Quality beef spotted at Commons lunch

Quality Standard beef and

lamb school lunch dishes made an appearance at the House

of Commons last week, courtesy of EBLEX.

The School Lunch on the Terrace event saw MPs, peers and local education authority (LEA) representatives sample three Quality Standard Mark beef and lamb dishes, which are currently on lunch menus in North Tyneside, Cumbria and Derbyshire schools.

EBLEX chief executive

Richard Ali said: "Increasing the amount of quality-assured produce on school lunch menus is an objective shared by everyone in the farming industry.

"By demonstrating how EBLEX has worked with these three local education authorities, we hope to show how a quality assured beef and lamb supply chain for the public sector can be put together to benefit everyone involved - from far-

mers and processors through to the schoolchildren themselves."

Barbara Patterson, catering services manager for North Tyneside Council, said the project had taken the LEA two years from conception to completion. "The challenge was to create two new recipes to high nutritional standards, which were not too time-consuming and within the constraints of a school meal budget."

Peter McGrath, catering manager for Derbyshire County Council, said his LEA, which

provided 33,000 meals to 430 schools, saw the partnership with EBLEX as an opportunity for

promoting quality because of its assurance mark.

The event, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on English Beef and Lamb, saw parliamentarians sample Braised Beef with a Potato Crust, Spicy Lamb Burgers with Lemon Salsa and Sautéed Beef with Egg Noodles.

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