Eat Better, Do Better
In a drive to further improve school dinners across England, the Government introduced new standards for school food in 2006. The Government has introduced a combination of food and nutrient-based standards to help increase children’s intake of fruit, vegetables and oily fish as well helping reduce the intake of fat, sugar and salt.
School lunches must offer:
- Two portions of fruit and vegetables with every meal
- Oily fish at least once in every three week period
- Bread will additionally be available every day
- A limit of two single deep fried products will be available in a single week.
- Salt will not be available at lunch time
- The only drinks that will be available across all schools will be water, pure fruit juices, milk, yoghurt and milk drinks with less than 5% added sugar, low calorie hot chocolate, coffee and tea.
- Manufactures meat products such as chicken nuggets, burgers, sausage rolls are generally not available within the central contract. However sausages are offered and Eden Foodservice may offer other kitchen made meat products from time to time.
- Sauces will be issued at the counter by the caterer to control the amounts being consumed by pupils.
Confectionery, savoury snacks and fizzy drinks are not available as part of a school lunch. These products should therefore not be available from schools during the school day. Breakfast clubs, tuck sales and vending services should not be offering these products.
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Contact School Meals Client Officer
Food Safety Team
- Tel: 01803 208007
- Email: food.safety@torbay.gov.uk
- Fax: N/A
