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What Price a Healthy School Lunch?

Date: 15 Jan 2010

What Price a Healthy School Lunch?

The School Food Trust is calling for a January sale on school lunches - as new research highlights the importance of price when it comes to encouraging more children to try a healthy school meal. The Trust - the organisation charged with transforming school food - is urging more local authorities and schools to join the high street in using special offers to tempt customers, at a time of year when cash is particularly tight for parents. It comes with the publication of new research showing that any rise in price for school meals is likely to see a fall in the number of pupils buying them - with demand for school food more sensitive to price changes than other food products. Read more: http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/news-events/news/what-price-a-healthy-school-lunch