FabSwingers.com forum: Labour to ban Coco-pops

By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

Ffs. If it's not enough to have a Tory peer tutting over your shoulder, telling you that porridge would be both cheaper and more healthy, now Ed Milliband wants to ban Coco-pops and Frosties. Obviously Cleggy will want me eating croissants, the Greens lentils, and Farage insisting on a proper British fry-up, but isn't breakfast too early for politics? (And shouldn't they be off bothering someone else?)

So what's everyone having for breakfast?

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They will me blowing up parliament if they bloody dare!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

*will have

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

Porridge with a drop of Madagascan vanilla and tropical fruit juice.

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"They will have me blowing up parliament if they bloody dare!!! "

Me too, I fought long and hard for the right for our children to have Frosties. Just waiting for Tony the Tiger to appear on the first party political broadcast:

Conservatives - they're Grrrrrrr.....

Well, maybe 'grrrrr' might be enough!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sausage sarnie then please.

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

tbh honest its probably good if they got rid of it

they sell so much junk food in the supermarkets .we'd all be healthier and the world would be a much better place if they stopped producing all this crap that makings us fat/ill/stupid.

youd soon get used to eating real food again

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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago

Limavady

I agree with banning coco pops. Not for health reasons but because they taste disgusting.

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

youd soon get used to eating real food again "

Ooh, that was close to mrs ddc's attitude with her holier-than-thou Bran Flakes - till I pointed out they are also 20% sugar!

Think it's more about moderation than banning, just driving Coco the monkey underground!

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By *itSamCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

"I agree with banning coco pops. Not for health reasons but because they taste disgusting."

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

youd soon get used to eating real food again

Ooh, that was close to mrs ddc's attitude with her holier-than-thou Bran Flakes - till I pointed out they are also 20% sugar!

Think it's more about moderation than banning, just driving Coco the monkey underground!"

yes and bran flakes are disgusting too.

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"I agree with banning coco pops. Not for health reasons but because they taste disgusting."

What about Frosties, Crunchy nut cornflakes and those strange strawberry pillows that actually taste of cardboard?

You know they won't stop there!

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

yes and bran flakes are disgusting too."

Lol, I actually like to mix cocopops and branflakes, you get a sort of malty, chocolatey 'mars-bar' taste!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I read in the paper that they want to ban peppa pig now as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

WHAT...........?

They will have alot of people outraged if they get rid of Frosties and Coco pops including me. Love having from time to time. Everything in moderation, its about time they realised this!!!

The world has gone mad, next they be telling us to eat grass but then they would probably find that bad for us !

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I like my freedom to choose what I eat and what I can't eat. So, this morning it was...

Porridge and homemade blueberry jam

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"I read in the paper that they want to ban peppa pig now as well. "

Really? Is that a muslim thing, or are we eating too much pepper nowadays?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Actually the comment is that food that is over a third sugar and aimed at kids should be banned.

How or why is that a bad thing?

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By *itSamCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

Apologise if spell check jumped in on any of this. and if it goes on a lot....

It is not down to people eating unhealthy foods that are available. It is choosing what to eat. In moderation you can eat foods with extra sugar in.

There are so many people giving up smoking because they know it is bad for you and there are alternatives.

Rather then ban all the foods make some nice alternatives. People do not make a choice to go out and eat bad foods because they are bad. If there were a lot of healthy tasty alternatives a lot of people would start buying it.

Yep I admit. I drink for two reasons... I have a health problem where my sugar level does drop and regular mouthfuls of during the day does steady it. I could quite easily pour it in a glass but I would drink the whole glass. So a gulp out a bottle is sufficient. The other reason I drink is plainly because I do love it. However there are now some alternatives. Diet drinks used to taste crappy but I do think Pepsi max is not bad and the new in green labels is pretty ok for a healthy option.

Give people and alternative and most will go for it.

You can not ban every tarry food because it is bad. Give replacements and educate. Give options.

Get the government to bring out a no frills recipe book for health tasty stuff with affordable ingredients and easy to prepare. Also a section on how to prepare vegetables and ingredients as a lot of people would not know where to start. A list of good and bad foods.

Salad sandwich ... Healthy or not... Salad yes bread fattening....

Educate people on what actually are good options. If someone try's to eat healthy and see no improvement they will not bother again. Pity if it was because where they ate healthy they did not in another part of their diet.

Some people can not exercise for health or other reasons.

Most people are on the net. Just a simple free government website with information and keep it cheep. Not all people can afford an expensive gym. When they do the cards for free swimming loads of people go. A lot of things are down to cost. When I was young I rode a bike everywhere. These days it is not as safe so kids can not do as much. A neighbours son got mugged and phone stolen (silly muggers advertised it on Facebook and the family went to meet them lol). Someone attempted to mug a family member of mine. It is not as safe.

