how much for school dinners?

Rachie_B

£2.20 a day for primary school?!! that seems pretty steep

I pay £1.60 a day for my son in Infants ( juniors is same price) healthy choices every day and chip day on friday lol

My eldest just started secondary and he gets £2.50 a day
a hot 2 course meal is £1.90,big portions apparently so not too bad IMO

Kimitatsu

£2 a day in Lincolnshire BUT we are not a school that has a kitchen. I think its quite expensive for deep fried sausages and chips, although their argument is that its the transport that costs the money!! The Healthy schools team is coming in next month, and boy am I looking forward to that conversation.

So my boys have packed lunches, for £20 a week they can have entirely organic lunches and I get change! They are also like one of the other posters in that they like to have a cooked evening meal where we all sit down together.

kmate

We dont get school dinners at all ! I wish we did. Its just lunchboxes for us.have all of your schools got canteens on-site then? or are the meals transported from somewhere else?

~daisy~_2

even though my son has a school dinner - he still sits down and has a proper dinner at home with the family too

i wouldnt dream of not giving him dinner just cos he had one at lunchtime - he would think he was being starved LOL

Kimberley

£1.70 with Sodexho, who I work for as a dinner lady in the south east. I would strongly recommend you supply a packed lunch instead considering what the dinners are like :rolleyes:

My kids have a few cubes of Melon, Pineapple and 4 Strawberrys each with a mini pitta bread stuffed with salad inside and a smoothie drink (I make my own going by the Innocent ones ) All this costs just a little more a week then paying for horrible school dinners.

Carmina_Piranha_3

it's £8.25 a week at our primary school, the council caterers do every school i think. high school told us £2 a day would cover a meal but with a portion of baked beans being about 90p i can't see how

my son takes sandwiches anyhow, he's got a thing for pitta bread at the moment.

ead

there are many schools in my area that don't have a kitchen and have to have there dinners transported but it still the same price the cost is not bumped up to cover the transport

Rachie_B

Kimberley wrote: »

£1.70 with Sodexho, who I work for as a dinner lady in the south east. I would strongly recommend you supply a packed lunch instead considering what the dinners are like :rolleyes:

My kids have a few cubes of Melon, Pineapple and 4 Strawberrys each with a mini pitta bread stuffed with salad inside and a smoothie drink (I make my own going by the Innocent ones ) All this costs just a little more a week then paying for horrible school dinners.

is that all they have to eat ? :eek: my son would need 10 times that ! lol

blaise802001

Janepig wrote: »

£8.25 here in Carmarthenshire (someone do the maths for me as to what it is per day!). Dinners are pretty reasonable, they've been doing healthier stuff for a while, everything has to be fresh ingredients, etc... I know this because mil is the school cook (although she's off sick at the mo). Monday is DD's favourite though because it's CHIP DAY!!!!! I've been contemplating packed lunch for her because she is good at eating a healthier sort of picnic, but I just feel it's making work for myself.

Jxx

Err that would be £1.65

blaise802001

£1.60 a day here or £8 a week. They also have healthy options here too..seems as though the price goes up 5p a day every school year here, or that's what it has been doing..oh and I'm near Manchester. Wait till I have all 4 of my kids there I'm going to be looking at around £35 a week for school dinners :eek: :eek: