Ok so I’m assuming you’ve served in either profession then and know from experience??

I’ll put this scenario to you.. youre on late turn starting at 2pm. You bring a prepared meal in from home.. it gets kept in the Police station in your team fridge and you go out on patrol in the cars.

You’re due your break at 6pm.. At 5.50pm you’re dispatched to a sudden death (person found dead)
You know from experience that a sudden death takes around 3 hours to deal with. Over the next few hours there are no spare units to go and get your food from the station and drop it to you 8 miles away...

However there is a kebab shop 30 yards from where you are at the sudden death. Do you go 8 hours without eating or pop to the kebab shop to get a burger to eat in the car????

Is that just an excuse??

In your bag in the boot of the car yes but it all depends on what you have brought in… It's easy to say just bring in cold food but in the summer that needs to be refrigerated and in the winter sometimes you want something hot...

Many times, especially since the Tory cuts you don't even get to eat as you are literally flat out for the entire shift.

Ok so I’m assuming you’ve served in either profession then and know from experience??

I’ll put this scenario to you.. youre on late turn starting at 2pm. You bring a prepared meal in from home.. it gets kept in the Police station in your team fridge and you go out on patrol in the cars.

You’re due your break at 6pm.. At 5.50pm you’re dispatched to a sudden death (person found dead)
You know from experience that a sudden death takes around 3 hours to deal with. Over the next few hours there are no spare units to go and get your food from the station and drop it to you 8 miles away...

However there is a kebab shop 30 yards from where you are at the sudden death. Do you go 8 hours without eating or pop to the kebab shop to get a burger to eat in the car????

Is that just an excuse??

Then get ill and die and a big inquiry costing £1000s.
A bit like letting fat people die.
Gone full circle !

People who have awful teeth are usually people on low incomes.

I know what you’re saying but with a bit of thought there are some meals that can be eaten the temperature they are in the boot. It’s vastly better than take aways laden with saturated fat and salt and ingredients you’re unaware of. Rank. I’d rather have a cold curry, spag bol, chilli, etc, and they’re the foods you all know are easy to sort out. There’s endless other stuff that’s far healthier with plenty of vegetables. Mediterranean vegetables roasted in olive oil and cold is great. You can eat loads of them. Options aren’t limited to the shyte on the high street. You eat sh1t you’ll look like sh1t. Police who eat donuts are donuts.

Plenty of meals that can be had it's all excuses.

saturated fat is healthy so is salt.

none of what you listed is healthy it's all high carb and problem with carbs are you want more few hours later which is why carb eaters tend to eat throughout the day if you eat high fat diet you can get away easily 1-2 meals a day thats all you need plus you dont get any cravings or sugar crashes

lol donuts thats not a uk thing for police anyway.

Blimey I spent all those years just making excuses, despite the fact I kept myself in shape and played Rugby for The Met..... According to grumpy I should of eaten properly at 11.30am before I left at 12 to get to work and gone all the way through until 11pm without anything to eat!!