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Mums Caroline Michie, Celia Grace, Eve Rogans and Caroline
Emlyn-Jones sample the food at Eleanor Palmer School in
Kentish Town |
Parents get a taste of latest school dinners
Mums and Dads are impressed with new food firm
PARENTS are being sent back to school this week to test new
school dinners.
School catering firm Caterlink replaced Scolarest last week
and have promised to cook lunches using fresh ingredients at
all times.
And now they have asked parents to come and sample their menus
to show they are sticking to their word.
The company won the contract to provide school dinners from
the Town Hall in January after scores of schools ditched previous
supplier Scolarest, who were criticised for serving processed
food.
At a tasting session at Eleanor Palmer school in Lupton Street,
Kentish Town on Thursday, parents were invited to try a sample
Caterlink menu which included turkey, leek and cheese pie, root
vegetable and white bean stew, lamb koftas and fresh broccoli.
Many of the parents quizzed by the New Journal afterwards said
they were impressed with the quality of the food.
Mish Frederikse, who took her daughter off school dinners last
year because they were “monochromatic and too salty”
said: “You can see and taste the difference in this food.
The broccoli has a crunch to it. I’m definitely going to
put my children back on to it.” Mum Eve Rogans added she
would let her children eat the food. She said: “I loved
it. It’s like home cooking. My children haven’t had
school dinners for years and they are bored stiff of their packed
lunches.”
Naomi Sesay, who said her son Dante, 6, started asking for packed
lunches last year said: “They are much better. I like the
fact that the vegetables aren’t overcooked – the broccoli
is the right colour.”
Joe Read, 11, who finished two bowls of pear and red fruit crumble,
said the food “was dull and drab before – now it has
so much flavour.”
School head teacher Kate Frood, who confessed that eating the
school dinners before had felt a little like an ordeal, said
the new food was “infinitely better – it’s obviously
cooked with fresh ingredients”.
She added: “I liked the fact that it has not been a shocking
swing – they are still recognisable dishes like turkey
pie and lasagne. So many parents have taken their children off
school dinners – we wanted to show them that they really
have improved now.”
School dinner ladies Doreen East and Christine Steele said they
were also happy with the new menus.
Ms Steele, who has worked at the school for six years, said:
“A lot of the foods before were processed like frozen pizzas
and chicken burgers. Now we are cooking everything, even the
pizzas.” |
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