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Archive => Archived Boards => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: wolfman on January 16, 2009, 01:07:50 PM
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http://www.myschoollunch.co.uk/stockport/parents/menus/default.asp
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I am a school cook... the menu's are followed to the letter what u see is what u get... nothing added and nothing taken away. Healthy home made food :)
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:o
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Looking at the menu's there seems to be a lot of sodium in them, isn't that bad for hardening
and blocking the arteries. I'm no expert and I know we need some but it seems very high or is it just in adults?
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Apologies to Moonforest! :-[
I accidentally deleted your posting about veggie options. That'll teach me to be more careful when trying to administer the board via mobile phone ::)
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The majority of secondary schools will not meet a Government deadline making it mandatory for them to provide meals of a certain nutritional standard, caterers have warned.
The Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA) said a survey of its members showed that just under a fifth of secondaries (16.2%) will fail to meet the September 1 deadline, while around half (48.6%) will only partly meet it.
The standards are simply too strict, the association warned.
Ministers first announced proposals to bring in statutory nutritional standards for school meals three years ago, and they became law for primary schools last September.
But while the implementation in primary schools has been relatively smooth, with figures published at the beginning of last year showing that half of primaries had introduced the standards nine months early, experts fear the introduction in secondaries will be problematic.
Official data published last summer showed that take-up of school meals in secondaries fell 0.5% in 2008.
LACA said it believes that the introduction of food standards has affected take-up, mainly because junk food such as crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks have been banned from school canteens.
Almost 80% of caterers said the new standards will result in a decline in uptake while 72.2% believe it will result in high food costs and higher meal prices, LACA said. It will also curtail student choice.
LACA added that to meet the standards, a school has to buy specialist equipment to calculate the content required for meals, which is both costly and time-consuming.
Press Association Author not stated