Children working in the factories were given very little time to eat, usually half an hour for breakfast and lunch, so food needed to be quick to eat and nutritious.
'The hours of labour at that mill were from five in a morning till eight at night, with an interval for refreshments of thirty minutes at noon.'
(Evidence given to the Factory Inquiry Commission 1833)
'I have been in the mills at all hours and I have never in my life seen the machinery stopped at meal times in any of the mills…'
(Evidence given to the Factory Inquiry Commission 1833)