Romilla Arber, Award-Winning Cookery Author and Founder of The Food Education Trust Challenges School Food Plan



Romilla Arber, award-winning author of "What's for Dinner? Second Helpings" and founder of The Food Education Trust (www.foodeducationtrust.com) is challenging the report prepared for the government on nutrition that recommends free school meals for all primary school pupils. The Trust's founder, award winning food author, Romilla Arber, believes that most school meals have little nutritional superiority to the food contained in packed lunches. The real problem is the type and quality of ingredients used in school meals that needs to be improved. Then by all means make the meals free.

Arber comments, "There is nothing wrong with the state setting down standards of nutrition that schools should meet in feeding the nation's children. It is the state that picks up the health bill later down the line so they have a right and indeed a responsibility to be involved. The reality is that until the budget for each meal per child is increased poor quality meals will prevail.

The Food Education Trust works with schools to help them improve the quality of the food they offer in their canteens and it is difficult working within the budget constraints they have. Most schools that have made a significant improvement to the food they offer have done so by engaging the parents and getting them to agree to an increase in the cost of the meals. By providing primary school age children with a quality well balanced diet the country would save money in the long term and the children would have better life chances as a result."
The Food Education Trust (www.foodeducationtrust.com), is an independent charity that provides children and adults with cookery skills so they can learn how to make good, nutritious, home cooked meals from scratch and rely less on processed and pre-packed foods. In the three years since it began, The Food Education Trust has touched the lives of over 15,000 people.

Funding comes solely from sales of Romilla's cookery books: "What's for Dinner?" and the award-winning "What's for Dinner? Second Helpings", which have together raised over £20,000 to date, all of which is invested in the trust. Ex-East Enders actress Nina Wadia, is a firm supporter of the trust and is working with it to help it deliver its objectives.

The Food Education Trust is entirely funded by sales of Romilla's books "What's for Dinner?" and the award-winning "What's for Dinner? Second Helpings" both are available to purchase in all good bookshops and online at www.amazon.co.uk

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