How much do you pay for school dinners?

[TigerFeet]

Went to see a primary school today and was shocked at the cost of the cooked dinners - £1.90 a day. Is that normal? I undertand that there is a lot more to it than the cost of the food but it does seem a lot.

Is that around about what everyone else pays?

[MrsSlowLearner]

At dd's school they charge £1.70

[scorpio1]

£1.96

[GreatAuntieWurly]

£1.75 per day

[andyrobo237]

Ours are £1.50 per day - I guess it will vary depending upon where you are - we are in the NW

[LyraSilvertongue]

£2 a day. it's expensive but i don't mind. I'm just pleased DS is getting a cooked meal in the middle of the cold winter school day instead of sandwiches. Also it's less work for me in the mornings

[oliveoil]

£1.60

organic, cooked on the premises

dd1 starts on them next week

[mmjeozz]

£1.70 a day

[bluenosesaint]

1.80 per day - also in the NW

[TigerFeet]

I was expecting around £1.50 tbh - 40p isn't a lot I know but added up over the course of a year its rather more than I was expecting!

Interesting range of prices - looks like this school is the top end of normal.

[Twiglett]

£1.55 per day in London

[paolosgirl]

£1.50 here. Organic? Is that a state primary?

[mmjeozz]

Im also NW

[hippipotami]

Ours are £1.70 per day.

[oliveoil]

yes, state primary

well, they told me it was organic, it could be grown in a lab for all I know

[colditz]

£1.75 here. They are ok. We are in the Midlands.

[TigerFeet]

We are in Sth Lincs - not one of the country's more affluent areas. Regardless of the price she will probably have a cooked meal at school for all the reasons that Lyra says

[scorpio1]

We are in Cornwall - healthy school, cooked on site.

[paolosgirl]

Oooh, am oliveoil!

[colditz]

he he he

I was in my local green grocers once, when some Anxious First Time Parents came in, and asked "Are these cherries organic?"

He replied "If by organic you mean 'carbon-based' then yes. Otherwise, I'm afraid not."

I lurve him.

[paddingtonbear1]

£2 a day for us, state primary.It's a bit more expensive than I was expecting but dd likes them and it saves me time,and her the same old boring sarnies!

[TigerFeet]

colditz

[aintnomountainhighenough]

Gosh ours are 2.25 a day! Perhaps I should move.....!

[pooka]

£1.70 for us. State primary school.

[aintnomountainhighenough]

and today my DD had pasta with cheese (no not cheese sauce, she couldn't hear what the sauce was so gave it a miss), a piece of garlic bread and a slice of cucumber. Swifly followed by green jelly 'some frothy stuff' and sprinkles ('just like ours Mummy'- yes the ones we use once in a blue moon for fun....). Do you think green jelly could be organic....

[colditz]

Ds once informed me he had had rice and ice cream

I don't think he had remembered everything.