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Offline loulou

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« on: November 25, 2006, 10:58:56 pm »
Pregnant women and toddlers from low income families are to get free fruit and vegetables under a new scheme.

The government's Healthy Start scheme will provide parents with vouchers to buy fruit and vegetables, as well as milk and formula for babies.

The vouchers will be worth £2.80 per week and made available for pregnant women and families with children aged between one and four.

People with children under a year old will get two vouchers each week.

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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2006, 09:32:02 am »
This is an excellent scheme. Well done to the Government.
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2006, 12:30:57 pm »
They'll probably still spend them at McDonalds

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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2006, 12:33:00 pm »
£2.80 won't buy very much fruit and veg.
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« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2006, 12:39:48 pm »
It's part of Tony Blair's swan song campaign to be remembered for something else other than buggering up Iraq. The super nanny thing is part of the same scheme.  Why couldn't they have done this five years ago and spent more money on it?  The man is a fraud and his government are a bunch of t**sers.  I wish I could say the Torys would be better.  Maybe it's time to give the Lib Dems a chance?

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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2006, 12:40:48 pm »
I see myself agreeing with you twice in one week bounty.
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« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2006, 12:44:01 pm »
Gordon Bennett!  

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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2006, 01:20:28 pm »
I think Labour has done a great deal of good but bombing Iraq was not one of them.
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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2006, 10:05:31 pm »

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They'll probably still spend them at McDonalds


Yeah, that's right. McDonalds are going to take government fruit and veg vouchers. I suppose they'll start taking chocolate coins and fresh air too.

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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2006, 10:08:00 pm »

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£2.80 won't buy very much fruit and veg.


You can buy a big bag of own brand carrots for about 50 or 60p. Tesco have huge sacks of potatoes for 74p. You can even get more expensive stuff like parsnips for about £1.50 a bag. In any case, the idea isn't that you necessarily buy all your fruit and veg for the week with it - it's just a bit extra.

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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2006, 01:20:21 am »
As long as they get an apple a day and a casserole on a Friday.
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« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2006, 08:52:18 pm »

Free Fruit and Veg for the poor?????


I would like to make a couple of points here if I may as I am one of those people who will be getting the vouchers from the healthy start scheme.


The first point I would like to make is that I have strong objections to being labelled 'POOR'.


I am neither a state sponger nor am I destitute.


The second point is that I have never even been into a McDonalds in my life, and neither have any of my children. NEVER. We have far too much respect for our bodies than to eat in places like that.


We eat no fast food. No McDonalds. No Pizza Hut. No Burger King and no Kentucky Fried Chicken.


I think it is a sad reflection on our society that people still think of people like me as 'The Poor', simply because we are not as well off as others. As for the idea that all mothers of low income families spend all their money feeding their children crap, well honestly I would laugh if it didn't make me feel so much like crying....


'They'll probably still spend them at McDonalds'. What am I supposed to say to this????


Perhaps "Not if my dealer will take them for heroin??????"


I think this scheme has the potential to be one of the finest additions to the welfare bill in this country for many years. I only hope that it is given a fair chance by whoever takes over the reins when Tony Blair retires from office.


 


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« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2006, 09:21:59 pm »
 Apple Calm down and have an apple.





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« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2006, 09:56:07 pm »

I am perfectly calm thankyou.


I think if you are going to be personal about total strangers you might at least be realistic enough to expect some of them to object to it.


 Assumptions were made and I corrected them. It is that simple.


Not all people are the same. Sometimes I think it is good for everyone to be reminded of that fact.


And thanks to Tony Blair, I can now afford to buy my own apples. But thankyou very much for your offer.


 


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« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2006, 10:32:14 am »
I take my hat off to you Velvet. I hope you enjoy the 'fruits' of this scheme if you'll aprdon the pun.
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