Before lunch, I asked the students in the Y7/8 class I am in today to rate the lunches 1-5 fingers using raised hands, 1 being “ew gross” and 5 being “OMG this is great”. The majority raised 1 finger, and about five students had 2 fingers raised.
The bell goes and out I go with the students to get lunch. There are three classes in this team with 80 students. I would say ¼ of the kids at the most took a lunch. So that's about 60 lunches untouched.
I struggled to remove the foil, and I needed to use a concrete garden wall to get any purchase to peel it off after stabbing it with the fork. I then took the photo accompanying this post.
It looked OK, but I am not a fan of carrots in a tomato sauce or with pasta, so it's already challenging my brain. First taste: I can taste the beef mince, and that's the only taste. The carrots are tasteless. The sauce is tasteless. It definitely needs seasoning.
I make my own pasta sauce and I pack in the garlic and herbs and use capsicum, mushrooms, onions and zucchini to make it taste great. The School Lunch Collective do not.
I did eat the whole meal, because my mum taught me to clear the plate, but I'm not left with a pleasant aftertaste. I'm left feeling I should have something more, but there's no fruit or biscuit supplied by the School Lunch Collective to Year 7 and 8 students.
So now I've written this very long post, I'm off the the staffroom to raid the fruit bowl. After school I foresee a trip to the dairy or a drive thru because I'll be hungry as.
P.S. after two passionfruit, I can still feel the taste of the mince and I'm starving already.
They certainly do not have eye appeal. Our gluten free students got the teeniest bag of corn chips today and an even smaller bag of some mix with dried peas in it and a very small nectarine for their lunch - just ridiculous! You are right year 7 & 8 get only this, no fruit. Fruit is what a lot of our students do not get at home so fruit would be good. They used to get a small piece of fruit in the previous lunch scheme.
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