School canteen constantly running out of food. They ran out of turkey yesterday at the xmas lunch!

[sandyballs]

I can understand it to a certain extent the rest of the year as the pupils are allowed to chop and change on a daily basis as to whether they have packed lunch or hot dinners so this must be hard to cater for and they do seem to run out of favourite chooses.

But for the xmas lunch yesterday all the parents were asked to fill in a slip stating that their kids wanted the xmas lunch. Lunch started at 12.00pm and by 12.30 there was no turkey left - so years 2 and upwards just had a plate of potatoes and veg and one measly sausage in bacon.

would you complain?

choices!

Yes. If you are paying for a meal you should expect your child to get a meal.

That's appalling. Your dc isn't getting what you're paying for!

My kids said they had suasages or beef.

My kids said they had suasages or beef.

My kids said they had sausages or beef for their Christmas lunch.

A lot of kids are off sick at the moment which means there should have been some left over really!

I can do better that: Filled in slip for Xmas dinner and sent money and slip in for ds and dd. School lost money and slip. didn't argue, paid again.

Usually ds and dd take packed lunch because food standard was dire, most children stopped having school dinner, standard slipped further, now pretty much only free school meals kids have dinner.

Xmas dinner came - school gave ds Xmas dinner, not dd (fortunately I'd packed a sandwich for her just in case Xmas dinner was inedible). Ds in tears at home time.

Xmas dinner was disgusting and there was no turkey or Xmas cake for ds.

Complaint at this school is fairly pointless.

When my boys started at primary they had masses of choice for school dinners - 3 or 4 main courses, 3 or 4 veg, 3 or 4 desserts. When food was reviewed (dh and ds2 were on the committee) we suggested abolishing all this choice (which is utterly bewildering for 4 yr-olds). Also they can only book for school meals on a Monday, so the kitchen can plan properly.

As a result they don't run out of 'popular choices', and always enough food for everyone.

Every day there is one main dish, with some different veg options. Or they can order in advance a salad or filled jacket potato. There is always fruit and yoghurt available, but one menu dessert. Because there's less waste the quality of the food has improved too.