There are many buildings being knocked down that could be used for things. Imagine an adult themed wacky warehouse. A maze of things to climb over and run round, bit of laser quest and just different rooms with fun things that use up energy. Make it fun. Do people really want to run on a tread mill in a gym for ages. Make it fun, use technology and link up 10 treadmill next to each other with a computer screen and hold races. Have a high score table with everyone who has a go to give an incentive to get higher up. The same with rowing machines.

People will expertise more if it is fun and safe.

People will eat healthier if they are educated on what to buy and how to prepare it.

It is so easy to grab a pile of stuff out of the freezer and dump it in a frier.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I read in the paper that they want to ban peppa pig now as well.

Really? Is that a muslim thing, or are we eating too much pepper nowadays?

It's not si much a muslim thing, it;s more a britain first rumour that is circulated on social media and designed to upset those that are either too gullible or too stupid to question what they read online and get suitably outraged...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Actually the comment is that food that is over a third sugar and aimed at kids should be banned.

How or why is that a bad thing? "

That is a very good thing. There are way too many sugary, fatty things on sale that have become part of our everyday diet instead of being an occasional treat.

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Actually the comment is that food that is over a third sugar and aimed at kids should be banned.

How or why is that a bad thing? "

Nanny state, unforseen effects, more children skipping breakfast and buying a Mars bar instead, back to the days of cornflakes and a bowl of sugar on the table (which increases sugar intake), slippery slope, where do you stop, sugar in 'healthy' snacks, free choice, err can I stop yet?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Detest coco pops.

Evil sugary shite.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That cunt can stay away from my Frosties. grrrrrr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toast here!

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

Well said MitSam, as is so often the case, education is the answer. Without that we have the whole 'low-fat' foods that are actually high in sugar, and sugar-free foods that are high in fat, all that are three times the price of normal food.

Last night I made a lemon merangue roulade with lashes of double cream and sugar, tonight I will be making chips and moroccan burgers. I seldom excercise, but I am 10stone and have a bmi of 22.

Education and moderation.

And enjoy life

(Its the only one we get)

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By *andixxxMan
over a year ago

Gloucester

Agree wholeheartedly!! It's about people's choices....yes supermarkets ramm junk at us with clever advertising,but it's ultimately with the consumer who chooses to purchase said junk...we don't buy Frosties or Coco pops. We've got two small kids and breakfast is usually porridge with jam they've helped to make... The media won't educate us so people have to take their own responsibility.... So to sum it up.... Don't really care if they ban or not .... Would be interesting to see the black market networking selling said products!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"tbh honest its probably good if they got rid of it

they sell so much junk food in the supermarkets .we'd all be healthier and the world would be a much better place if they stopped producing all this crap that makings us fat/ill/stupid.

youd soon get used to eating real food again "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had ginger and chocolate cake :p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seeing all the tubby little shits huffing and puffing on school sports day getting rid of all the over sugary over refined crap can't happen soon enough.

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Good. They're just like having a packet of sweets for breakfast.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ffs. If it's not enough to have a Tory peer tutting over your shoulder, telling you that porridge would be both cheaper and more healthy, now Ed Milliband wants to ban Coco-pops and Frosties. Obviously Cleggy will want me eating croissants, the Greens lentils, and Farage insisting on a proper British fry-up, but isn't breakfast too early for politics? (And shouldn't they be off bothering someone else?)

So what's everyone having for breakfast?

Mr ddc"

Lol they're bang on about porridge to be fair

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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago

here and there, thereabouts

All the things that could be making a real commitment to change and this is what they've got?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A cup of tea with one sugar and a piece of brown toast with strawberry jam.

If it's cold replace tea for jd

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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago

Altrincham

But it's Saturday, so what't this breakfast thing?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sugary breakfast cereals should be advertised differently. Not as a breakfast cereal,I know,sounds stupid but people think they are giving their children a breakfast when it's just a sugary snack. It's quick and easy to make,unlike grilled bacon,scrambled egg poached egg or something on toast. Porridge takes 10 minutes to make

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Seeing all the tubby little shits huffing and puffing on school sports day getting rid of all the over sugary over refined crap can't happen soon enough."

May be these 'tubby little shits' like you call them have health or emotional conditions that you do not know about!

May be they have parents that do not know how to cook! Yes, let's ban oil and butter too because some people fry everything! Let's ban crisps!

You have to educate people and some people are educated but make a conscious decision to eat a certain type of food.

And Children rely on their parents to feed them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've never been one for breakfast, tend to wait and have a decent lunch.

