How much are your primary school dinners?

[nickiredcar]

My sister is thinking 2.20 is expensive as she can do it for less once the free ones run out. I'm sure she could but for a healthy varied meal and no prep that sounds pretty good to me. Wish they were as good as they are now when mine was in primary!

We pay 2.25. And it is very good value. Most kitchens cook from scratch and have 2 main options plus sandwich or jacket potato and fruit and another desert option. There really is very little profit margin made on dinners.

£2.10 all cooked from scratch on site and the kids love it.

No such thing here

They are £2.30 at my school. Same price as before but the new headcook seems to give so much more bang for our buck.

£2.20 here.

£2.30

£2.30 and it's pretty good. However, your sister is right in that she can do a packed lunch for less. It's a question of weighing up price versus convenience.

My DD in year 3 has packed lunch 3 times a week and school lunch the two days I work. Full time meals would be an extra £46 a month which would really push the budget.

2.40 now I think (kids left). Excellent outside caterers though with lots of choice and plenty of it.

2.25 here (state primary in London)

£2.

DS3 is Yr1 and takes a packed lunch as he struggles with the queuing and finding a table (he has ASD).

£2.05 per day. Get a choice of 2 hot mains or sandwich with half a jacket potatoe, good selection of desserts such as cake, yoghurt, fruit, biscuit. They on occasion get ice cream with cooks homemade toffee sauce which is amazing.

£1.85 a day and it's lovely fresh cooked food!

Oh and the High school is £1.95 a day. That's a drink, a meal like hot pasta or a nice panini and a piece of cake etc.

£2.50 per day here, 1 DD on school lunches and 1 DD on packed lunches( fussy eater) .
Does seem expensive when you think of monthly rate but i think it's good value for 2 courses every day ( even though the menu is a little odd sometimes) and she loves them .

£2.20

Ds packed lunches probably do cost less than that.

£1.60 plus 20p if they want milk instead of water.

£2.60 here (N. Ireland). DS5 prefers packed lunches and I quite like knowing what he’s eating. Definitely more effort though.

Free for everyone all the way through Primary in our London borough. Which makes it all the more annoying that DS won’t eat most of what they serve and I have to make him a marmite sandwich every morning!

£2 here (up North). For me that's well worth paying to avoid having to do lunches, remember when things are running out and so on - but you'd definitely be able to do a packed lunch cheaper. Depends what the priority is.

£2.20 here. Yes I could do it for cheaper but there is a huge convenience issue, for me it's worth it. The quality can be a bit hit and miss but then again what mine will eat from a packed lunch is also hit and miss.

@Avrannakern wow that's cheap! And I thought mine was good at £1.85.

@BorisAndDoris

I was surprised too! They get a starter (cheese and crackers or veg sticks with hummus or soup) and a main (pasta dish or curry or stir fry or baguettes etc) and they get yoghurt or piece of fruit. And there's an unlimited salad bar they can choose from. So it's pretty good.

£1.80 my three infant children have them as free. My year three takes a packed lunch as does her sister in high school as it’s half the price.

£2.20 per day here.