School dinners....please tell me 5 meals that are on your school dinner menu.

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I am having a battle with the catering company that does school meals at school.

The food is appalling and I think it is because the menu is too complicated.

I would like to see foods that the children will recognise back on the menu rather than chickpeas and aubergines which generally children do not choose. This is why there is a huge percentage of children choosing jacket potato and beans.

I would like to see

Spag Bol
Breaded Chicken
Cauliflower Cheese
Sausage and Mash
Lasagne
Meatballs
Roast dinners

I want to know if it is the policy of the Government to have foods that are more complicated on the menu or if it is just Jamie Oliver arse who has pressured catering companies into doing this.

TIA

please?

We have :
Chicken Curry(not popular)
Roast (popular)
Fish(fingers) and chips (v popular)
Meatballs gravy and pasta yuck but popular.
Lasagne (not popular but nice)
Spagettie bologase(popular)
Pizza and wedges (popular)
ham and cheesy mash (not popular)
Mini Grill, sausage,bacon,hash browns, and tomatoes (yuck but popular)
Hot Dogs (popular)
Can't think of more

DD (4) generally tells me she had "pasta with yucky sauce" or "the food for the vegetarununs"
One day she insisted that there was only broccoli and nothing else at all in the whole lunch hall

On her more reliable days however she has reported

• Curry with rice, naan bread and a poppadom
• Pizza on 'special' days
• Fish and chips on friday
• Chicken and rice with sweetcorn

HTH

We have Pasta and sauce, Jackets & cheese or curry, wraps, HM Nuggets & wedges, Pizza (wholemeal base), salad, veg, salmon (once a fortnight) - Primary school.

DS has roast dinners, meatballs and pasta, SpagBol, breaded fish, sausages, pies, things like that. All served with a selection of veg and salad. Sometimes they have pizza available.

just realised you only wanted 5 op

We have all of the above, with the exception of the breaded chicken.

My DD loves her school lunches, and you can see our primary menu here

She has become more adventurous since she started. As a Big Year 1 she now adores the curry and spicy meatballs, as she was getting bored of the pizza option. Always happy to try anything - provided there are no parents around to have expectations of her.

I don't think that Jamie Oliver has anything to do with this. He is no advocate of poncey food for poncey food's sake. He, rightly, is simply against children being offered the same fried orange rubbish every day.

ooh just found our menu

In winter always a jacket option, summer a salad option, a veggie option and a meat option. Then two/three vegetables with, and I think bread and pasta are always available.

Fridays is always fishfingers/fishcakes with baked beans and chips in the side dishes - that's the only day there are chips.

Off the top of my head for the meat options:
Cheese and Ham Pasta
Honey Baked Chicken (or sthg like that) with Noodles
Beef Cobbler
Roast Gammon
Pizza
Shephards Pie - all pretty recognisable standard fare pretty much

Not noticed any chickpeas or aubergines!

The only one that caught me out was Glamorgan Sausages that I failed to realise was the veggie option (I'd never heard of them) - dd did not like them!

ours has (if memory serves)

curry or stew (= curry - curry powder!)
fish fingers and chips
"pizza, pasta and sweetcorn"
chicken pie
roast dinner
spag bog

(and cauli cheese, much to DS's delight, as a veggie alternative to fish & chips)

www.myschoollunch.co.uk/ loads of school menus here, by county. SHould give you plenty of info

this is ours, complete with pictures. I think that's a great idea, dd [6] can pick and choose her days, opt out of 'dodgy sausage day' and 'yukky meat and gravy' day, whilst opting in to curry day,a nd anything to do with chips

thanks everyone

We just moved to this menu
as the school kitchen closed
So far they are very good

Lord have mercy. I was looking at your menus and thinkig that the one from DD's school was probably shit by comparison. And I was so very right!

Rural Texan school menu here

Not much wonder that DD prefers to take a sandwich and carrot sticks, is it?

Treedelivery, I read your menu to DD (9) and she is threatening to run away to the UK during the night

She is quite jealous.

this is our menu. DD normally has a school dinner about 3 times a week depending on what is on offer.

Sweet and Sour quorn
Thai Green Curry
Nachos and cheesy beans
Cheesy pasta
Fishcakes

for example.

Always two options, meat and vegetarian (or fish/veg on Fridays). Three week rotating menu, with pictures, so we go through every Monday morning and choose for the week. Things like shepherd's pie, roast chicken, lasagne, pizza, sausages and mash, cauliflower cheese.

the school the kids are in runs a 3 week meny Wednesdays is always a roast of some sort Friday fish of some sort (on Friday its Salmon fish bake next Friday it is fish and chips) they regularly have curry of some sort and Spag Bol happens at times too pasta at least one of the weeks. and a Vegatarian option.

Ours is on the web - if you go to Emmanuel school west hampstead, then children section and meals you can see what they had everyday last term.

Hope that helps

Ours have a two week rolling menus

Week 1 is :

Chicken Bites or
Cheese omelette or

Mince in Yorkshire Pudding or
Fish finger

Cottage Pie or
Tomato Pasta

Chicken Tikka or
Quorn Korma

Burger & Chips or
Macaroni Cheese

Either jacket potato or baguette/wraps are also available

Week 2 is:

Sausage, hash borwn & beans or
Veggie version

Chicken casserole or
Fish cake

Roast dinner or
Veggie Sausage & mash

Spaghetti Bolognese or
Veggie version

Fish goujons or
Pizza

all served wothpotatoes & veg of course

Roast dinners, spag bol, curry and fish fingers are popular. My children are not so fond of the casserole, mince or burger.

MargueriteArgeneau
Now I know that English & American isnt quite the same language but I have no idea what sort of that food is??
Although I suspect my 5 yo would like tator tots!! They sound like chips or potato smileys?

What are Kolache?

Sorry sort =SOME
as in what some of that food is

I live in London and haven't a clue what Kolache is either but I googled it and it is a pastry apparently - school food here is a)deep fried option with chips or b) vegetarian spicy option with a forrin name involving lentils or chickpeas.