This is Luke, my son, aged 5. This was him on Sunday at yet another children's birthday party ; it must be our fifth in about a month, such is the social life of a child in school where the class totals 30 : )

I've been fighting the urge for ages, but enough really is enough when you watch a whole room of children diving into junk foods for the umpteenth time. I keep hoping it will get better as general "food awareness" increases, but alas I am not seeing much evidence of it!

Read on, if you are ready for a "real world" mini-rant!