How many lunch options does your child's primary school offer for lunch?

Two week rolling menu, choice of meat, vegetarian, three jacket potato options and a choice of a school made packed lunch. However, as I am in London, the quality of food has been noted to have gone down since Khan made primary school lunch free.

Also overseas here. Kids get served one meal, no choices. Vegetarians and allergies catered for separately. No packed lunches although kids can go home for lunch (almost none do).

My kids are always telling me they ate such-and-such healthy thing at school that they would never touch at home

In general it seems to work fine but maybe that's because it's the norm here and what all the parents grew up with as well.

This is same for us

Two different main options (usually one meat or fish and one veggie, but sometimes both veggie), or a jacket potato as a further option every day, with a choice of fillings.

3 week rolling menu here, also a spring/summer & autumn/winter menu change. The options are:
Main meal
Veggie option
Halal
Jacket potatoes
There's always a meat free Monday & fish finger Friday. My very fussy kids do actually eat from all of the menus - they love the quorn nuggets & halal chicken for roast.

uk Primary school (south west) has meat option, veggie option, jacket potato option (rotating between just cheese, baked beans or tuna) pasta option ( alternating between cheesy pasta and tomato pasta)
all meals are actually made on site (unusually!) and apparently are very nice, even a lot of the teachers have them.

3 week rolling menu here with one main and one veggie alternative. Baguettes are available in the warmer months and jackets in the winter but there's a single filling choice per day on those.

We have to order a week on advance to avoid food waste.

I live overseas. Kids eat a sandwich that they bring from home at 10am and fruit at noon, then a cooked lunch at 2pm. Cooked lunch is a 2 week rolling menu with no choices (kids can register as vegetarian or to have a low-allergen meal). There's always a main, a carb, a hot vegetable and a cold vegetable. Today it was bolognese, 50% wholewheat pasta, green beans and raw veg (presumably carrot/cucumber).

DD's junior school offers main (normally cottage pie, roast dinner, chilli, chicken curry pizza, full English, fish etc), veg option (normally veg version of main or mac cheese, veg sliders etc), jacket with different topping, sandwich option. 2 different veg choices to go with whatever your having and then dessert. Kids can also bring a packed lunch

This plus a sandwich option

Halal meat
non Halal meat
Vegetarian
Potato
Packed lunch

Excuse the crosses and circles, that's DDs way of letting us know which days she wants a packed lunch.

DS’s school have really cut back on the lunch options since last year to save money. Kitchen staff have been let go and the school operates a ‘heat from frozen’ offer prepared by staff like teachers, TAs and office staff on a rota.

Tbh it doesn’t sound particularly appetising- there’s one hot option like a curry or pasta (heated from frozen), one powdered soup choice and pre-packed sandwiches.

I am aware though that schools are in a difficult financial position and teaching and learning has to be prioritised over catering.

Veggie, meat, sandwich or jacket potato. So 4 options and they're on a 3 week rotation with some variation of fish n chips every Friday.

4 week rolling menu. One meat and one veggie option per day plus a sandwich option. It states jacket potatoes are also available but DD has never mentioned or seen these y3

just 2 options which isn’t great veggie and non veggie no jacket potato or sandwich options

The school I work at has one meal each day and no choices. Vegetarian adaptations are made for those whose parents have requested and any allergies catered for on an individual basis. It's a small school and kitchen staff quickly get to know the children. Years ago a jacket potato option was available but this was withdrawn because it created a lot of food waste.

3 week rolling menu which changes termly.

Meat and veggie hot meal option, or jacket potatoes with a choice of about 5 different fillings.

They are allowed to bring packed lunches if preferred, and in the juniors (year 3-6) you can also buy a school packed lunch.

@belowwdeckk no issue with the nutrition but it made them incredibly constipated!

DD5 at the infants school has a 3 week rotating menu. It is a main meal with a vegetarian option and then alternating jacket potato or pasta with tomato sauce as a 3rd option. Meals are the basic spaghetti, roast chicken, pizza, fish fingers, sausage, cottage pie, lasagne, veg curry etc. Served with vegetables and baked beans mainly and a dessert. Bread is also always available, as well as a fruit and veg salad.

Then DD9 at the juniour's school has a meat option, a veg option, a gluten free option or a jacket potato. As well as a side dish, vegetables and dessert. 2 week rotating menu. Meals are pretty similar - pizza wheel, mac n cheese, fish fingers etc.

Two options. They offer vegetarian twice a week. If you are not into the food you bring a packed lunch.

Two a day, one veggie and one none veggie, today it was taco’s.

3 choices

• main dish
• vegetarian main dish (sometimes quien version of main meal other times different)
• jacket potatoes or wrap (fillings are grated cheese, cheese spread or tuna mayo)

3 week rotating menu and food is cooked in house from locally sourced ingredients where possible.