Looks like UK schools are actually asking for more crappy food to be sold on the premises. Isn't that lovely.

Eat like the English

Apparently about 4000 lives a year could be saved if the Scottish and the Welsh ate "more like the English".

Sensationalist and hardly groundbreaking, as the article goes on to define that as simply eating more fruit and veg.

As a person living in Wales, I tend to agree. I know more than a handful of fully grown adults who flat out refuse to eat 95% of vegetables I can think of. But what's behind this? On one of my grouchier days, I would simply call them childish....but even children eat vegetables!

We need to get people excited about vegetables again.

Here's a link to a fantastic broccoli stir-fry to get you started!

Nutritional Labels

This ties in with one of my pet peeves (at least food related ones)-- people don't read food labels unless they are centrally placed.

Companies seem to be hiding their labels in smaller and smaller writing--I know with some packaging that is necessary, but it's still frustrating. Not to mention that even when the average person reads a list of ingredients or nutritional label, the odds are they won't know what a good percentage of the information actually means.