How can you be sure that school dinners are of a decent standard?
We are all familiar with the Jamie Oliver effect, I guess! One thing that happened after the outcry surrounding his TV programmes was that the national food standards agency imposed new strict standards on school kitchens, limiting the amount of saturated fats offered to children as well as eradicating processed foods. So, in terms of choices available to kids nowadays, it has never been better.
What will vary is the quality of the individual catering consortia and, more pertinently, the individual cooks. All of the standards in the world will not improve things for children if the cook can’t actually ‘do what it says on the tin’! (i.e. – cook)
Of course another by-product of the Jamie Oliver factor has been the tendency for a lot of kids to go over to packed lunches which are, of course, entirely unregulated!
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