Catering for better tastes

By Mary Whiting, author of Dump The Junk!, a collection of more than 300 tips from parents on how to get children to enjoy healthy food A letter in the 20 November issue of Nursery World describes exactly how bad school and nursery food can be - fatty, sugary, salty, additive-laden, nutrient-depleted, processed glop. Since the 1980s, when the Government scrapped the nutritional requirement for school dinners, children have been eating some of the worst food in the land.