Reply to: School dinners

[MarillionFan]

I have long held the belief that school meals should be free and should be food that is not simply reheated dollops of factory mush served up on prison plates. The evidence is there in the Scandinavian countries as to the benifits of such a policy, heart disease dropped in adults after policy adoption when the children came back from school and asked for a few greens to go with their Rudolph steak. Finland moved from a country with a comparable record to Scotland on health issues to one comparable with the mediterranean area in a generation.

The only party that even considers this is the scottish socialists who are a bunch of fruit loops but I just cannot see the reluctance to enter into this policy.

Vote for Alex then. Don't worry we'll pick up the tab.

[minestrone]

I have long held the belief that school meals should be free and should be food that is not simply reheated dollops of factory mush served up on prison plates. The evidence is there in the Scandinavian countries as to the benifits of such a policy, heart disease dropped in adults after policy adoption when the children came back from school and asked for a few greens to go with their Rudolph steak. Finland moved from a country with a comparable record to Scotland on health issues to one comparable with the mediterranean area in a generation.

The only party that even considers this is the scottish socialists who are a bunch of fruit loops but I just cannot see the reluctance to enter into this policy.

[scooby]

Guaranteed she Jamie Oliver does a program with her and her school is visited.

I've just said this! He did tweet her this morning. I suspect he is out of the country playing with the fat yanks, otherwise he'd have been all over the TV today as it just gives to weight to his fight. That, and he is a father too, and I suspect he would be outraged by this.

[MarillionFan]

Looks like the publicity has given her fundraising a bit of a boost.

Martha Payne is fundraising for Mary

Guaranteed she Jamie Oliver does a program with her and her school is visited.

[mudskipper]

Looks like the publicity has given her fundraising a bit of a boost.

Martha Payne is fundraising for Mary

[NickFitz]

Spot the difference: the council's statement at 10:53 this morning (as rescued from the memory hole) v the council's statement at 14:19 this afternoon with the addendum "This statement supersedes all other council statements on the matter already issued."

[SimonMac]

Shame. These council members should have had some training on CUK General. CUKKERS never back down even when in the wrong.

I'm sorry but you will never ever find me apologizing for anything!

[Old Hack]

Shame. These council members should have had some training on CUK General. CUKKERS never back down even when in the wrong.

Death before dishonour


Sooky council types pffft

[MarillionFan]

Quite powerful this social media you know:

School dinner ban overturned

Shame. These council members should have had some training on CUK General. CUKKERS never back down even when in the wrong.

[Old Hack]

Quite powerful this social media you know:

School dinner ban overturned

[Sysman]

Are the council outsourcing this to a catering company? If so they have to make a profit... one counter-argument to DA wishing private companies were used for a lot more stuff... whereas a public sector service can run profit-neutral (in theory).

Lunches as an optional extra though, I don't see them making a profit as being wrong as long as poorer kids are given them for free (actually that could be another reason it's £2, to subsidise the free meals?)

Well, the kitchens at my direct grant school (so independent of the council) weren't allowed to make a profit. When they did have excess funds they got ploughed back into kitchen machinery like the dishwasher that featured a conveyor belt.

That dishwasher was quite a thing to behold in the sixties.

[d000hg]

Having an hotel in my past plan B , I know a bit about overheads. Mass catering on school level quality would add 25p to 30p max for staff, utilities depreciation etc per meal. If I was paid £1 per meal I could come up with much better. On the other hand if profit is my motive, I could show a nice loss on each meal costing £2.00; all I need to do is add on supervision and administration charges. I would not be surprised if the local authority claimed it cost them £3.80 or more for each meal.

Are the council outsourcing this to a catering company? If so they have to make a profit... one counter-argument to DA wishing private companies were used for a lot more stuff... whereas a public sector service can run profit-neutral (in theory).

Lunches as an optional extra though, I don't see them making a profit as being wrong as long as poorer kids are given them for free (actually that could be another reason it's £2, to subsidise the free meals?)

[MarillionFan]

9 years old regardless. She has crossed the government and should be taken out and shot.

AtW

[Sysman]

Lived close to the school so no need to have a school dinner but tried it once in primary four paying for it with my pocket money just to see what it was all about. Cost me thruppence in old money which is about 1.5p.

Absolute tulipe but had to be done so I could hit the football pitch early, I was tulipe at that too so a total waste of time and money. Could have bought a plastic Dalek instead.

My skool dinners were one and threepence (6.25p) versus a shilling at my sister's skool.

Cracking good meat'n'tater pie, with bangers and mash a close second. A seconds trolley came around with every meal and on Fridays we even got ice cream with our fruit salad (canned though that was). Cheese pie was good because most turned their noses up at it and there was lots extra to go round.

Twas a far cry from the slops we'd had at primary skool.

[Scoobos]

sssh, we'll get censored like this poor little tyke.

NeverSeconds