[joanne72_uk]

I would ask exactly how nutritious school dinners actually are, I pay for my son to have school dinners and often he comes home stating he has had a sandwich or a piece of pizza and dessert the other week was HALF an Icelands double licker ice lolly (99p for 10), is that really a substantial meal or value for money, whats wrong with good old potato pie and sponge pudding and custard, good heart meals that fill them up and cost next to nothing to make.

As for using child benefit money to provide these meals, what happens during the school holidays?

I think these 'do-godders' need to get a life and stop trying to dictact what we spend our money on. If they really want to do something, have a proper look at what children are really being fed in schools and not what we are lead to believe they are receiving !!