasn't enough? I have really struggled financially in the past, and i have never come anywhere near letting my children go hungry, ever. I am sorry, but no-one is so poor in the UK that they can't afford to feed their kids. There may be very specific situations when cash is tight, for example waiting for UC or fleeing domestic abuse, but widespread inability to afford food on a daily basis is a budgeting issue. It suits the left-wing narrative to promote food poverty, as seen on here, along with the usual juvenile comments about Tories helping their mates out. I agree there is not enough food to justify the £30 bill, that's obvious. But the real scandal is that the whole expectation of free food was there in the first place.

Goady troll

Lots of goady trolls.
Some shut up when a PP pointed out their posting history was just a click away.....

@AldiIsla

Lots of goady trolls. Some shut up when a PP pointed out their posting history was just a click away.....

Lol

A loaf of bread and a block of cheese is not lunch for ten days THREAD 2

I've never rated a tomato sandwich in my life! Tomatoes accompany something else in a sandwich! What a disgrace!

[quote LatteToday]@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)

You said you’d like to see MPs use that list for lunches:
My DH is an MP. He makes himself packed lunches most days.
He usually has a sandwich, a piece of fruit & one other thing.
So from that list he’d have every day:
Sandwich/wrap/roll with tomatoes, cucumber and cheese/ham/egg/tuna (whichever there was)
Piece of fruit
Yoghurt on a couple of days
Water

That would leave him with
2 baking potatoes plus baked beans which he’d happily eat for his evening meal, with milk to drink. (He still likes drinking milk)
On the days without yoghurt he’d probably feel like he’d like eg a Kit Kat, and it wasn’t quite enough.

But - if I bought him that list, he’d certainly feel he has enough food for his lunches for 5 days.[/quote]
Are you defending the Tory's?

@lovelemoncurd

I've never rated a tomato sandwich in my life! Tomatoes accompany something else in a sandwich! What a disgrace!

I love tomato sandwiches! I also love grilled tomatoes on toast with a pinch of salt - let them burn a little bit. So ner! I'm not sure a child would go for them though but how often has a child been offered or even thought of it?

It shows it's easy to come up with solutions but blooming difficult to implement them. Shame Marcus didn't write a business plan on how this was to be run.

To be honest, i look at threads like this and wonder when the Government became responsible for feeding children?

1879 .

The PPs saying it's just for lunches, do you not realise that the lunch that the child normally receives at school is their main meal of the day?

These kids do not go hone to hot pot and lasagne in the evenings.

So it's not just lunches, it's supposed to replace the child's main meal of the day.

Christ some people do live in a bubble!

@PinkyParrot it's a shame a footballer had to direct the government and it's a shame they didn't write a business plan themselves.

Can't imagine Boris running 90 minutes on a pitch and more than I cant imagine Marcus Rashford writing a business plan.

It's the governments job to ensure the well being of vulnerable sector of people in society, not just to keep taxes down and give jobs to their rich mates.

Do you not think it's a disgrace that the children were forgotten during the pandemic? That not one person in government thought, how are parents going to replace FSM? It took a footballer to shame them into it.

*To be honest, i look at threads like this and wonder when the Government became responsible for feeding children?
*
I suspect around the time they stopped children being put into workhouses?

It's hardly a recent thing, or do you live under a rock?

Do you not think it's a disgrace that the children were forgotten during the pandemic? That not one person in government thought, how are parents going to replace FSM? It took a footballer to shame them into it

Its a disgrace that there are even people in this situation at all. Especially if they are working , wages should be enough to live on.

I mean surely teachers all leave college /uni equally qualified? So why does one school have 20 percent a-c grades and another have 80 percent? Wheres the support for said schools to do something about the obstacles their kids are facing? Education is surely the best way out the mess so bloody invest in it properly and give teachers and staff the resources to keep kids in schools and teach them.

But im.guessing no one can post a picture on face book of themselves shaking hands with some CEO holding a box of mouldy bread they plan to distribute to a few token poor people and make themselves look good. Would require no one even bloody knowing who's doing what l and its all about credit and publicity these days.

And no I'm not blaming teachers. Quite the opposite. I just meant they are surly all qualified so there's no reason the kids do so badly as far as the teachers go. They just need to be given the ability to do their jobs

But I guess breaking the cycle of poor education and poverty would mean that their status would look less somehow. Who would you compare yourself against ...

They look less meagre up here, where councils are tending to source their own
What is inside free school meals boxes in the North East

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