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A real packed lunch | April 18, 2011

It’s my last week of £1-a-week lunches, and now, with going away tomorrow, I’ve got to do like thousands of children across the country, and have a real packed lunch. None of this making spaghetti on toast, or cooking a potato in the mircowave.

Which means my lunch for this week looks like this:

With no margarine. The bread’s pretty dry (so not looking forward to it on Friday…) and the cheese, well, isn’t really cheese. And it cost me 95p – I’m only getting pudding (digestives) because I had some money left last week, so splashed out in anticipation of not being able to afford anything else this week.

It’s a pretty sorry way to end another Lent – but at least for me it’s ending. As teaching unions ATL’s recent research shows, poverty is widespread in our schools, and can have a devastating impact on children’s ability to thrive and break out of the cycle of poverty. It’s a sad indictment of our society. Happy Easter!