Six primary schools will also no longer be able to cook meals on site.Hot meals are to be prepared in neighbouring schools and transported ininsulated boxes to the schools and nurseries.
Catering staff at the affected settings are to be redeployed to otherschools.
A council spokesman said that most nurseries had too little demand tomake employing catering staff cost-effective.
Marilyne MacLaren, convener for Education, Children and Families atEdinburgh council, said, 'These kitchens will be mothballed for up to ayear while we monitor the uptake of school meals. The current trendshows that numbers are now starting to increase, and I hope that ifthere is sufficient demand this will allow us to reopen these kitchensin the future.'
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