... AND HE ORDERS SAME LUNCH EVERY DAY!
THE diary secretary at the centre of the scandal claimed her boss was ‘ so weird’ because he ordered exactly the same lunch from sandwich chain Pret A Manger every day.
The meal – known by aides as the ‘Dom Raab Special’ – was last night panned by health experts for its high salt and sugar content.
The 20-year-old aide said the MP for Esher and Walton always ate a Chicken Caesar and Bacon baguette, a Superfruit Salad pot and a Vitamin Volcano smoothie.
She said: ‘He has the same sandwich every day. He has the same lunch.
‘It’s from Pret. He is so weird. I get it for him. I go to Pret A Manger. That’s how I know. It’s the Dom Raab Special.’
The lunch costs £9.03 altogether – the baguette is £3.99, the smoothie is £2.25 and the salad pot is £2.79.
But food nutritionist Fiona Parker warned that what might seem like a fresh, healthy meal could cause high blood pressure and dental erosion over time. She said: ‘ There’s not a huge amount of salt in his current sandwich but it is recommended that your lunch should provide about 30 per cent of your daily amount of salt. The Chicken Caesar and Bacon has more than that. He already has a stressful job, so this raises the risk of high blood pressure and hyper tension.’
The baguette has more than double the number of calories – 585 – as a Big Mac burger from McDonalds.
In total Mr Raab consumes 821 calories for the lunch package alone – more than a third of the daily recommended intake.
The Vitamin Volcano smoothie, meanwhile, contains 27 grams of sugar – more sugar than in Pret’s carrot cake slice.
And while Mr Raab is getting three of his five-a-day, there is a distinct lack of vegetables in his lunch routine.
Parker added: ‘Eating the same lunch every day is not a great idea – variety may be the spice of life but it is also the key to a balanced diet.’
Pret A Manger, which markets itself as the home of healthy fast food, was last week dealt a humiliating blow when the Advertising Standards Agency ruled it could no longer label its goods ‘natural’ due to the number of additives it uses.