The first-ever Nursery Food Awards have been hailed a great success by judges who received more than 70 applications and were impressed by the high standards of food on offer at the settings they visited.
CHILDSPLAY CLAREMONT
Childsplay Claremont Nursery Co-operative in Newcastle-upon-Tyne came first in the awards. At a ceremony held at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham in November it won £1,000 of Hobart kitchen equipment (news, 6 December). Judges said Childsplay had worked consistently for more than 20 years to give its children the best food possible.
Veronica Walsh, manager of Childsplay, says, 'We used the Caroline Walker Trust guidelines on nutrition to draw up our food policy, which is completely organic, and to guide our menus. We also used a software package called CHOMP to analyse the levels of vitamins and minerals in our food, and we sent our food policy to a dietician at Newcastle University who reviewed it for us.'
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