School Dinners
Some months back, I read about Jamie Oliver's school dinners in the paper. Apparently, the UK celebrity chef hatched a plan to revolutionise school dinners in the Greenwich area in London. He made a sort of reality tv documentary hybrid of it on the UK's channel 4.
So I just caught an episode on the telly and I thought its pretty good. I appreciate the way he's covered all the angles. Not only has he come up with a healthier albeit slightly more expensive alternative, he's also come up with plans on how the whole thing works, from getting new equipment in school kitchens, to training the dinner ladies, to getting the government to pay them extra wages for the extra work (they prepare everything from scratch now as opposed to freeze dried stuff before) and a "food week" in which kids are taught about food in all subjects from math to language. To educate kids about the difference between real food and junk food, he shows them what really goes into a chicken nugget. His team also came up with an entire package, with stickers, a song, the lot. Learn more about his campaign at Feed me better.
Watching the show, I was really impressed at how he solved the various problems that cropped up and that bit made me disregard the fact that it was a show about a celebrity chef or whether or not things said by MPs or whoever in the show were honest or not. I read an article which said the some schools have got long term contracts with private firms to cater food which sort of scuppers Jamie's plans obviously but from what I gather, the government is at least outwardly supporting it. They probably have to as well, given all the media exposure.
So I just caught an episode on the telly and I thought its pretty good. I appreciate the way he's covered all the angles. Not only has he come up with a healthier albeit slightly more expensive alternative, he's also come up with plans on how the whole thing works, from getting new equipment in school kitchens, to training the dinner ladies, to getting the government to pay them extra wages for the extra work (they prepare everything from scratch now as opposed to freeze dried stuff before) and a "food week" in which kids are taught about food in all subjects from math to language. To educate kids about the difference between real food and junk food, he shows them what really goes into a chicken nugget. His team also came up with an entire package, with stickers, a song, the lot. Learn more about his campaign at Feed me better.
Watching the show, I was really impressed at how he solved the various problems that cropped up and that bit made me disregard the fact that it was a show about a celebrity chef or whether or not things said by MPs or whoever in the show were honest or not. I read an article which said the some schools have got long term contracts with private firms to cater food which sort of scuppers Jamie's plans obviously but from what I gather, the government is at least outwardly supporting it. They probably have to as well, given all the media exposure.
