Nutritional meal choices for children in restaurants and cafes.

Nutritional meal choices for children in restaurants and cafes.

The Issue

Children's menu choices in restaurants and cafes are nearly always the same - basic meals lacking in nutritional value and nourishing fresh ingredients. Here are some common choices you may come across : - 

Sausages, chips & beans or peas 

Chicken nuggets, chips & beans or peas 

Fish fingers, chips & beans or peas

Washed down with juice and followed by ice-cream. 

As a result, kids have a poor selection of meals no matter where they go. This can contribute to picky eating, children reluctant to try new things - in addition to the obvious lack of health benefits including the ever growing obesity crisis.

This needs to change. Growing children need nutritional meals and on this basis restaurants and cafes have a duty of care to provide them with more variety, more fruit, more vegetables and an overall a healthy balanced meal. 

 

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The Issue

Children's menu choices in restaurants and cafes are nearly always the same - basic meals lacking in nutritional value and nourishing fresh ingredients. Here are some common choices you may come across : - 

Sausages, chips & beans or peas 

Chicken nuggets, chips & beans or peas 

Fish fingers, chips & beans or peas

Washed down with juice and followed by ice-cream. 

As a result, kids have a poor selection of meals no matter where they go. This can contribute to picky eating, children reluctant to try new things - in addition to the obvious lack of health benefits including the ever growing obesity crisis.

This needs to change. Growing children need nutritional meals and on this basis restaurants and cafes have a duty of care to provide them with more variety, more fruit, more vegetables and an overall a healthy balanced meal. 

 

The Decision Makers

Cafe owners
Cafe owners
UK Public Health
UK Public Health

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Petition created on 22 January 2019