Extra helping of healthy school meals for FalkirkLocal youngsters are to benefit from £135,510 of new funding to Falkirk Council to promote healthy eating in local schools. Welcoming the extra money from the Scottish Executive, Falkirk East MSP Cathy Peattie said: "This will provide more resources to help get the healthy eating, healthy lifestyle message across. The cash can be used to buy resources like books and DVD’s to teach pupils about healthy eating. It can also be used by schools to put in place systems for anonymising free school meals to increase take up. "This builds on our Hungry for Success initiative. We need to maintain the push for a change in pupils' attitudes and habits, encouraging them to choose healthier options so that they are likely to enjoy a longer and healthier life.” The Scottish Executive's Hungry for Success has already seen over £120
million invested to make sure school meals meet strict nutritional guidelines,
provide fresh, free drinking water to all pupils and provide free fruit
to primary one and two three times a week. (February 2007) |
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