Tesco's recently-revealed plans to get rid of drinks with added sugar from their stores, in a bid to cut down on childhood obesity, has been mocked on social media.
Tesco website
Not available on their site.......they were serious.
I cannot believe it.
Ribena ?
Ribena ?
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
Ribena ?
Bruv;1483585 wrote: Tesco's recently-revealed plans to get rid of drinks with added sugar from their stores, in a bid to cut down on childhood obesity, has been mocked on social media.
Tesco website
Not available on their site.......they were serious.
I cannot believe it.
In that case, maybe they should withdraw most canned food also, as it often has a high salt content. What about chocolate snacks? Alcohol?
Even if you don't drink or smoke, you're not guaranteed to live to 100, but it'll feel like it!
One of the secrets to a healthy life is taking enough exercise to burn off the calories.
Tesco website
Not available on their site.......they were serious.
I cannot believe it.
In that case, maybe they should withdraw most canned food also, as it often has a high salt content. What about chocolate snacks? Alcohol?
Even if you don't drink or smoke, you're not guaranteed to live to 100, but it'll feel like it!
One of the secrets to a healthy life is taking enough exercise to burn off the calories.
" To finish first, first you have to finish!" Rick Mears. 4x Winner Indy 500. 3x Indycar National Champion.
Ribena ?
I dont get the reason for Ribena alone. Every soft drink available is stuffed full of sugar. Coke, Pepsi, iced tea, flavoured water, the lot. What peculiarly exceptional about Ribena. Its hardly the only soft drink kids drink.
Why stop there. Energy drinks are in a league of there own with both sugar and caffine at levels high enough to cause health concerns
Why stop there. Energy drinks are in a league of there own with both sugar and caffine at levels high enough to cause health concerns
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
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Ribena ?
Smaug;1483587 wrote: In that case, maybe they should withdraw most canned food also, as it often has a high salt content. What about chocolate snacks? Alcohol?
Even if you don't drink or smoke, you're not guaranteed to live to 100, but it'll feel like it!
One of the secrets to a healthy life is taking enough exercise to burn off the calories.
You just have to go further in the drinks range they stock.....SunnyD
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Foods to avoid
I am wondering what Ribena makers did to upset Tesco
Even if you don't drink or smoke, you're not guaranteed to live to 100, but it'll feel like it!
One of the secrets to a healthy life is taking enough exercise to burn off the calories.
You just have to go further in the drinks range they stock.....SunnyD
Designed to decieve
Foods to avoid
I am wondering what Ribena makers did to upset Tesco
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
Ribena ?
Sunny D. That was banned here for a while. The most hideous stuff known to mankind. They store it offshore in oil drums for environmental reasons
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
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Ribena ?
If you read all the comments, right at the bottom is one from Tesco that point out that it's only the Lunch Box sizes they're withdrawing.
Personally I believe that what Tesco is doing is very laudable. What they're doing may only be a small step, but as they say, every little helps. Furthermore, don't forget they also took the step, quite some time ago, to remove sugar filled children targeted items at the checkouts & have replaced them with healthy snacks, such as nuts & muesli bars & the like. Surely every parent is familiar with the screaming kids when they see the sweets at the till & start having a tantrum that they want them, blackmailing the parents into getting some. At least now if they start having a tantrum, what they'll be getting is good for them.
How about looking at the positive side for a change?
Personally I believe that what Tesco is doing is very laudable. What they're doing may only be a small step, but as they say, every little helps. Furthermore, don't forget they also took the step, quite some time ago, to remove sugar filled children targeted items at the checkouts & have replaced them with healthy snacks, such as nuts & muesli bars & the like. Surely every parent is familiar with the screaming kids when they see the sweets at the till & start having a tantrum that they want them, blackmailing the parents into getting some. At least now if they start having a tantrum, what they'll be getting is good for them.
How about looking at the positive side for a change?
Ribena ?
FourPart;1483600 wrote: If you read all the comments, right at the bottom is one from Tesco that point out that it's only the Lunch Box sizes they're withdrawing.
Personally I believe that what Tesco is doing is very laudable. What they're doing may only be a small step, but as they say, every little helps. Furthermore, don't forget they also took the step, quite some time ago, to remove sugar filled children targeted items at the checkouts & have replaced them with healthy snacks, such as nuts & muesli bars & the like. Surely every parent is familiar with the screaming kids when they see the sweets at the till & start having a tantrum that they want them, blackmailing the parents into getting some. At least now if they start having a tantrum, what they'll be getting is good for them.
