Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s suggestion of a Marmite sandwich and an apple for lunch wouldn’t keep a child full or feed their brain sufficiently, according to local health and education experts.
“If you’re just doing a Marmite sandwich and an apple, you’re probably not meeting the protein requirements [which depend on age and gender],” paediatric dietician Jenny Douglas explained to RNZ.
“Ideally it would be a Marmite and cheese sandwich at least,” she said, noting that the high salt content of Marmite, which could shape one’s palate, giving a child a taste for salty snacks like pies and chips early on.
This lot, honestly.
With regard to the school lunches, all they had to do was … nothing! Maybe increase buying power a bit to reduce costs slightly, but the school lunches were lauded as being fantastic.
Not much different from the ferry fiasco.
$300 million to cancel the project, it would have been cheaper to take delivery then sell them.
Exactly, and now we will pay more for less, won’t have rail enabled ferries (fuck SI rail I guess), and will have to replace them sooner because they won’t fit growing demand.