School Meals 
Take a look at our
press release about our award winning catering service for the
quality of the school meals. In Cheshire East we provide over
17,000 healthy lunches every day, made in schools by our highly
skilled catering staff. All meals have to meet strict government
nutritional standards and we use locally sourced ingredients
wherever possible.
Please see our School
Meals Menu page for more details.
Meet Debbie Worsley, Cheshire East Council's
School Chef of the Year 2010 who was recently Highly Commended for
her dessert at the North West Regional heat of the national School
Chef of the Year competition run by the Local Authority Caterers
Association (LACA). To enjoy her award-winning dessert
'Chocolate Surprise Muffin' follow the recipe below - and the
surprise? Beetroot! This was Debbie's ingenious way of packing more
nutrition into her scrumptious pud.
Chocolate Surprise Muffin
Ingredients
1.25 oz cocoa
3.25 oz plain flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
4.25 oz castor sugar
2 small eggs
3 fl oz oil
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
4.5 oz cooked beetroot
Method
1. Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl.
2. Puree cooked beetroot, add eggs, vanilla essence and oil and
blend until smooth.
3. Add beetroot mix to dry ingredients and mix lightly.
4. Pour into muffin cases.
5. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes until firm to touch.
OVEN TEMPERATURE: GAS 4.
Frosting
1 oz cream cheese
1 oz mascarpone cheese
1.5 oz butter
1 tblsp honey
Beat together to make frosting.
The Advantages of School Meals
Giving your child a healthy school lunch also saves busy mums
and dads valuable time, and is the easiest way to be sure that your
child is getting a good meal. It also encourages children to
socialise at meal times, develop good table manners and broaden
their experience of foods.
Many families are eligible for free
school meals, yet don't claim what they are entitled to.
If you think you may qualify visit the free school meals page for all the latest
information and details of how to apply.