How about looking at the positive side for a change?
Totally agree about the choccy snacks near the checkout. I've always thought that was a cynical marketing ploy, rather like the plethora of toy adverts before the water-shed, and towards Christmas. Methinks Tesco may be trying to promote their "own brands" instead. This, of course, could backfire if people don't want to buy Tesco products.
Tesco have been pretty spectacularly down on profit recently, but I'll bet the "bigwigs" still get a nice, fat bonus for their failure, rather like those scumball bankers!
As regards sugary drinks, I'd rather have SUGAR as a sweetener, rather than some weird and wonderful artificial muck. The key to not getting fat is simple; EXERCISE!
( unless there is some underlying medical condition, or physical/mental dis-advantage).
Personally I believe that what Tesco is doing is very laudable. What they're doing may only be a small step, but as they say, every little helps. Furthermore, don't forget they also took the step, quite some time ago, to remove sugar filled children targeted items at the checkouts & have replaced them with healthy snacks, such as nuts & muesli bars & the like. Surely every parent is familiar with the screaming kids when they see the sweets at the till & start having a tantrum that they want them, blackmailing the parents into getting some. At least now if they start having a tantrum, what they'll be getting is good for them.
How about looking at the positive side for a change?
Totally agree about the choccy snacks near the checkout. I've always thought that was a cynical marketing ploy, rather like the plethora of toy adverts before the water-shed, and towards Christmas. Methinks Tesco may be trying to promote their "own brands" instead. This, of course, could backfire if people don't want to buy Tesco products.
Tesco have been pretty spectacularly down on profit recently, but I'll bet the "bigwigs" still get a nice, fat bonus for their failure, rather like those scumball bankers!
As regards sugary drinks, I'd rather have SUGAR as a sweetener, rather than some weird and wonderful artificial muck. The key to not getting fat is simple; EXERCISE!
( unless there is some underlying medical condition, or physical/mental dis-advantage).
" To finish first, first you have to finish!" Rick Mears. 4x Winner Indy 500. 3x Indycar National Champion.
Ribena ?
I think the main problem lies in the key point of ADDED sugar to a product that already has enough of its own natural sweetening. For instance, I have recently purchased a couple of jars of honey from my cleaner, whose father keeps bees on my estate. It is 100% pure honey & tastes gorgeous. However, it is nowhere as sweet as the honey bought in stores. Why not? Because more often than not these store bought products have added sweeteners, preservatives & colourings. Why? Honey is a natural preservative, and even its own colour gives its name to the colour "Honey".
Ribena ?
FourPart;1483686 wrote: I think the main problem lies in the key point of ADDED sugar to a product that already has enough of its own natural sweetening. For instance, I have recently purchased a couple of jars of honey from my cleaner, whose father keeps bees on my estate. It is 100% pure honey & tastes gorgeous. However, it is nowhere as sweet as the honey bought in stores. Why not? Because more often than not these store bought products have added sweeteners, preservatives & colourings. Why? Honey is a natural preservative, and even its own colour gives its name to the colour "Honey".
If you read all the comments, right at the bottom is one from Tesco that point out that it's only the Lunch Box sizes they're withdrawing.
You should look what you are buying when super market shopping, Honey is and can only be sold as 'Honey' where as honey flavour spreads or similar are not 100% Honey.
Realistically Tesco calls the shots on what they stock and sell and the morality involved, but why make a song and dance about it if they feel so strong about it ?
They are selling cheap apples from all over the world in their stores in The Garden of England, stores surrounded by apple orchards, never understood that.
The reason they have 'Made a stand' is for some cheap publicity after a year of bad publicity, whether they sell lunch box size Ribena is inconsequential in the scheme of things, unless you are competing in the supermarket popularity stakes
If you read all the comments, right at the bottom is one from Tesco that point out that it's only the Lunch Box sizes they're withdrawing.
You should look what you are buying when super market shopping, Honey is and can only be sold as 'Honey' where as honey flavour spreads or similar are not 100% Honey.
Realistically Tesco calls the shots on what they stock and sell and the morality involved, but why make a song and dance about it if they feel so strong about it ?
They are selling cheap apples from all over the world in their stores in The Garden of England, stores surrounded by apple orchards, never understood that.
The reason they have 'Made a stand' is for some cheap publicity after a year of bad publicity, whether they sell lunch box size Ribena is inconsequential in the scheme of things, unless you are competing in the supermarket popularity stakes
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth