To think peoples lives are crap enough without needing the government to interfere with Meal Deals

[Jeansmeansheinz]

FFS just let people have the pleasure of a Meal Deal. I really don't need the Government telling me what I can and can't eat.

Thank you - I was thinking of that quote earlier when I said that people are entitled to a treat now and then.

600 calories is actually quite a lot for lunch!

Is it bollocks 🤣

Average female needs 1800 calories

So 600 is a third

So it could be fine 400 for breakfast 600 lunch 800 dinner works for many people
( no snacks or booze or supper )

Fingers crossed for that 🤞

Have interventions like this ever achieved their aims, anywhere in the world?

The alcohol pricing on Scotland didnt reduce the consumption of the extreme drinkers ( which is where the nanny state press focussed )

but did cut overall consumption so overall benefit

So yes these things can help

It’s a hard thing to measure but being cynical I would say they probably wouldn’t have much impact as people would just buy unhealthy lunches elsewhere if that’s what they wanted to eat. And governments know that so it’s all a bit pointless. How to look like as a government you care when you actually don’t.

But if it just means that someone might not buy a bottle of wine with their Wednesday dinner, while the heavy drinkers won't change their habits, is that a real benefit?

The heaviest drinkers are not the only problem drinkers

Many people drink way more than is good for you

A bottle of wine a night is much less than a bottle of gin - both are harmful
Just because the gin guzzlers didn't reduce doesn't mean that there was no benefit

Well I suppose the proof of the pudding is in the eating (ha ha). Was there a decline in alcohol-related health issues?

The point was that the sugar tax seems to have been forgotten by some Supermarkets already, so basically just an excuse for profiteering as the whole point of it was that sugar free drinks should be cheaper.

The taste etc is irrelevant and off topic.

More to the point, do the statistics show a significant reduction in sales of "naughty" items that have suffered higher taxes? I suspect not.

Some people literally have zero time to cook. I work full time and I have a commute, plus I have 2 preschool DC who don't sleep til gone 10pm and are often up in the night.

Making me cook from scratch would quickly lead to starvation!
It's not just the cooking & prep time either - it's the washing up afterwards which takes time.

Sigh - another way to tax those who have the least rather than those who have the most.

I wish we had government who busied themselves around the fact that there are people who can't afford to run a fridge to store fresh food and people who can't afford a hob/oven to cook from scratch.

I also wish that the government hadn't closed down the children and family centres who used to run cookery and nutrition classes to help educate people who didn't know how to prepare a nutritious meal.

The people o this friend clapping their hands with delight that the fatty povvos are getting another well deserved kicking for the own good need to f* off.

I'm exhausted from spending all day doing autistic masking whilst suffering from sensory overload. Then you want me to go into a brightly-lit, noisy, piped-music-ridden supermarket and buy a big list of ingredients, many of which taste like Stop and Grow nail varnish, then go home and try to cook?

Not happening. I'll stick with my Huel and meal deals and cheesy chips.

I've had a meltdown in a supermarket in the last six weeks. They are not environments I can be in.

The people o this friend clapping their hands with delight that the fatty povvos are getting another well deserved kicking for the own good need to f* off.

And fatty disabled.

I hate cooking. More than anything else l think? Chopping, stirring, thinking, l just loathe it all. I’m 59 and akways have done.

Ive eaten plenty of ready meals. I have nothing wrong with me.

I know it's only a small part of the issue, but home delivery?

I need gluten-free, so I have to read ingredients. Which is another aspect of the whole "argh, too much" sensory overload panic attack problems.

Certainly on the Sainsbury's site you can get the full ingredients list of any product just that same as in the shop ?

I’m pretty sure labelling laws mean all supermarkets have to list the ingredients on the website when selling online. I actually prefer online shopping from a label-reading perspective as it means I can spend time reading/comparing products and not worrying about blocking the shelf for someone else, and they also have the ingredients for bakery items on the website which they don’t always instore (appreciate these are all out of the question for coeliacs though!)

A prawn salad and some apples and grapes and a Diet Coke isn’t going to make a person obese.

The people o this friend clapping their hands with delight that the fatty povvos are getting another well deserved kicking for the own good need to f off.*

Exactly. They're going to keep scarfing down their naice £4 Gail's chocolate and almond croissants and milky lattes, slamming their Charlie Bigham fish pies into the oven, and eating out at fancy restaurants, safe in the knowledge that high fat, high sugar, high calorie processed food suddenly magically becomes socially and politically acceptable if it happens to be posh and expensive.

Because middle class affluent people are trusted to make their own eating decisions, not like those nasty stupid poors. tinkly laugh

They're not always accurate (I've had things turn up with different ingredient lists and "may contain" warnings on the packet than it had on the site), and the website has a disclaimer saying that it's just for your info, you should always check labels too, etc.

I do do online shopping sometimes (coeliac), but only because I have a human dustbin partner I can pawn off the poisonous stuff to.

Obesity is becoming endemic in the UK. While people shouldn't be fat-shamed, there is a huge difference between that and accepting obesity as a lifestyle choice.
It really shouldn't be 'normal' to accompany a meal with confectionery consisting of almost twice the calories of a bag of crisps, and 5 times that of an apple.
Why isn't there fruit at the meal deal stands, by the way? (Less profit dare I suggest....)