It concerns me at time when I see people in our restaurants and Cafes who struggle with even the basic principles of using cutlery, and how to sit and eat a meal from a plate. 

Staggering I know, but I’m afraid there are more and more people coming through our schools who eat nothing but ‘hand held foods’ who struggle with a knife and fork.  It’s for this reason that we at bartlett mitchell want to provide great food in the schools cater for. The big story this week was Andrew Lansley’s slamming of Jamie Oliver’s approach to healthy eating. The Health Secretary said that the public needed to take some responsibility in the matter. It seemed a random and unfounded attack “for the sake of a headline”, as Jamie Oliver put it. It appeared that most were behind Jamie on this one, with The Telegraph, The Mail, and Twitterers, jumping to his defense over the weekend.

Lunchbox guidelines ‘bossy’ say parents

Along similar lines it seems there is a delicate balance between guidance and dictatorship when it comes to lunchboxes. A report by Ofsted suggests that parents are fed up of being told what they can and can’t put in their children’s lunchboxes. Instead they’d rather have advice on how to prepare healthier packed lunches.

This is great news to me as we’ve been giving parents suggestions for packed lunches for some years now.  For us it’s not about ‘the sell’ it’s about the child.  If a child chooses to bring in their own lunch then so be it but at least we can continue to play our part as responsible caterers and foodies to advise on the best possible lunch.