Dispatches: the truth about your food

...whingers.




Legislation to forces restaurants to disclose the nutritional content of their meals? Great idea! ; alternatively just eat the one meal Does anyone really need to know this stuff?

oh; and I'm eating spaghetti bolognese with mince and sausages, and having a rum & coke at the mo.

[dizzyblonde]

pah.... I eat what I want....and i had spag bol fer tea too. don't have or ever will have anyone telling me what i can and can't eat. Oh and now i'm eating a rather nice selection of terry's chocolates

yeah; I ate 1/2 kilo of beef mince this evening
yum.

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

yeah; I ate 1/2 kilo of beef mince this evening
yum.

which contained about 200g of fat

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

don't have or ever will have anyone telling me what i can and can't eat.

Where did the idea of 'them' telling you what you can and can't eat come from? Disclosing nutritional content isn't remotely the same thing.

It's bad enough these days with people reading every little thing on the back of packets but restaurants as well? So you're saying it's now gonna take 5 times as long for my meal to be brought out because the waiters were too busy dealing with someone giving them the third degree about how much fat that cheese sauce has? no thanks. I'd rather get takeaway

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by MeridiaNx

Where did the idea of 'them' telling you what you can and can't eat come from? Disclosing nutritional content isn't remotely the same thing.

I didn't say 'them' can't see 'them' written in there. I'm just fed up of mad media, government suggestions to 'adult' people how they should eat, or live. I want to eat a meal because it tastes nice and gives me satisfaction. wether it be Mac D's or that banana sat in my fruit bowl. I know the nutritional content of m d's is crap, I know a banana is good for me. I don't need it in writing. However, If I want my son to eat healthy or not is up to me. I am the one to educate him not some bloke in an office on the big brother health kick. Great to keep kids in the know, fair enough, but I'm big enough to make my own mind up.

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

It's bad enough these days with people reading every little thing on the back of packets but restaurants as well? So you're saying it's now gonna take 5 times as long for my meal to be brought out because the waiters were too busy dealing with someone giving them the third degree about how much fat that cheese sauce has? no thanks. I'd rather get takeaway

And no I wouldn't want that either.

Oh and no I'm not some fat bloater that sits in an armchair all day neither. I'm a slim bloater that sits in an armchair all day....lol
who incidently spent ten years as a gymnast, then a few running. and my body is foobarred from
a- being hypermobile
b- doing far too much exercise




there i feel better now...rant over and back to the box of chocs and a big cuppa with full fat milk

Personally I think its a great idea, most fast food place already have the info. I don't think it should be on the menu but I think it should be available if people want to know, seriously overweight people obviously have a problem controlling what they eat and if they can be offered the information it might make them think.

I dont think this is about telling people what they can eat, that would probaly come under the "fat tax" which has been mentioned in the press, it just lets the less well informed of us have a choice.

Since tesco started making there home brand food there are a few things which I now dont buy, pork pies etc because I dont want to eat a 500 calorie snack. Which didn't taste that good in the first place anyway.

After all you have a choice not to read the labels in the first place

[dizzyblonde]

to me its a case of where does this whole thing end?? at the end of the day all the writing in the world can't stop a person putting what they want to eat in their mouth. No matter how much they know whats in it, even after reading the small print, some people will still eat it. thing is though, you can only get an average of what 'said meal' has within it anyway.

I'd far rather Jaime Oliver, that i'm watching now, put a show on about the lives of chickens, they don't have a choice in their lives, we do it for them.

Or make everyone watch 'super size me' because thats a more entertaining way of displaying the facts about naff food