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  • Popular foods banned from school dinners in major rule change
  • Banning goujons and slashing costs with new cold options: what's really happening to school meals?
  • Hot school meals scheme to be overhauled after reports find poor quality and high waste

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chroniclelive.co.uk /1 month ago

Popular foods banned from school dinners in major rule change

It comes after a huge change in who qualifies for free meals

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thejournal.ie /1 month ago

Banning goujons and slashing costs with new cold options: what's really happening to school meals?

Plus: We tot up how much families are saving through the scheme. Are the government’s figures correct?

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irishtimes.com /1 month ago

Hot school meals scheme to be overhauled after reports find poor quality and high waste

Cold food options and more flexible menu options among the priorities for parents, according to Government research

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express.co.uk /1 month ago

Children’s lunch boxes to be policed in huge nanny state crackdown

Labour is overhauling school dinners.

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

Schools in England face checks to root out unhealthy lunches

Ministers draw up inspection regime to enforce rules limiting sugar, fat and saltSchools could be reprimanded if they serve food containing too much fat, salt or sugar under new ch...

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rte.ie /1 month ago

School meal review includes portion size and cold options

The Cabinet is to discuss proposals to overhaul the free hot school meals programme after two Government-commissioned reviews revealed shortcomings in the service.

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thejournal.ie /4 weeks ago

Hot school lunches need a rethink. Could including cold options be the answer?

Ireland’s new hot school meals scheme may have its challenges, but it could help transform children’s eating habits, and cold lunches might just be the key.

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independent.co.uk /1 month ago

How families could save £1,200 a year on school lunches and uniforms

More than three million children are set to benefit from free school meals and breakfast clubs

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rte.ie /1 month ago

School meal scheme to see cold options, new portion sizes

The Minister for Social Protection has said a number of changes are on the way to the free hot school meal programme, including the possible introduction of cold lunches.

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metro.co.uk /1 month ago

Schools introduce more food rules decades after Turkey Twizzlers ban

The desserts must contain or be served with fruit as part of the sweeping overhaul aimed at tackling childhood obesity and tooth decay.

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rte.ie /1 month ago

Watch: The main talking points on school meals programme

The free school meals programme is to be overhauled after two independent reviews highlighted a number of shortcomings.

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thejournal.ie /1 month ago

Raising them right: Hot school meals won't fix lunches if kids don't have enough time to eat

What is the point in focusing on hot school meals when schoolchildren are being forced to speed their way through food on their breaks?

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survivefrance.com /1 week ago

The Great Gin Famine

We were given baked beans out of a tin and dried eggs ‘scrambled egg’ for breakfast at secondary school in Scotland where the food was a horrible shock to my system. Not all instit...

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thedailymash.co.uk /1 month ago

Schools banned from deep-frying pupils

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dailymail.com /1 month ago

What's on the menu for George in the Eton canteen: Future king will tuck into 'smack day fries' and homemade flapjacks i...

From burgers to cereal, George, 13, can expect a school menu with dishes that are ordinarily served up to pupils across Britain - just with rather more expensive ingredients and mu...

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bbc.co.uk /1 month ago

Deep-fried food banned under new school dinner rules in England

The government describes its new school food standards as "once-in-a-generation changes".

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independent.co.uk /1 month ago

Lunchboxes should be banned in schools, Prue Leith says

The former ‘Great British Bake Off’ judge also said she would like to see free school meals for every child, and for the meals to be compulsory

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chroniclelive.co.uk /1 month ago

Union urges Tyneside council to bring school meals back in-house after damning national report

A national report revealed problems with school meals all over the country

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ekathimerini.com /1 week ago

Nationwide school meals program to serve nearly 250,000 students daily

A nationwide school meals program for the new academic year will begin on Tuesday, providing hot meals every school day to students at 1,982 public primary schools across 159 munic...

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rnz.co.nz /4 days ago

Christchurch school to deliver own lunch programme after mouldy meal saga

Haeata Community Campus has been granted an exemption under the healthy school lunches programme after campaigning to ditch the centralised catering model.

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reasonstobecheerful.world /2 weeks ago

How NYC Students Saved School Lunch

There were three clear reasons why Leslie Gomez Rivera avoided the cafeteria at her high school in Brooklyn: She didn’t like the food, the room felt hectic and there was a stigma a...

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dodgeglobe.com /1 month ago

Fresh from the Hen House

My public school kids took their lunches to school 80 to 85 percent of the time last year. They plan to take them even more this year. Their lunches were all healthy, homemade meal...

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dailyrecord.co.uk /2 weeks ago

Scots council that used debt collectors for school meals spent £10k on free lunches for teachers

Renfrewshire Council was forced to stop using sheriff officers to pursue parents for arrears after the Sunday Mail exposed the practice.

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dailymail.com /1 month ago

Labour accused of 'sidelining dinner ladies' in 'disgusting' move as it announces cash for teachers' pay rise

The GMB union is furious that a saving made from the school support staff pension scheme is being diverted away - despite individual pensions remaining unaffected.

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