I have been reading her blog since the beginning. It was really horrifying at first but it seems that once the council got named and shamed the quality of food dramatically improved, which is good.
Parents should have been looking at this for ages, don't they get given the weekly canteen menu?

My parents never did when I had school dinners...

+1

School dinners at (my infant and middle) school were very good anyway.
At secondary school you could choose between the "burger bar" and "main meals".
Six year there and I never used the burger bar once. The main meals were okay.

As for my son (he starts school this year). The schools cooks everything from scratch on site, as does the nursery he's currently at.

My wife works in the kitchen of the school our kids attend, so we have a pretty good idea of the quality.

Update:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-18454800

You would think though before trying to ban her someone in the council would have sat down and said "What reaction do we think we will get from trying to ban a 9yr old with a following of 2 million people inc some famous people - with their multi million following - from taking some photos of some food?"

+1

+2. I don't think my parents did either. I do recall being packed lunch for twelve months or so at school but can't recall why (eg cost, diet etc).


+2. The problem is endemic within Govt depts - no one thinks of the future and everything is a knee-jerk reaction

Looking at that meal, it's horrendous. Our primary school meal consisted of a main dish w/ veg or salad and a dessert. There was vegetarian or meat for the main and no choice for dessert. Water was freely provided. You ate or you went hungry.

Secondary school was different in that you had the tuck shop which existed to sell sweets, chocolates, crisps and fizzy drinks. This is where most of us spent our lunch money. That got closed about three years after I joined. The hot dinners varied and my group of friends didn't often bother with hot meals so I didn't either. Occasionally it was a sandwich + drink. I recall there being one meat dish, one veggie dish, one fast-food dish (eg pizza) plus veg, salad, or chips.

I like the way the food is served up on a prison tray.

The school I went to ages 10 - 18 had 3 options for school dinners. There was a "fixed menu" main dinner which pretty much only those on government subsidies took. That was served upstairs and smelled disgusting. Then downstairs, you had a wide choice of various lighter meals and salads which you could pick and mix. Or there was "the chip trolley" for people who wanted nothing but chips. I took sandwiches so I can't really comment on the quality.

The food at our primary school was awful.They even made chocolate sauce and ice cream inedible; for about 10 years the sight of vanilla or chocolate ice cream made me ill. I'm not sure how many I had to eat before I finally convinced my mum to make me a sandwich instead.

The food at my nursery was very similar to primary school. I remember age 3 vomiting from being forced to eat a plate of greasy gravy with gristle, peas and carrots swimming in it. The sight of a cooked carrot continued to made me sick for the next 15 years.

By the age of 19 I was a vegetarian and living by myself. I soon realised that most most veg was delicious when cooked correctly and not soaked in lard...

We had those trays at primary school too. It was only when I spent a few days in another primary school and had lunch on plates that I realised that not everyone had the trays.


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The tray in that link is more fancy than the ones we had at primary school. Ours were oval shaped, no handles, central portion for cutlery diving the tray into two equal compartments.

Take a look at this guys....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18472795

This is a remarkable achievement for a girl her age. I don't know about you lot but I think she's a worthy nominee for the reintroduced BEM in the next Queens Honours list.