Healthy Eating at St. John's
We provide one service daily for the students, served by our friendly, fully trained team. Lunch is served in class order (youngest first) between 11.40 a.m. and 1.10 p.m.
Healthy Choices
We aim to provide a well-balanced diet for your son and we are aware of certain special dietary requirements. Every effort is made to encourage the students to choose a healthy diet:
- Jacket potatoes always available.
- Flora margarine available as well as butter.
- Brown and wholemeal always available as well as white bread - all of which are low sodium.
- Fresh fruit always available for dessert.
- Only low sodium salt on the tables.
- The salad bar has a range of fresh, homemade salads daily.
- Semi-skimmed always available as well as whole milk.
Healthy Cooking
As part of our commitment to producing a healthy menu selection the following methods of food production are used:
- Food is cooked in the oven as opposed to frying whenever possible.
- Only vegetable oil is used when frying.
- All sauces and custards are made with low fat spreads and semi-skimmed milk.
- Our cooking methods introduce herbs and spices to flavour dishes in order to reduce the salt content.
- Sugar is reduced in quantity whenever possible.
- Brown rice is used with white rice.
- Wholemeal flour is used with white flour.
- Cheese used is a low fat style.