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Home Grown

Jamie Oliver at Lincoln Castle.
Jamie Oliver at Lincoln Castle

TV Chef Jamie Oliver Visits Lincoln

He's been at an event held at Lincoln Castle as part of his mission to get children eating healthy food.

Jamie's helping Lincolnshire County Council match up rural primary schools to pubs or B&B's - anywhere with a kitchen that can provide hot meals. Of course these meals are also prepared with Lincolnshire home grown produce.

Oliver said only three of 286 primary schools in Lincolnshire have a kitchen to supply hot meals to pupils.

"A year ago we got £220m out of the British Government to help improve school meals. The result is that each school gets £1,200 plus 50p a kid," Oliver said.

"A year later I thought it was my duty to make another programme to see what has happened, what we have achieved and what we haven't achieved, and the result is that I found Lincolnshire."

Oliver said the fact that so many under-11s in Lincolnshire and 11 other counties are surviving on packed lunches led him to focus his attention on the demise of the school kitchens.

"I looked at that £1,200 and thought what on earth is a Lincolnshire school going to do with it, because £1,200 is not going to make much of a change," he said.

He said the solution is to use the £1,200, plus 50p per child, to train local chefs to cook school meals and ask local farmers to provide the ingredients.

Chefs will be trained by a county council nutritionist and local farmers are supplying cheap, fresh produce, he said.

Jamie Oliver explains how businesses and schools can help each other in Lincolnshire
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