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dingsy · Moderator Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 931 Location: Devon

How disgusting is this?

Heart Attack in a Box", from "The Scotsman":

"MOVE over deep-fried Mars Bar, here comes the Munchy Box. A pizza box stuffed with as much as 2,200 calories-worth of assorted fast food has emerged as the latest lunchtime treat for Scotland's schoolchildren.
The boxes sell for £4 to £5, can contain as much as 150 grams of artery-clogging fat, and typically include doner meat, chips, cheese, pakora and –if you're lucky – a token smattering of salad.

Officials in Glasgow are so concerned by lunchtime sales of the boxes to children that they are buying samples to test for nutritional content and will use the results to attempt to badger fast food sellers into changing recipes and portion sizes.

"It is my understanding this is not an uncommon lunch for some kids," said one source at the council, which is desperately trying to ditch its "junk food city" image for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Munchy Boxes are a well-established evening treat for grown-ups but reports of lunchtime sales to children have proved too much for council officials.

One spot check on a Munchy Box revealed it contained 136 grams of fat – close to what a normal teenager should be consuming in two days rather than one dinner – and 1,224 calories. A box purchased by this newspaper was estimated to contain in excess of 140 grams of fat and as many as 2,200 calories.

BOX'S PRICE: £5.50
CONTAINS: Cheese and tomato pizza, one slice. 75g

Garlic bread, one slice. 30g

Three vegetable pakora, double deep-fried. Total 100g

Three chicken pakora, double deep-fried. Total 90g

Doner meat, lashed with kebab sauce. 150g

Chips, one portion. 160g

Salad, mostly limp lettuce and freshly cut onion rings. 50g

Tomato sauce. 80g

Calories: 2,218kcal

Total fat: 148.3g

Saturated fat: 38.9g

Sugar: 53.2g

Salt: 12.45g

For an adult male, this is:

87% of recommended daily calories; 148% of recommended daily fat intake; 123% of recommended daily saturated fat intake; 72% of recommended daily sugar intake; 207% of recommended daily salt intake

Nannyp · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject:

Sounds like someone decided to come up with something for when the dope smokers get the "Munchies" !! I can see why it would work for adults who have either drunk too much or smoked dope......it ought to have an age limit on it

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MissMuppet · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:29 am Post subject:

Blimey... this isn't good, can understand the market they were looking at but for kids to be buying them, it's awful!
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milkmaid · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject:

not every where here lewis has 3 schools ,that are ownly serving local produced food ,i'm sure they'll get fed up with lamb,mutton and fish q14

,other food for schools is cooked in the schools ,and apart from stornoway there are no fast food places ,but there is nothing quite like a 3 week hung piece of highland steak ,cooked rare q12

my children had 1 deep fried mars bar once ,i didn't know about till they got home they had it at southsea seafront

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