New winter menu launches for Carmarthenshire primary schools

Children across Carmarthenshire will be getting their first taste of the new winter menu when it launches in the county’s primary schools on Monday, November 3.
The refreshed winter menu is packed full of tasty homemade meals, with delicious dishes including cook’s choice homemade beef or vegetarian casserole with mashed potato, peas or mashed swede.
There’s also a range of curry dishes, including chicken tikka paninis and chicken korma with rice, as well as other children’s favourites such as spaghetti and meatballs, pizza and fish fingers - all guaranteed to warm their tummies on the cold winter days.
Amongst the desserts on offer is a homemade lemon cake with custard, and an old-fashioned homemade flapjack.
The menu, designed and implemented by Carmarthenshire Catering Service – part of Carmarthenshire County Council – follows the Welsh Government’s Appetite for Life legislation, to improve the health of children by offering nutritionally-balanced school meals.
The nutritional value of every school meal is measured using specialist software to ensure that all meals comply with school nutritional standards with plenty of goodness as well as reduced fat and salt.
Catering Services Manager Sandra Weigel said: “The changing of the seasons provides us with the opportunity to cook a variety of fantastic foods that are only available during the autumn and winter. Seasonal foods are picked at the peak of freshness and offer higher nutritional content and natural diversity.”
For further information visit www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/ or call 01267 246484.