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School dinners -- is this much of an improvement?

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Uwila · 04/09/2006 15:04

Good grief, if this is improvement I don't want to know what they used to be.

"The guidelines are based on recommendations by the School Meal Review Panel and follow a campaign by TV chef Jamie Oliver to improve the quality of school dinners.

Other key measures include:

Not less than two servings per day of fruit and vegetables
Oily fish should be served at least once every three weeks
Bread should be available every day
Free, fresh drinking water should be available
Salt should not be available at lunch and ketchup and mayonnaise should only be available in sachets
No more than two portions of deep-fried foods in a single week
Manufactured meat products such as chicken nuggets may only be served occasionally and only providing they meet minimum standards for meat content
The only savoury snacks available at lunchtime should be nuts and seeds with no added salt, fat or sugar.

And I'd like to know more, like what exctly counts as a fruit veg? Does it have to be fresh? Are potatoes a veg.? "Manufactured meat products"? YUCK! What kind of bread? (cheap white shit I presume) And, fried food twice a week? But, oily fish only once every 3 weeks? I'd swap the frequencies of fried food and oily fish for sure!

BBC article

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Blandmum · 06/09/2006 19:50

I had an excellent fresh friut salad today, that must have equalled 2 of my fruit and veg portions today, for 60p.

It was all fresh, with no syrup and had apples, oranges, blackcurrents, blackberries and melon....so it even managed to do three of the 'colours'. Excellent.

nikkie · 06/09/2006 19:56

They have provided a bowl of fruit and more beans!

Blandmum · 06/09/2006 20:02

We have a full salad bar that does main course salads and also fruiy salads. They also do wraps, and a choice of hot food.

To be fair to them they have always been good

nikkie · 06/09/2006 20:09

Can I come and work with you?
We get ours from another school so have been sat an hour and a half before our part of the school gets them too, they used to be good but the cook went off sick and was never properly replaced (off long term) and she just uses 'easy' stuff.

Blandmum · 06/09/2006 20:42

Their quiche are superb, pastry crispy,and the eggy bit not overcooked, served with a nice green salad

am I making you ??

nikkie · 06/09/2006 21:19

If they were halfway decent I'd eat one as I'm never organised enough in the am with my lunch!

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