Tuesday, May 11, 2010

British school food

I don't ever remember school cafeteria food being very good. Greasy rectangles of pizza, fish sticks and johnny marzetti? However, after taking a look at Bean's school menu, I would take the old rectangle of pizza any day. Below I have listed some of the items from her latest school menu:
Toad in the Hole Omelette
Oven Baked Jacket Wedges
Flapjack fingers
Chicken Korma
Quorn Stir Fry (quorn is made of fungus and is a meat substitute)
Ham Ploughman's Lunch
Beefburger and Bap
Salmon Nibbles
Vegetarian Cottage Pie
Minced Beef Pie
Lamb Meatballs
Whitefish bake and chips
Now, some of these may be just fine for adults- but there is only one thing on the entire list that I personally would eat-- the jacket wedges are just a fancy British way of saying baked potatoes. But a 5 year old American girl? NOT.A.CHANCE. I don't see any mac and cheese, grilled cheese, chicken nuggets or peanut butter and jelly in the entire school year menu. When hubby and I first toured the school the headmaster showed us the menu and after reading through it our first question was -- can we pack lunches? Luckily for Bean -the answer was yes.