Do you have a healthy eating policy?
Yes. A good diet is important for good health. A healthy and varied diet can help maintain a healthy body weight, enhance general well-being and reduce the number of diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.
The provision of school meals in North Yorkshire encompass the Government's guidelines for a healthy diet, which are:
- to enjoy your food;
- to eat a variety of different foods;
- to eat the right amount to be a healthy weight;
- to eat plenty of foods rich in starch and fibre;
- to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables;
- not to eat too many foods that contain a lot of fat;
- not to have sugary foods and drinks too often.
What's in a school lunch?
- All the meat and poultry used is from Yorkshire farms
- Fruit and vegetables are from suppliers committed to the regional sourcing of fruit and vegetables, based in Yorkshire.
- Only free range eggs are used, sourced from Yorkshire producers
- Only non hydrogenated fats are used in baking
- Low fat products such as yoghurts are used
- At least three of the five fruit and vegetables a day
- Plenty of plant based fibre and slow release carbohydrate
- Zinc, calcium and vitamins for healthy growth
- All recipes are low salt and low sugar.
What's not in a school lunch?
We do not use products which have additives such as sweeteners, thickeners, emulsifiers and colourings which have been associated with health problems in children and young adults.
Download a copy of our 
Food policy [21kb] [pdf].