Rejected petition Teach children how to cook healthy, cheap food in school

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With all the obesity and child poverty the education system needs to teach children all about food. They need to learn about where it comes from, the science of nutrition giving them knowledge of how to feed a family a healthly balanced meal on a limited budget. This will include reintroducing compulsory cooking lessons.
This will reduce obesity, allow children to enjoy larger varitey of foods and reduce the wastage of good food as they learn to make food stretch.

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Date submitted 6 September 2011
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