I do think there is too much sugar in processed foods but not sure that banning it is the way forward, maybe regulate it and improve food education so we can start to address the obesity crisis.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Rice krispies all the way

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You have to wonder what goes through politicians minds when they come up with daft ideas like this. Terror threats, unemployment, homelessness, education, poverty,NHS, public services, all that and they focus on frikkin breakfast cereal?! The ridiculous Miliband having a go at the just as ridiculous Cameron this morning over the pay rise, has he forgotten which party landed us in the shite we are in? All politicians should be lined up against a wall and shot. The new batch must have had at least 10 years experience in the real world of business, law etc. before being able to stand, the clowns we have now have no real experience at anything other than being a politician.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lot of people are saying ban sugary foods just to point out jam can be over 50 percent sugar so should that be banned also.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lot of people are saying ban sugary foods just to point out jam can be over 50 percent sugar so should that be banned also. "

There are lots of things which contain loads of sugar, moderation is needed and a lot of education. Unfortunately some people just can't do it, like the 24 stone 18 year old who drinks 4.5 litres of full fat every day

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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago

Limavady

"I agree with banning coco pops. Not for health reasons but because they taste disgusting.

What about Frosties, Crunchy nut cornflakes and those strange strawberry pillows that actually taste of cardboard?

You know they won't stop there!"

Frosties aren't just good, they're grrrreat!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Actually the comment is that food that is over a third sugar and aimed at kids should be banned.

How or why is that a bad thing? "

I thought there'd be more to the story.

I would assume that this is scare tactics to get manufacturers to reduce sugar content. The threat should apply to all foods that contain an excessive amount of sugar.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lot of people are saying ban sugary foods just to point out jam can be over 50 percent sugar so should that be banned also.

Full fat?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lot of people are saying ban sugary foods just to point out jam can be over 50 percent sugar so should that be banned also. "

And sugar which is 100% I assume? Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lot of people are saying ban sugary foods just to point out jam can be over 50 percent sugar so should that be banned also.

Full fat?

Lol - you know what I mean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had frosties for breakfast! Pfft!

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By *antonkid1955Man
over a year ago

cardiff

Porridge.. With dollops of honey..puts fuel in your engine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Porridge.. With dollops of honey..puts fuel in your engine."

Mmm...or plump sultanas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As long as they dont try and ban Cum for breakfast..lol

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

Ban , absolutely not

Hefty sugar tax and health warning "not for kids "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If that Millipede bloke comes anywhere near my Coco Pops - i'll twat him!!!!

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By *horshiperMan
over a year ago

London

I for one will not be voting for them

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By *inCity BluesMan
over a year ago

London

"I read in the paper that they want to ban peppa pig now as well.

Really? Is that a muslim thing, or are we eating too much pepper nowadays?

No, the first guy was right and you are completely wrong. It is not a rumour and it did not originate from Britain First.

It came to light this week, on the BBC 4 Today programme no less, that the Oxford University Press has sent letters to its authors warning them not to use the word pig, sausage or to mention any pork-related products in their works for children.

It calls this "managing cultural sensitivities", which is shorthand for not provoking Muslims to violence.

It's a real thing, not a lie or a rumour, and was reported in the Times, the Guardian, the Independent and countless other papers around the world, some of whom used images of Peppa Pig to illustrate what won't be allowed in future, at least not by the OUP.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Seeing all the tubby little shits huffing and puffing on school sports day getting rid of all the over sugary over refined crap can't happen soon enough.

May be these 'tubby little shits' like you call them have health or emotional conditions that you do not know about!

May be they have parents that do not know how to cook! Yes, let's ban oil and butter too because some people fry everything! Let's ban crisps!

You have to educate people and some people are educated but make a conscious decision to eat a certain type of food.

And Children rely on their parents to feed them.

The same parents who kicked up a stink when the school banned penguins/jammie dodgers/Jaffa cakes from packed lunches and water only, plonking half a dozen teaspoons of sugar in front of them for breakfast is just laziness, and given a choice what kiddie is gonna chose shredded wheat or cornflakes over coco pops?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I feed my kids angel delight for breakfast and nobody can stop me.....not even adults

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I feed my kids angel delight for breakfast and nobody can stop me.....not even adults"

Be my daddy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I feed my kids angel delight for breakfast and nobody can stop me.....not even adults

Be my daddy

smeared all over yer body n licked off

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By *onbons_xxMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Take away the coco-pops, not fussed about them...but step away from the frosties

Although I bought some muesli today for a healthier breakfast bar option, it's about balance right? I might cover them in chocolate though

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Take away the coco-pops, not fussed about them...but step away from the frosties

Although I bought some muesli today for a healthier breakfast bar option, it's about balance right? I might cover them in chocolate though

Go for Nutella Jay lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lately it's been yoghurt and pineapple. Really puts the lead in your pencil.

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