Category: Education
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Green Shoots
The annual National Growing for Wellbeing Week will be taking place from Monday June 7th to Sunday June 13th, organised by ‘Life at No.27’, a gardening and wellbeing therapy organisation. The aim is to demonstrate how growing your own produce can help wellbeing, both physically and mentally. At schools, the week can be used to…
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Chefs in Schools
The aim of charity Chefs in Schools is to improve the health of children by transforming school meals and food education. The charity, which started in 2018, does this by recruiting chefs to work in schools or by training existing catering staff. Currently, Chefs in Schools works with 80 schools in London and plans to…
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Award Winning Catering Innovation
The University of Reading, Berkshire, scooped the “Innovation in Catering” Award in the 2020 College and University Business Officers (CUBO) Awards for its introduction of smart coffee machines. This initiative has succeeded in boosting the use of reusable cups from 12% to 69% in eight months*. It also helps to reduce waste and recycling costs.…
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The Breakfast Club
It’s important for children to start the day with a healthy breakfast so they are able to concentrate and focus at school. The Magic Breakfast charity works with 480 schools ensuring that over 48,000 children have breakfast. In addition to providing food, the charity’s team offers nutrition and allergen guidance to partner schools and advises…
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Five Ways to Use & Interview with Darren Creed
Five bean salad Pulses are a brilliant and cost-effective way of adding one of your ‘5 a day’ into a dish. They’re a great base ingredient for lots of dishes including salads, curries and casseroles. The Country Range Five Bean Salad is a mix of cannellini beans, red kidney beans, chick peas, borlotti beans and…
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Looking Ahead
By Philip Rees-Jones University caterers are constantly having to adapt to cater for the changing needs of students during COVID-19. We asked Philip Rees-Jones, the recently appointed chairman of The University Caterers’ Association (TUCO), for his adviceon how caterers can cope during the pandemic. Philip is also Deputy Director of Estates and Campus Facilities at…
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Managing allergies in School and Universities
Food allergies among children are on the increase according to recent figures. A report from Natasha’s Allergy Research Foundation (NARF) says the number of cases of children hospitalised with severe allergic reactions in England has increased by 72% over the last six years (NHS digital data). The number of hospital admissions of those under 18…
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The Early Years
Rationing, empty shelves and unavailable supermarket online delivery slots were just some of the problems pre-schools and nurseries encountered during lockdown. For those which remained open for children of key workers, this meant scouring shops looking for food, often standing in long queues as they weren’t given priority treatment. The Wendy House Day Nursery in…
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Back to School – OPERATING IN A COVID-19 WORLD
It is always a challenge to feed children nutritious and tasty meals that they will actually eat while adhering to the School Food Standards, working to tight budget constraints and retaining good staff in the kitchen. However, the additional complexities of implementing social distancing measures and the concerns of anxious parents and children can leave…
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The show goes on for 40 National Chef of the Year chefs
Despite the challenging situation the world has found itself in, the Craft Guild of Chefs has confirmed that its National Chef of the Year competition will still go ahead this year as it reveals who has made it through to the next stage. Changes were made to the online entry process so that chefs had…