Today’s release by government to change children’s diet through school meals and in particular packed lunches may be welcomed by some but will equally cause many family real problems. Parents through time have struggles to provide a balance packed school lunch not an easy task especially if the child is only 4/5 years old. One of the suggestions is an avocado salad I would argue that anyone with a 4 year old would not have the expectations of them managing to cope with this in a school dining hall without a significant amount of help. Also we must remember not all children have developed such a sophisticated palate. We eat to live we eat to enjoy and after sandwiches, fruit or grated vegetable where is the harm in a biscuit or other sweet desert. How many people realise there is more sugar in a fresh apple than in many biscuits or a piece of chocolate. Whilst we need as parents to make our children health conscious it should be a natural event not an obsession to eat a meal and children should not be frightened of going to the school canteen or eating lunch in a classroom for fear of an adult arriving to check and confiscate their food or put a condemned sticker on it. Government ask us to be responsible parents do they not need to leave us to put this into practice or do they want to drive children from school lunches. It would be interesting to see the content of Ed Balls children lunch boxes.