This Great British Bake Off Judge Thinks Parents Should Stop Packing School Lunch — Food News

Prue Leith is one of the most outspoken judges on the Great British Bake Off and, as it turns out, she apparently has strong feelings about packed school lunch. In a recent interview with Radio Times, Leith proposed that we "ban lunch boxes," and the suggestion really got people in a tizzy.

Her reasoning? "However well-educated a parent is, very few really give their children healthy lunch boxes because of the pressure from the kids," she tells Radio Times. Pointing to peer pressure as the main example of why lunch boxes are a major issue, Leith argued that "The kids say, 'I get that, and Lucy gets that, and Emily gets that, why can't I?'"

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