What’s For Lunch - Pilgrims Pre-Preparatory School, Bedford

Our catering team works hard to ensure that the children have a balanced diet, whilst making it as delicious as possible. Meals are prepared freshly each day in the school kitchen. Mrs Bhogal, our catering manager, works closely with parents to ensure healthy, nutritional options are available to the children.

A few of the golden rules in our kitchen are:

All school meals are cooked without adding any extra salt; herbs and seasoning are added for flavouring instead
For their morning snack the children have fruit and are also offered something else to choose from such as: cream crackers, cheese fingers, dried fruit, breadsticks, homemade carrot cake, flapjack or scones
All cakes and tray bakes have had their recipe sugar intake quartered and yet they still taste delightful
All our tomato sauces are cooked with carrots and courgettes added and blended in for extra goodness; the children don’t realise how nutritious the sauces are, they just notice how delicious they taste!
All sausages, cod fillet fish fingers and chicken fillet nuggets are oven-baked rather than fried
We use 50/50 wholemeal and white flour to make our bread
All vegetables are freshly steamed to retain their goodness and nutrition
We serve fresh, natural, unsweetened yoghurt, topped with a range of fruit purees so the children can create their own flavours
Additionally, fresh fruit is available all day long; children can choose it for breakfast, snack time, lunchtime, at after school clubs or at Owls
In the spirit of keeping the children interested in trying new flavours and introducing new superfoods, we have added goji berries into our flapjacks and chia seeds to our biscuits as hidden health boosters
We have introduced popcorn as a morning snack; it is ‘popped’ in the kitchen with no added salt or sugar making it a healthy and nutritious snack