Ozchick, the kids may be responsive, but what about their parents? A whole generation has grown up without the foggiest idea of nutrition, let alone how to cook. I applaud what you're doing, but wonder if the message is getting through to the parents.
You just have to stand behind people in a supermarket queue to see how ready meals, convenience foods and junk have become a staple. I do hope the healthy stuff isn't put into the trolley as an afterthought to appease the interfering wotsits at the kindergarten!

The crazy thing is, it costs more to eat fat-saturated crap than it does to eat healthy food. But most people are frightened to prepared food. they'll watch celebrity chefs until their eyes are square, but a lot of them don't want to touch meat (particularly if it isn;t anonymous and wrapped in cling-film) and don't like the idea of peeling or preparing vegetables. Thus they take the 'easy' option. Christ, I even saw ready-made mashed potatoe in a supermarket chill counter the other day!

Thus people are getting fatter, and the lard-arses are not in the minority any more - particularly in the under-30s. The average women's clothing size in the UK is now a size 14. A decade ago it was a size 12. We eat too much and exercise too little, and are too in thrall to the food companies, and we've brought our kids up to be even more so.

I do worry about too much state interference, however. My own view would be for the government not to act, other than to deny free medical assistance to the obese. Let them die cheaply or pay their own way for their folly. At the least, it will make a bit more room for those of us who look after ourselves.