Do you think this is irresponsible?

[CountessDracula]

Just noticed Greggs the baker round the corner from my work are advertising a special lunch deal - 2 x Jumbo Sausage Rolls, a can of coke and a doughnut for £2.

That doesn't seem to offer a healthy balanced diet to me. In fact I think it is outrageous that they can call it a meal, it is just a really unhealthy pig-out. They harp on about social responsibility on their website but obviously this doesn't extend to their customers.

Shall I complain to them?

I agree with CD. There is nothing wrong with these foods per se, they can all be eaten from time to time, but it is the promotion of them as a "meal" which sort of feels different.

CD - have you read Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation'? He points out that MacD's et al started 'supersizing' portions and putting together special offers like the one you saw at about the time that obesity really took off in the US. Special offers like this one are meant to tempt people to buy more than they would otherwise have done. Some of the fast food chains have recognised this link with obesity and have agreed to do fewer of these supersizing and BOGOF offers. If the fast food chains recognise the problem, then I hardly think it's objectionable for you to do so, too. There IS a link between junk food and obesity; people on low incomes eat more junk food than people on high incomes; and there is a clear link between income and life expectancy, especially because of differential incidence of cardiovascular disease. I worry about this much more than I do about a 'nanny state'. Presumably some Victorians thought that promoting clean water to reduce the incidence of cholera was nannying people, too.

Yes I have read it and it is scary stuff. Don't want this country to go the way of the US with big wobbly bottoms everywhere! Not fair on the kids either, make me cringe to see the really fat children stuffing their faces with lardy crap.

(not that my bottom is altogether un-wobbly)

sandwiches are pretty fattening (well the commercially bought ones anyway)
a gingsters sausage roll is something like 15 ww points

Not all of them are fio

I try and make my own then I can control what goes into them. I made dh's yesterday and cut out a little heart, wrote "be my valentine xx" on it and hid it in his sandwich. Last night he said "pls can I not have any of that horrible red lettuce again" LOL what a twat!

I agree with Oldiemum and I think you should write to them - yeah, sure we can all choose to eat crap, but I think the issue of being force fed supersize portions is a valid one.

PMSL at CDs Dh!!!

pmsl CD

no I meant the sandwiches with gobbings of full fat myo and all other fattening rubbish in them

just jealous really as I have to buy from the 'shapers' section

shapers taste rank tho!

Make your own, much much healthier (obv depending upon what you put in them!)

I think Trifle's post shows that whatever we say about free choice, individual responsibility etc, it is more likely to be people in 'low earning hard manual jobs' who are financially ripped off and surviving on low-nutrition foods - free choice to be ripped off? greggs are clearly making a great contribution to freedom.

I do 'usually' make my own darling

good I shan't have to come round and smack your wobbly bottom then