My mother was as school dinnerlady.... it cost more to pay her wage for two days than it did to provide the food for the week. That is the problem that we have now. Average dinner money is £1.40 per day. Of that, an average of £1.03 goes on administration costs/wages. The remaining 37p goes on food. That's just under a quarter of the whole per day.

Some primary schools like the one Limpit goes to are lucky - they receive extra fruit to distribute. When she moves up to 'big school' (secondary education), that will vanish and she will have the option to eat chips every day.

LTS