The Scottish government set up a plan to provide free meals for pupils(5 to 7 year olds) in primary school. Every child between the 5 and 7 years old should be able to get a free meal in school by 2010. This project is already being piloted and it seems to work well. The amount of meals taken in school increased from 53% to 75%! The project’s aim is to fight obesities. This growing health-problem can be fought by providing the right diets for children. Children will learn to try new food and will get used to eating healthy food. However, not everyone is convinced. Who is going to pay for these free meals? President of Cosla, Pat Watters, says there is no need to worry because the government has a budget of £40m to provide these meals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7646898.stm
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Sounds like a very good idea. I’m certain that children can be thought to eat heathy food even though they probably wont like some of the food the first time. They will find healthy food which they like and learn to eat what they like less. It is very motivating that the meals are for free. In the beginning it can help to support the project and make it popular. In the end it won’t be necessary to provide the meals for free I think. You can just split the costs in two. One half for the parents and one half for the government. I think most parents will still be enthusiastic when they have to pay so less for their kid’s meal.
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I like the idea but I don’t really think that it would work the way that they have planned. The children will have free meals at school but then they can still choose what they will eat for I don’t think you can only offer one meal.. Not everyone likes the same things. But the child will eat what he likes most and if you have the one kid that only likes one type of food your child will eat the same thing every day at lunch which is not that healthy as well. And then the second issue. Who is going to pay for the free meals? I think the parents should just give the kids a packet of lunch so they can keep track what they are eating and the parents can experiment with all kind of food as well.
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