Comments on: Fruit at work study http://littlegreenblog.com/family-and-food/nutrition/fruit-at-work-study/ natural health, wellness and caring for the environment Mon, 21 May 2012 18:15:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 hourly 1 By: Mrs Green http://littlegreenblog.com/family-and-food/nutrition/fruit-at-work-study/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Mrs Green Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:07:21 +0000 http://littlegreenblog.com/?p=1338#comment-405 Hi again Jon, you make a great comment about people 'not affording' fruit and then going on to buy chocolate and crisps. I guess we can all find the money to buy the things we place the most value on. ;) It would be wonderful to see this taking place in schools. Around here, in the primary schools, fruit is given at snack time for the first couple of years or so and there is no chocolate or crisps to be put in lunchboxes. Obviously staff cannot enforce a move, but it's a good start. A ranking system for school canteens would be interesting; but in some of the rural schools around here they don't even have a canteen - meals are bought in from outside caterers on plastic 'airplane' style trays! Do you have much to do with the schools in your area? What are the meals like? Hi again Jon, you make a great comment about people ‘not affording’ fruit and then going on to buy chocolate and crisps. I guess we can all find the money to buy the things we place the most value on. ;)

It would be wonderful to see this taking place in schools. Around here, in the primary schools, fruit is given at snack time for the first couple of years or so and there is no chocolate or crisps to be put in lunchboxes.

Obviously staff cannot enforce a move, but it’s a good start.

A ranking system for school canteens would be interesting; but in some of the rural schools around here they don’t even have a canteen - meals are bought in from outside caterers on plastic ‘airplane’ style trays!

Do you have much to do with the schools in your area? What are the meals like?

]]> By: Jon http://littlegreenblog.com/family-and-food/nutrition/fruit-at-work-study/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Jon Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:42:14 +0000 http://littlegreenblog.com/?p=1338#comment-401 It's surprising how many people say they can't afford fruit when they will happily consume a chocolate bar and a packet of crisps with their shop bought coffee. So many high streets are lacking greengrocers leaving a poor choice in small shops. This is a really good experiment - I hope schools are able to participate too. No chocolate, crisps and soft drinks. There must be studies comparing the school canteen menu's with school ranking. Can we have a ranking system for school canteens? It’s surprising how many people say they can’t afford fruit when they will happily consume a chocolate bar and a packet of crisps with their shop bought coffee.

So many high streets are lacking greengrocers leaving a poor choice in small shops.

This is a really good experiment - I hope schools are able to participate too. No chocolate, crisps and soft drinks.

There must be studies comparing the school canteen menu’s with school ranking.

Can we have a ranking system for school canteens?

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