Last year there was plenty in the news about Jamie Oliver and his 'Feed me better' campaign.
This year, there's almost nothing about school food in the news. From what I remember, he got plenty of politicians to make distinctly qualified promises to improve school food and, sadly, was pretty much fobbed out and 'politicked' into beliveing that he'd acheived something.
Today, after reading an article online about the same problem in America, it made me wonder what food is on offer in schools throughout the UK:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/...
This would be a great place for anyone who finds it to let us know what food is on offer in your kids school and whether you think it's good enough. So, if you've just found your way here from the front page, Google or an email from a friend, please sign up - it's free and we don't give out your details to *anyone* else.
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Has there really been no progress? I thought that at least some schools have tried to introduce healthier options and reduce the high-fat/salt foods in their canteens.
Not just schools though - I think that hospitals would benefit a lot from better canteens, too.
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True story - my wife gave birth to our son on a Sunday lunchtime. We moved out of the delivery room and onto the maternity ward. Later on, a nurse came round to see what the new mums wanted to eat for tea. Being vegetarian, my wife asked for the veggie option. Unbeliveably, there wasn't a single veggie choice to be had.
In the end I had to run home and chop some cucumber and that was about all she had to eat.
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Really? That's actually ridiculous! You would've thought that vegetarianism was a really rare thing by that, but it's not - haven't they run into this problem before quite a few times?? Madness.
And congratulations, by the way!
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Oh yes, it's true, and it was just after receiving a lecture about how important it was for breast feeding mums to eat healthily and to eat enough to produce enough milk..... I've never enjoyed cucumber, tomatoes and peanuts so much (it was all we had and being a sunday shops were closed)
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I don't have kids in school yet, but I wonder about the quality of food that they is served as well. I remember the whole ketchup is a veggie controversy a few years back.
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It has begun to improve. I know that a number of schools have got rid of national caterers and taken the responsibility back in house. ~There are a number of training centres throughout the country often run by organic farms, for staff to learn about cooking healthily and economically. As the series said, many school dinner staff did not know how to cook, only how to reheat etc. Not that unlike many families!
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