Meal or No Meal game for food campaign stalls - Shropshire WDM

We had 6 numbered boxes with No Meal written in the lids except for one saying One Meal and One saying 3 Meals. Those boxes had some toffees in!
All the box lids were covered with the food derivatives poster ( 'this is how banks see your money'). We also had a home made Noel Edmonds mask

We asked people if they wanted to play and most knew deal or no deal so knew the format.
You choose the boxes you don’t want and are left with one you do plus the one that has been put aside earlier
You then choose between the final two

If they won No Meal then it clearly showed how gambling on food could end up with people hungry. And throughout the message was that food was far too important to life to be gambled with. Reregulation of food prices was needed.

If they won 1 meal or 3 meals – well they’ve been fed for up to a day but what about tomorrow and then as above.

It was an easy and fun way to engage people – children and adults - and most at least left with the idea that gambling on food wasn’t a good thing.