These kids arent skipping breakfast at home to keep trim

No, these 700 kids are having it at school to fill their tummies and fatten up with cereal, milk wheatmeal bread, a variety of spreads, cocoa jam, toast and milo to fuel their brains. Perhaps Parekura Horomia needs to fuel his brain with kai pai instead of pumping out his puku with meat pies.

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Minister says kids skip breakfast because they want to stay trim

Being trim may be a challenge for Minister of Eating Pies, Parekura Horomia, but in parliament today he was asked why 20,000 children a week needed feeding at school because they don't have breadfast. Horomia said this

Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA: There are a host of reasons why students and pupils do not have breakfast. They are trying to stay trim, or else there may be poverty in the house.

One wonders why a kid would not have breakfast at home because he or she wants to stay trim, only to have it at school instead.

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