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"Growing Up in Scotland: Overweight, obesity and activity
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Children as young as two are being referred to a specialist weight programme to help combat their obesity.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that NHS Lothian has spent close to £500,000 in the last two years on a children’s weight management service.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/kids-as-young-as-two-referred-to-500k-obesity-programme-1-4551839
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I made a rare trip to ASDA through the week as we happened to be passing and I needed mildew spray (I obviously am enough of a snob that I feel compelled to justify a trip to ASDA).
Anyway, the big new product launch was 3 pizzas.
The macaroni cheese pizza (a pizza topped with macaroni cheese)
The kebab pizza (a pizza topped with donner meat and more cheese)
The chips and cheese pizza (a pizza topped with chips and cheese).All your daily recommended goodness for just £4.
Not unique to Scotland I know but supermarkets who are squarely aiming themselves at the lower income, mass-market brackets have a lot to answer for.
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...I find myself intrigued by pizzas #A and #B. (Not #C, because cheese on chips is basically a missing verse in Leviticus.)
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Yebbut. They have food "traffic light" labelling innit? Consumer choice and awrat. Nothing to do with Asda guv.
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I am proud to say that I have been to Quebec City and refused to eat poutine. (Ditto every other Canadian province except Prince Edward Island - & that only because I haven't been there yet.)
NB I also hate chips and gravy. And chips and curry sauce. Basically I'm a chip puritan.
ETA I followed your link and now I feel soiled. Chips should not suffer like that!
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"(I obviously am enough of a snob that I feel compelled to justify a trip to ASDA)."
Wait until mini-mappers needs a school uniform or three and then Asda will suddenly seem more appealing...
Oh it's easy to get to by bike, which is A Good Thing.
"chips and curry sauce" Normally and just a salt (maybe with "sauce" i.e. "salt'n'sauce") chip eater. But for curry sauce I will make an exception, as long as no other dish apart from pommes frites is marinaded in said sauce.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Asda seems expensive since switching to Aldi.
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"Asda seems expensive since switching to Aldi."
Almost as cheap as LiDL for some items. Cheapest by far on school uniforms. Admittedly, M&S stuff is nicer, but if you have two kids who keep growing Asda saves a few bob (even after accounting for hand-me-downs).
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Acceptable chip condiments - okay seems maybe I'm not as much of a puritan as I thought because all of these are ok:
salt (boring and dry but eh)
salt & sauce (obviously the best)
salt & vinegar
ketchup
tartar sauce (wasted on fish)
mayonnaise (only just though, unless it's the spicy sort)NB I'm in no way procrastinating this afternoon.
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salt & sauce (obviously the best)
Aye, but fit colour is it?
EDIT: I now see you've distinguished between "sauce" and "ketchup", nevermind.
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"ketchup
tartar sauce (wasted on fish)
mayonnaise (only just though, unless it's the spicy sort)"NO.
(Unless you are Belgian or American, then I suppose you can do these things to your "fries")
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@unhurt I must admit I've tried a macaroni pizza once before as I saw it in Sainsburys and I was feeling like a pig.
I love pizza.
I love macaroni.The two streams must never be crossed. It's neither a good pizza or a good macaroni, multiplying the two together has a negative effect and it's worse than a bad pizza or a bad macaroni.
My other half (a West Coaster) bought me chips in Lanark and asked for brown sauce on them, not realising it's totally not the same as chippy sauce.
I have eaten poutine in Montreal but not Quebec City.
If there's a spiritual home for macaroni I will go eat it there.
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salt and sauce
Nope.
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If there's a spiritual home for macaroni I will go eat it there.
That's in Livingston, isn't it?
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NO.
Nope.
Centuries later people still spoke only in hushed tones of the Great CCE Condiment Schism of 2017 and the purges that followed.
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@kaputnik: that is disappointing. Though maybe it was down to the poor quality of either the macaroni, the pizza, or both? /hopeful
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RULES No personal insults. No swearing. No speaking of chip condiments.
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I still insist on salt and vinegar to underline the fact that I'm not from around here.
At home I'll use Dijon mustard as a nod to a place where, thanked be fortune, chips hath been otherwise twenty times better.
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Sauce, what is that? Thick vinegar? It is rubbish but I am west coast
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For the ill-informed west coast interlopers in our midst, sauce is brown sauce thinned with water and not vinegar. Come on! You didn't think Edinburgh chippys would water down the sauce with anything but water, did you?
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I think it's telling that it's just got the generic name "sauce". Not good enough go to have its own name.
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@kaputnik I might have to agree to that.
@stickman Calumny!
@gembo See the note above re: purges. Don't think this has gone unnoticed!
@Iwrats If I were a chip I would flee from Dijon mustard too.
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I drafted a new law on my elephantbike ride home from nursery up Leith Walk, Iona Street and Easter Road along the lines of all products with a work that is/looks/sounds like "fruit" have to actually be a piece of fruit. I specifically refer to rubbish like Froot Shoots and Fruit Winders. You can buy the same stuff at a higher price point with a bear on the packet.
I was pretty annoyed with the world given the state of the driving and parking, it has to be said, so some internal nanny-statism soothed my rage.
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Shadow Health Secretary, Miles Briggs MSP, said that the suggested involvement of health visitors who are named persons will also raise fears that the strategy risks being perceived as a nanny state intervention.
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"Don't think this has gone unnoticed!"
Little black books are being filled with lists of names as we speak.
Snatch squads in black mariahs are combing the streets for signs of subversive activity.
The purges will soon begin.
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@crowriver Exactly - they'll even have a soundtrack.
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