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Kerrymaid has teamed up with children’s food campaigner, Jeanette Orrey to launch a new guide targeted at the education market.

The Kerrymaid education channel brochure includes allergy information, nutritional facts and advice on how to increase school meals uptake, alongside top tips and recipes from Kerrymaid’s chefs and Orrey.

Grace Keenan, Kerrymaid marketing manager for foodservice, said: “We have worked closely with Jeanette Orrey MBE to develop recipes that make catering to complicated children’s dietary requirements that much simpler, without having to create menus in isolation. Kerrymaid’s extensive product portfolio is dairy free, suitable for vegetarians and can also be consumed by those following gluten free diets.

“National School Meals Week is an incredibly important week in the school catering calendar as it highlights how we as a channel can improve the school meals of children across Britain. It also highlights what everyone can be doing better in the channel whilst giving praise to the school caterers who deserve appreciation for their efforts.”

Top tips

• National School Meals Week is a perfect platform to bring students and parents together and enjoy a tasty school meal – invite parents to sample the range of school meals you offer
• Hold themed days where parents and children can get involved – creating excitement around school lunches and the chance to educate children about a wide variety of cuisines
• Hold quarterly meetings with parents to get feedback on the types of food they would like to see their children eating
• Where possible source produce locally and communicate this with parents
• Remember children eat with their eyes so develop fun, colourful and interesting meals!

To request your own copy of the education channel brochure ahead of National School Meals Week please contact kerrymaid@thehubagency.co.uk.