Just add slake lime, then cook for a long as possible

Monday, 3 September 2007

School Dinners

There are two parts to this:

On the one hand the school dinners are crap, made of cheap ingredients slung together by people fit only to cut open boxes and put the contents into a microwave oven for heating up purposes.

That's why my child won't touch the stuff.

On the other hand they've been improved from a staggeringly low base and now comprise stuff other than turkey twizzlers, 'sausages' and chips. Menus include vegetables and fruit and wow, other stuff with nutritional value. And they cost money. Lots of money. Over a whole, entire pound.

And there are lots of kids up and down the country won't touch anything green, or for that matter that doesn't come out of either the microwave or deep fryer. And there's an army of militant mothers out there who resent their children being forced to eat this good food and bitterly resent having to pay for the stuff.

£1.60 is an outrageous amount of money to spend on a child's main meal of the day.

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