Educational & Social Services

Onsite Services - School Meals

Hungry for Success – a whole school approach to school meals in Scotland

The Scottish Executive has introduced Scottish Nutrient Standards for school lunches. Under the Hungry for Success initiative children will learn the benefits of healthy eating through classroom discussion and by being encouraged to make healthier choices in the dining room.

Hungry for Success aims to make school meals healthier by:

• Increasing potatoes, pasta and rice
• Increasing fruit and vegetables
• Increasing fibre
• Reducing fat
• Reducing sugar and salt
• Using healthy cooking methods

School meals offer nutritionally balanced, well presented food in an environment that is well ordered and sensitive to the needs of pupils, and which improves the lunchtime social experience for children.

East Ayrshire is currently the only Scottish Council to have achieved commended status for all primary and secondary schools in the Scottish Healthy Choices Award Scheme. Leading on from this success, and in accordance with the Hungry for Success initiative, Onsite Services has developed and introduced new school lunch menus.

Menus - Primary schools
Weekly Menus
Weekly Menus (Landscape)

Menus - Secondary Schools
Weekly Menus
Weekly Menus (Landscape)

Information on which menu is currently being served is available by contacting individual schools.

Contact details for primary schools

Contact details for secondary schools

To find out more about Hungry for Success visit the Scottish Executive's website at

www.scotland.gov.uk/education/schoolmeals

For advice on healthy eating visit the healthy eating website at

www.healthyliving.gov.uk