Parents have slammed free school meals that their children are getting amid lockdown as they called the meals ‘unhealthy’ and ‘too small’.
Even after the schools being closed amid coronavirus lockdown, local authorities are providing children free school meals.
However, parents are not at all impressed and slammed the free school meals, calling them ‘unhealthy’ and ‘too small’.
Parents have shared the pictures of the free school meals and criticized the meals online as one mother got bread, a bag of cereal, baked beans, four eggs, a bag of pasta and a selection of spreads for her child’s food ration for the week.
While another parent got a handful of pasta and no fresh fruit or vegetables. They said they didn’t even get cheese.
A parent from Hastings told the Sun Online: “They’ve only given me a handful of pasta and my son is 13 for god’s sake.”
“There’s no fruit and veg and not even cheese or something.”
A mother from Barking and Dagenham, East London has told that the food her eight-year-old got was unhealthy and she complained about the free meal to the primary school.
The mother is very upset after getting the free meal as she said if she sends her kid with such an unhealthy meal, the school immediately removes it but they are doing the same now.
She said: “I’m really angry because if I sent my child in with a packed lunch and deemed it unhealthy they would have removed it from the lunch, and this is what they’re giving us.”
She said the food is not enough for families with more than one child and is not healthy at all.
However, the mother was told it was “government-issued and that was it”.
In order to prevent the virus from spreading, the schools have been closed and children are getting their free school meals at their home.
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