Heart Attack in a Lunchbox - Is This Your Child's School Snack? Warning As Pupils Ditch Proper Meals for Artery-Clogging 'Munchy Boxes'

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MOVE over deep-fried Mars Bar, here comes the Munchy Box. A pizza box stuffed with as much as 2,200 calories-worth of assorted fast food has emerged as the latest lunchtime treat for Scotland's schoolchildren.

The boxes sell for GBP 4 to GBP 5, can contain as much as 150 grams of artery-clogging fat, and typically include doner meat, chips, cheese, pakora and - if you're lucky - a token smattering of salad.

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Heart Attack in a Lunchbox - Is This Your Child's School Snack? Warning As Pupils Ditch Proper Meals for Artery-Clogging 'Munchy Boxes'

Officials in Glasgow are so concerned by lunchtime sales of the boxes to children that they are buying samples to test for nutritional content and will use the results to attempt to badger fast food sellers into changing recipes and portion sizes.

"It is my under...

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