Government’s plan to ban junk food adverts before 9pm ‘will cut just TWO calories a day’

Banning junk food adverts before the watershed will only cut two calories from a child’s diet a day, research shows.   The Government revealed plans in March to restrict advertising of foods high in salt, fat and sugar on television and social media until after 9pm.  They hoped the strict rules would curb soaring childhood obesity … Read more

Traffic wardens in Kent deliver food parcels instead of parking tickets during coronavirus lockdown

Why are we still paying them if traffic is 80% down? Parking wardens are being kept on full wages despite fewer cars on the roads and parking rules scaled back across the country Traffic wardens in Kent stopped issuing parking tickets to deliver food parcels  Traffic is down 80 per cent so wardens can get supplies … Read more

Traffic wardens in Kent deliver food parcels instead of parking tickets during coronavirus lockdown

Why are we still paying them if traffic is 80% down? Parking wardens are being kept on full wages despite fewer cars on the road and car park and street parking costs suspended Traffic wardens in Kent stopped issuing parking tickets to deliver food parcels  Traffic is down 80 per cent so wardens can get supplies … Read more

Pensioner, 84, on lockdown due to the coronavirus is forced to eat old food from her BIN

Pensioner, 84, on lockdown due to the coronavirus is forced to eat old food from her BIN after thief steals supplies from her doorstep Woman police named ‘Elizabeth’ had been staying at home due to Covid-19  Had been doing her shopping online to avoid busy supermarkets in London Her supplies were stolen from the doorstep … Read more

Fears of food shortages unless an extra 40,000 people volunteer to pick crops

The UK faces food shortages unless 70,000 Britons ‘do their duty’ by harvesting the country’s fruit and vegetables for £15-an-hour with the global pandemic also disrupting the flow of imported goods, MailOnline can reveal today. More than 30,000 people have asked to join a new ‘Land Army’ to ‘pick for Britain’ and ‘feed the nation’ … Read more

Health claims on children’s food ‘are confusing’, study finds

Nearly half of foods and drinks marketed at UK children are less healthy than they claim, a study found. Health and nutrition messages on fruit-based snacks, juices, yoghurts, cereals and ready meals are ‘confusing’ or misleading parents. Three quarters of those which claimed to contain ‘one of five a day’ fruit and vegetables did not … Read more

Banks blocking payments for shoppers buying food online for first time

Thousands of first-time online shopping customers risk having vital deliveries cancelled, a Money Mail investigation can reveal. Many elderly and vulnerable households have been forced to turn to the internet for their essentials, having perhaps never shopped online before.  But major flaws with security checks have led to some banks mistakenly flagging the transactions as … Read more

Food rich in vitamin D such as cheese and oily fish is good for the heart, research shows

Food rich in vitamin D such as cheese and oily fish is good for the heart, research shows Scientists have found vitamin-D foods may protect against heart attack or stroke The results come as great news for lovers of of cheese, eggs and oily fish  Increasing intake of vitamin D in food, rather than supplements, … Read more

‘He loves his food!’ Gregg Wallace, 55, says baby son Sid takes after him

He welcomed his first child with wife Anna in May 2019. And Gregg Wallace has sweetly revealed that his baby son Sid, 11-months, takes after him as he ‘loves his food’. The MasterChef star, 55, also spoke about his recent four stone weight loss and admitted he wants to get down to 15% bodyfat. Like father, … Read more

Airline passengers of the future could order food on phones and collect it from on-board lockers 

The end of the food and drinks trolley? In the future passengers could order meals on their phones and collect them from on-board lockers Seattle-based design firm Teague wants to transform aircraft galleys from kitchens into retail space areas   It also wants to move airline food storage and warming from the galley and into the … Read more