Should sausage sizzles be healthier?
The traditional sausage sizzle fundraiser is being given a healthy makeover as part of a scheme to improve Kiwis’ health. Healthy Families is trying to convince charities to sell healthier foods, rather than the traditional fried sausages on white bread with tomato sauce. This week we asked if you thought we need to make sausage sizzles healthier.
LIZ MERTON, NAENAE
It might be nice to look at starting a different tradition! But let the old one stay too. Actually I have recently had cancer and choose not to eat processed meat but it is an individual choice. Perhaps when sausage sizzles stop making enough money for the causes they are being run for then other options will happen...
STEVIE COZENS, PETONE
Just because it’s a tradition doesn’t mean it’s healthy, why would you want your kids eating something that causes cancer? Would you give your kids a cigarette once a week?
REBECCA SCHUMANN GREENHOUGH, PETONE
Obviously no one is going to FORCE anyone to make healthy changes, so let’s try not to get our dander up too much. I would love to see a vegetarian sausage at one of these sausage sizzles for a change. I don’t care too much about the health aspect of it, I just don’t eat any meat at all. I pass all these fundraisers all the time, hungry as, but can’t partake. I’ll pay extra for a veg snag, please!
JANET TUFUGA, WAIWHETU
I say if you don’t like, then don’t eat. Why change something to what it’s not.
DARREN HOLMES, NORMANDALE
I think it should stay as is! It’s just a quick snack, you don’t go to Bunnings or Mitre 10 for a sit down three course meal, you do that at a more appropriate venue where you can choose your own level of healthy snack or meal, it’s just a fundraiser quick snack, probably still healthier than most snacks found in people’s pantries.
KATT CLARKSONS, WAINUIOMATA
If a person is health conscious then they can just avoid it. Donate the gold coin if it’s for charity and regard it as a good deed. I’ve done that on days where I haven’t wanted to have the sausage but wanted to support the cause. On other days I have enjoyed it as an occasional (and rare) treat. It’s not a fast food, it’s a sausage in bread ... make it healthier and the price will not be affordable and it will stop it being a fundraiser option.
RACHAEL CARPENTER, NAENAE
Are sausages sizzles really contributing to NZs obesity problem? Let’s get real, the odd sausage in white bread with a squirt of tomato sauce isn’t going to make us fat, it’s the convenience of the never ending takeaway chains and fish n chip shops that are contributing to obesity. If we are serious about stopping the obesity issue then let’s stop the all to convenient takeaways from opening up in our city.
KATHRYN VINTEN, PETONE
What an inane suggestion. The occasional sausage doesn’t hurt anyone. If it’s enough to tip the scales on anyone’s nutritional intake then they need to take a look at themselves and adjust their diet.
HANA STEPHEN, TAITA
Who’s going to donate expensive vegan sausages? It’s school sports teams and such trying to make a couple of dollars, and often relying on the kindness of local suppliers to provide the precooked sausages for free. The product still costs that business. The play centres, sports teams, and such are doing sausage sizzle because they don’t have any money!! I strongly agree with whoever said if you want to support but don’t want a sausage just make a donation. Sausage sizzles are about the cause not the product.
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