All the foods the Scottish Government plan to make more expensive

[DinnaeFashYersel]

The SNP are about to wage war on the popadom.

Poverty is rampant, NHS and education are in crisis but our government are concentrating on increasing the price of porridge.

In addition the ban on promotions of food our great leaders deem unhealthy they are also going to restrict practices in restaurants

No more ice cream factory puddings for your kids at Pizza Hut or complimentary prawn crackers with your Chinese

In hotels you can still have a buffet breakfast and eat as many sausages and eggs as you like but only one pastry each.

When people are on a low income making treats more expensive will impact both mental and physical health in a negative way.

Can't be treating us like adults, and doing things like cooking in schools, education on nutrition and letting us get on with it. Have to start banning stuff, making it more expensive.

They can fuck right off. Roll on the election and I hope they get a right kicking.

I can't wait for the day they are getting told to get to fuck, however with people voting for them purely for independence, and the Tory Westminster hate, I can't see that happening any time soon. So depressing.

Doesn't Scotland have more pressing problems?and you all know what they are I can't be arsed listing them all.between Humza thinking he's a world leader and this new dictact on food which has the stench of sturgeon about it 'the control factor '.it really is time to be rid of the SNP.

Fucking hell. I wonder if ready made sandwiches and salads come under the ready meal category ?

It's not about whether we personally think buying chocolate or pastries is a good idea or not. It's about deliberately restricting the ability of those on limited budgets to make those choices. Instead of promoting and making the good choices more affordable and allowing free will plus market forces plus education and skills to improve outcomes they'd rather punish people. The supermarket and manufacturers won't give a crap really.

All stick and no carrot.

Not sure, but lots of elderly people rely on ready prepared meals.

Well the sugar tax resulted in sugar being replaced by chemicals in soft drinks, which I think is a hideous solution. I don't drink a huge amount of fizzy drinks, but when I do I want something that tastes nice and isn't full of chemicals - difficult to find now.

Porridge banned in Scotland!!

The face painting loons will be going nuts.😂

Ugh I want independence and hate the tories but am politically homeless. No idea who to vote for, SNP are bonkers as are the greens. Will need to spoil my ballot as I can't vote for any of the others. Scotland is fast becoming a joke.

If SNP say "porridge bad" then it won't be long before the lunatics are spouting the same crap. Gullible, deluded and thick as shit in the neck of a bottle.

@BonnieBairn I'm in exactly the same position. Politically homeless.

I’m baffled at the plain porridge oats. Why? The sweetened or UP types make sense.

I've never seen bags or boxes of plain rolled oats on promotion anyway, the price is the price. It's the sachets that you see on special. You can get the plain version in sachets too, but it's mostly the sugared, flavoured stuff.

Yet another fucking tax dressed up as saving us from ourselves

Absolute fucking loons, the lot of them

You just buy bread, your filling of choice, and you can make sandwiches for a week. Even in a bedsit without a fridge you can buy peanut butter or marmite. No one needs a meal deal.

Thick as shit in the neck of a bottle....I've not heard that in years.. cheers bigboysdontcry.😁😂

This government is the pits

To be fair, and much as I hate implying that the SNP aren't all fucking batshit crazy, there are regulations in England restricting the same classes of food. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1368/contents/made (schedule 1).

At the moment in England, big shops haven't been allowed to display porridge etc prominently since 2022, and they were intending on preventing bogofs too, but delayed that til 2025 'cos of the cost of living etc and because they realized it made them look like miserable wankers . Wales is likely to introduce the same regulations, though may also bring meal deals and temporary reductions into scope like Scotland is consulting on. So yes, Scotland is putting its own Presbyterian stamp on it, but it isn't totally on its own in wanting to limit promotions on these things.

Still don't know what anyone has against proper, oat based porridge though. I honestly thought it was one of the healthiest things you could eat. Which is why it is only palatable made with really creamy milk and drizzled with something sweet and sticky to make it much, much less healthy.

At the moment in England, big shops haven't been allowed to display porridge etc prominently since 2022,

Seriously? I'm going to move to my own island, where I will create a big porridge art installation. Then I will invite all the people who came up with this shite to come over and watch me eat it. And I won't share!

Also says '31. Our proposed approach is consistent with the food categories within scope of the regulations for England and with the Welsh Government's proposed approach, as set out in its consultation.' - never seen your bog standard porridge oats on bogof and I buy them every week and have done for over 15 years

I buy Mornflake rolled oats and in Tesco they are on "Clubcard" price so is that a promotion ? I used to buy Quaker Oat so Simple - again usually when it was bogof in Tesco but only the plain variety - so banning promotions will presumably impact on those and yet these are decent breakfast/snack options.

Anyway I agree - it would be far far better to spend the money on cookery classes in school or in community settings.

Fucks sake my autistic child eats pastry for breakfast daily for ten years this has been a safe breakfast for him he weighs the same as a bag of fluff its not going to hurt him to eat this leave food alone people need to eat

Tax something they don't need like mps second homes or something

I have a friend whose granddaughter has PKU. The campaign to reduce sugar wiped out a significant proportion of foods she could previously eat as they swapped sugar for sweeteners.