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.

Lol at link above. I don't find it too exhausting to make a quick sandwich or wrap and toss some fruit or veg sticks into a baggie. Tesco carrot batons are useful. It's so much healthier than eating 500 calorie sandwiches or pasta salad full of mayo.

I also take plain yoghurt in a small sealed container. Or nuts. Or cheese slices.

Yes, the bread is processed, but all my other meals at home are not, so it's ok. Mostly sourdough bread anyway.

I do eat crisps but on the weekend when I have a treat.

Thats a really weird article and take on home made lunches.

I take in a home made lunch every day, it is usually either a batch cooked meal specifically designed for my work lunches or left overs from a previous dinner, perfectly lovely and not at all depressing

I do wonder what world people live in sometimes.

I think the 'exhausting' bit is the research/narrative that if you take your own lunch into work, you dont by default take a break away (becuase you dont have to go anywhere to get your lunch). Its not claiming that a person is exhausted because they make their own lunch (I think)

Its the only bit of the article that makes any sense, the rest is a load of rubbish.

I think the 'exhausting' bit is the research/narrative that if you take your own lunch into work, you dont by default take a break away (becuase you dont have to go anywhere to get your lunch). Its not claiming that a person is exhausted because they make their own lunch (I think)

That very much depends on your job / workplace though. I have a much nicer and more relaxing lunch break sitting eating and chatting with my colleagues than I would schlepping into town to buy a sandwich! What a weird article. The writer sounds like she's only worked with horrible people!

This author is talking about people being exhausting, not food.

I can think of times in my own life when the break room has been a no-go area for me.

On building sites, as one of three women in a workplace with hundreds of men, some of whom hadn't got the memo about workplace sexual harassment being illegal. In IT desktop support, where I couldn't eat my lunch without several people wanting to talk to me about their computer problem without logging a service desk ticket first. In any job at all if my tolerance for people is particularly low that day, because I'm autistic and people are troublesome at the best of times.

I end up eating "al desko" or going out for food because the break room is worse. I remember getting an utter bollocking for eating my mum's healthy home-made fish pie at my desk because of the smell. No one has ever yet complained about the smell from a Tesco meal deal sandwich fruit, and Costa coffee combination.

Anyone seen todays reports about hospital food? Care home food (which i mentioned upthread) was mentioned as well.