Nursery World - Catering for better tastes

By Mary Whiting, author of Dump The Junk!, a collection of more than 300 tips from parents on how to get children to enjoy healthy food A letter in the 20 November issue of Nursery World describes exactly how bad school and nursery food can be - fatty, sugary, salty, additive-laden, nutrient-depleted, processed glop. Since the 1980s, when the Government scrapped the nutritional requirement for school dinners, children have been eating some of the worst food in the land.

A letter in the 20 November issue of Nursery World describes exactly how bad school and nursery food can be - fatty, sugary, salty, additive-laden, nutrient-depleted, processed glop. Since the 1980s, when the Government scrapped the nutritional requirement for school dinners, children have been eating some of the worst food in the land.

Commercially-invented fast-food 'products' lead to serious, life-threatening conditions - heart disease, cancers, diabetes - and do nothing to educate young tastebuds nor teach anything about cookery. Even though additives in such foods can cause tantrums and hyperactivity, they are cheaper than real food ingredients, and catering firms have gone for the cheapest of everything. They could also take three-quarters of the money paid by parents as pure profit.

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