WAR ON XMAS DINNER
Health killjoys order curb on festive fare
MOANING health bosses want us to ditch traditional slap-up Christmas dinners.
Instead of the generous festive celebration feast of mouth-watering food and wine, they want
us to eat a paltry plate of food with a thimbleful of wine.
Public Health England guidelines mean a festive “feast” would include just one pig in blanket, six thin slices of unseasoned turkey, five small roast potatoes and four tablespoons of gravy.
Veg would be two sprouts, a few parsnips and carrots and a tiny serving of red cabbage and
29ml of red wine. This year PHE has spent over
£41.7million of taxpayers money telling Brits what they should and should not eat, drink and do in their leisure time.
But the Taxpayers’ Alliance has blasted the killjoys for “wasting” so much cash.
Chief exec John O’Connell said: “If they had it their way, we would be eating nothing but salad and Brussels sprouts this Christmas, with a meagre sliver of a mince pie for pudding.
“I wonder if public health officials this year will be practising what they preach by following their own overbearing guidelines?” In the battle against sugar, dessert is limited to three grams of Christmas pudding doused in five grams of custard and less than a tablespoon of brandy cream.
Revellers would also have to savour a single bite of a mince pie and half a shot of port.
Drink is limited to a 10th of a glass of orange juice, a quarter of a glass of Champagne and one sixth of a medium glass of red wine. One 10th of a gin and tonic and quarter measures of port and brandy also keep it within the daily calories limits. And after the main meal has been scoffed down in seconds, the Government-approved guidelines allow for a tiny bit of cheese and crackers, some pâté and 30 grams of crisps.
For anyone left hungry, health chiefs also allow diners to enjoy one quarter of a turkey sandwich. A spokesman for Public Health England refused to comment on the Taxpayers’ Alliance study.