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HEALTHY EATING
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At Colfe’s School eating healthily means the provision
of balance between current eating trends, good nutrition and fresh home-cooked food. This
applies to all of the catering services that we provide to the pupils, including the morning tuck
shop, lunch and services to the Sixth form pupils. Colfe’s School also provides special event
catering to support the many extra-curricuclar activities that take place in the
school.
The healthy eating programme, entitled “Eating for
Life”, adopts a strict criterion that far exceeds Government guidelines and recommendations. We
fully understand our responsibilities in educating, encouraging and promoting a healthy diet and
the huge role we play in laying down the foundations for each individual child’s future healthy
eating habits.
We know that pupils at Colfe’s are likely to be
familiar with a wide variety of foods and ingredients. Our menus have been developed to
include the latest food trends and incorporate an excellent variety of dishes that we know they
will be excited to eat.
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Brookwoods’ Promise
We know that our menus provide a healthy,
nutritionally balanced diet, and each menu is approved by a Nutritionist. We take pride in using
only the freshest, quality ingredients. We do not use convenience or processed foods. We
confirm that we do not use any GMO foods, nuts or nut products in the production of our
menus and we avoid foods that contain artificial colourings and flavourings.
We use seasonal products and ingredients and
communicate good ideas and best practice throughout our business to assist everyone in achieving
our goals. We do not have any allegiance to any specific suppliers. However, we do
implement controls to ensure that only unsalted butter, low salt, low sugar baked beans and similar
healthier products are purchased, in line with our food policy.
At Colfe’s School we believe it is our responsibility
to encourage pupils towards a balanced diet by creating attractive, nutritious menus and informing
them how to eat healthily. This has led to the introduction of the Eating for Life
programme.
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“EATING FOR LIFE”……. PROGRAMME
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GIMME 5
To encourage the consumption of at least five portions
of fruit and vegetables each day, the
Gimme 5 programme is promoted daily. Blue cards are used to identify dishes on the
menu, and those items containing a portion of vegetables and fruit are highlighted with silver
stars.
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UNSALTED
Our “Unsalted” programme is hugely successful,
highlighting the dangers of too much salt in the diet and explaining the recommended daily maximum
salt intake levels,
Every member of the catering staff involved in cooking
food is trained, off site, in how to adopt new methods of flavouring and cooking without the use of
salt.
Menu items, such as bacon and ham, that contain salt
are labelled using our “ Halt the Salt” stickers on blue cards, in order to raise awareness.
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BRAIN FOODS!
Pupils of all ages at Colfe’s School need to “Eat
Right to stay Bright!”;We provide food that stimulates the brain and understand that the right diet
improves concentration, helps study, assists memory and prevents sluggishness.
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CALCIUM IS COOL
Our “Calcium is Cool” programme aims to raise
awareness of the importance calcium plays in diets.
Most bone building occurs during childhood, so it is
vital that plenty is present in the diet. Too much salt in the diet causes calcium to be lost from
bones, so this programme works extremely well alongside our “Unsalted” promotion.
“Calcium is cool” emphasises the foods rich in calcium
which are available at mealtimes, and informs of the dangers of not eating enough of these
foods.
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VEGGIETASTIC!
”Veggietastic” is an ongoing promotion and is designed
to deliver an interesting interactive and mouth-watering introduction to unusual vegetables,
whilst emphasising how important they are in the diet.
A seasonal “guest” vegetable is offered every week, in
addition to the usual fresh vegetable menu choices. Explanations of origination, vitamins and
mineral content, as well as interesting facts, are promoted alongside the tastings.
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