Is this a healthy lunch for a child?

However, another mother, Susan made her choice based on the nutritious value of the food. She said, “My daughter’s always had school dinners. I think she probably gets better healthier food by having a cooked lunch at school than she would if I made a few sandwiches.”

But how healthy are school dinners? Kaz, a father, wasn’t impressed with them, “Fizzy drinks were offered and I think there were a lot of chips.”

The question of how healthy school food is, was brought to the forefront by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who launched a campaign to improve children’s nutrition, after spending a year working in a school kitchen. The TV series about the campaign won a BAFTA award this week.

He was horrified at the junk food which he saw being served which included burgers, pizzas and chips. So he decided to ban the junk, and started cooking some good stews and curries for the children instead.

So Jamie improved the school dinners in that particular school, and trained the dinner ladies to cook healthy food. Then he put pressure on the government to improve the standards of school food across the country. And it looks like the changes have begun.

Anna, a pupil at a secondary school told us, “We used to have a fast food counter where you got chips and stuff but they stopped that this year. There’s a salad bar, which is good, so it’s healthier than it was.”

GLOSSARY 詞匯表
school dinner 校餐
cooked meal (熱)餐
packed lunch 自備午餐 sandwiches 三明治
on the basis of 基于... a sandwich bar 三明治吧
nutritious 有營養(yǎng)的 healthier 更為健康的
fizzy drinks 汽水 brought to the forefront 引起重視
celebrity chef 名廚
launched a campaign 發(fā)起一項(xiàng)運(yùn)動
junk food 垃圾食品 stews 燉肉（菜）
dinner ladies 餐廳女服務(wù)員 put pressure on 施加壓力
fast food 快餐 salad bar 重大打擊