Newspaper article

If you go to the supermarket there are so many people who are afraid to buy things like Tesco or Sainsbury’s own brand products because they think that it makes them look poor, even though it tastes the same as the expensive brands. Also where you shop is a social statement because it puts you in your place. Rich people have probably never been in Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s, they go to the expensive shops such as Mark’s & Spencer’s because it doesn’t make them look cheap. In reality they are just paying more for the same product that you would probably get half the price in Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s. They are just wasting their money. Some people can’t even be bothered to go to get their food. Indian and Chinese restaurants deliver to your door and some people even do their weekly shopping at Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s without even leaving their house. All they do is go and sit at a computer and pick what they want from the store and then they get someone to come and deliver it to your door. Are we getting really lazy? Or are we just getting pre-occupied by other things?

     When you go into a supermarket all you can see is pre-packed meals because it is so much easier for parents to do instead of cooking things from scratch. Fast food and pre-packaged meals are giving Britain a bad name for its food. Everyday we are turning more and more into America, and we don’t want to even speak of American food, let alone compare ourselves to it. Britain used to be known for their Sunday roast and full English breakfast, but we are fast becoming known for fast food.

     Parents are trying so hard to keep the tradition of eating at the table, but televisions, mobiles, computers and all of the other technology is taking over our lives, and sofa meals are becoming so much more common. It appears that there is nothing parents can do about it. The only good thing you can really say about fast food restaurants is that it gets children to sit at a table, but you can’t really call it table manners because you’ve no other choice but to eat with your fingers, because there are no knives or forks. These days children snack a lot between meals and it’s not always a piece of fruit. It’s usually a chocolate bar or a packet of crisps and we wonder why the obisity rate is becoming a big problem

       Britain really needs to look at what is happening to them. Do we really want to be the most obese country in the world? ….Most probably not.