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Typical Menu
First Choice
May often be classed as a traditional dish such as: Roast Pork, Braised Beef & Dumplings, Savoury Pie or a Curry or Lasagne
Second Choice
Popular Fare such as: Tortilla Wraps, Fish Goujons or Tuna Pasta Bake
Third Choice
Vegetarian choice, this must be different to the second choice. For example if Cheese and Tomato Pizza was on the menu, the vegetarian choice offered may be Vegetable Samosas, Vegetable Bake or Cheese Eggs
Potato Options
Wide selections of potato choices are served daily as well as rice, pasta and jacket potatoes.
Bread
A selection of white / wholemeal breads are available each day served without spread.
Vegetables
A variety of fresh vegetables are served daily, a minimum of three fresh vegetables is provided but our cooks usually produce many more.
Cold Choice
Salad Bars are provided as an option to the hot meal service, the children can choose from a selection of cooked meats, quiche, samosas, cheese, tuna, eggs and salmon fillets. They can make up their own combination salad choosing from a wide range of salad bowls including lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot, peppers, radishes, coleslaw and many more. They can choose a jacket potato, baby boiled potatoes or wholemeal bread.
Healthy choices of sweets are made available and include fruit pots, melon boats, kiwi, yoghurt & biscuits and cheese & biscuits.
Hot Sweets
Fruit based sweets are encouraged as hot option choices such as apple crumble, apricot cobbler, fruit tart, rhubarb sponge and pineapple upside down cake can be served with custard sauce.
In Secondary Schools
There are the minimum requirements as above but with the addition of extra main choices and extra hot sweets. In all units there must be more than one choice of main course and sweet available for every child throughout the service period, in order to give end of queue satisfaction. Many secondary schools also provide meal deals as another option to the hot multi choice and salad bar. The meal deal consists of three items for example a sandwich, fruit pot and a drink.
Here is a sample menu:
Monday
- Shepherds Pie
- Fish Goujons
- Home Made Cheese and Tomato Pizza - Vegetable Bake
- Chocolate Sponge
- Fruit Jellies
- Ice-cream and Tutti Fruity Sauce
Tuesday
- Roast Chicken & Stuffing
- Fish Fingers
- Filled Jacket Potato
- Cheesy Pasta Bake
- Rhubarb Crumble
- Cream Meringues
- Baked Current Buns
Wednesday
- Mince & Yorkshire Pudding
- Chicken Fillet in a Bun
- Tuna Wraps
- Quiche
- Angel Cake
- Rice Pudding and Sultanas
- Cream Scones and Strawberries
Thursday
- Chicken Curry & Rice
- Corned Beef Hash
- Fish in Parsley Sauce
- Hot Cheesy Pittas
- Ginger Sponge
- Fruit Flan
- Fresh Fruit Salad
Friday
- Battered Fish
- Lasagne
- Vegetable Bake
- Cheese & Broccoli Quiche
- Marble Sponge
- Fruit Cobbler
- Fruit Trifle