The military-style food packets supplied by United Nations troops brought back happy memories because of the boiled sweets they sometimes contained.

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They also issue figures for recommended daily allowances of these nutrients that duly appear next to the ingredient lists on food packets and are duly ignored.

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But because of sharp increases in food and fuel prices, fatter wage packets have barely kept up with inflation, which is now 4%.

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The Food Standards Agency issued an allergy alert saying the presence of peanuts was not declared on Booths' own brand packets of monkey nuts.

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