What are your school meals currently consisting of?

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I looked at the menu for our school last night. I was quite surprised/shocked. I wondered if I should just quietly ignore, or ask more questions?

I know some schools will be worse in that not providing hot meals at all.

The menu was 2 options. Sandwich or hot meal. The hot meal is pizza/beefburger/pizza/sausage roll/fishfinger wrap (that's next week each days choice). The weeks following are the same. It is all fast food type meals.

I luckily still have the option for packed lunch (and again I know some schools have said children can not take packed lunches in!) but I much prefer them to have a school dinner for both financial (free school meals for ks1) and practical reasons. I would like the hot meal to be a healthier option.

I know that the meals were better before covid - and could understand the lack of choice, if the choices were healthier hot meals. There is also a lack of options for dietary requirements. For example the only vegetarian option when pizza isn't on, is a cheese sandwich.

Any thoughts? Do I just wait it out and blame covid?

The kids at the school I work at have to have hot food that can be in Styrofoam boxes or a sandwich

Maybe some of the airline catering companies should switch over to providing school meals seeing as they are short of work at the moment and it can all be pre packaged. Airline food is not great but must be healthier than some of the options here.