School Dinners for 200 Children; £12

Threefers and Bogofs are very good things. They are also pretty magnetic - suddenly you are convinced that instead of one packet of cereal, you really should get 3. Bogoffs are even better - pick up an extra one of whatever you were going to get, and stock up.

I've never seen an offer as good as this one - 200 kids' meals for £12. And I think it'd be churlish not to take full advantage of it!

They're not going to be anything fancy or cordon bleu, but they'll be nutritious and filling - a good thing as they're sometimes the only meal that some kids will have in a day. It gives the parents an incentive to send their children to school - even the girls, who complete, on average, fewer years of education than boys do. That means less of them are literate, and that if they end up as lone mothers things are even harder for them than they would be if they could fill in forms, read signs, books, newspapers and other information, and help their children with their homework.

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