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Compass Group sector lead for school lunches Ross Maclean and catering supervisor Elisa Metcalf inspect a container of lunches destined for a Manawatū school as part of the Government s healthy lunches in schools scheme.
Providing thousands of lunches a day under the government’s lunches-in-schools scheme is a massive operation, so how do the meals get from the kitchen to the playground? Paul Mitchell finds out. The Ministry of Education’s Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches programme, which expanded into Manawatū schools in February, aims to provide kids with a healthy lunch at school every day.
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Kids say: Lasagne please, but no thanks to fish
20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Lasagne - in this case an upmarket version at Ponsonby s Farina restaurant - has proved kids favourite meal in the free school lunch scheme. Photo / Michael Craig
Lasagne has proved to be the favourite food of children receiving free school lunches so far - but they will have to wait until the winter months to get it next year. Sabrina Matai a, who manages the school lunch programme for Libelle Group which fed 13 of the first 31 schools in a trial that started in February, said the company started providing just cold food such as sandwiches, but the children asked for hot food.