4. After school club recipes and tips Recipes for success Tried and tested nutritionally-analysed recipes designed to help you develop a popular compliant menu Recipes Why has this booklet been developed? We know that some schools find it difficult to understand and implement the food- Page 3 Why has this booklet been developed? based standards for school food other than lunch, especially in after school clubs. Page 4 Frequently asked questions This booklet contains ideas and practical tips on how to provide low-cost and easy- to-make meals, snacks and drinks for after school clubs which meet the food-based Page 5 At a glance – the food-based standards for food other than lunch standards. It also includes 10 tried and tested after school club recipes. Page 6 Food examples and ideas for after school clubs Page 7 More ideas – and what not to include The Children’s Food Trust Primary School Food Survey found that 21 per Page 8 Drinks cent of schools had an after school club on their premises.1 Page 9 Recipe index Page 10 Chinese vegetable stir-fry The food-based standards for food by extending healthier food options other than lunch are important to: across the school day. Page 11 Speedy chicken biryani Page 12 Chilli con carne • help reduce the number of children • increase opportunities for children who are overweight or obese. The most and young people to help them to Page 13 Salmon fishcakes recent findings from the National Child eat healthily. Healthy eating messages Measurement Programme (2011–2012) taught at school should be reflected Page 14 Cheese quesadilla show that more than a fifth of reception- in the choice of food schools provide, Page 15 Carrot and potato soup aged children attending school were to encourage children to make healthy categorised as overweight or obese, food choices.3 Page 16 Paninis rising to one in three children in Year 6.2 To find out more information about Page 17 Cheesy, vegetable-topped muffins • promote consistency and ensure that the food-based and nutrient-based Page 18 Apple-berry fool the hard work of schools and caterers standards, go to the Children’s Food providing healthy lunches is supported Trust website.4 Page 19 Mixed fruit smoothie Page 20 References Acknowledgements The Children’s Food Trust would like Two of the recipes included in this book to thank the following schools and were tried and tested by the Children’s caterers for sharing their recipes: Food Trust at Fundayz After School Club, Wellgate Primary School, Barnsley. • Longcroft Secondary School and Three of these recipes have been Taylor Shaw Catering developed and used by the Trust’s • Beverly High School and national Let’s Get Cooking programme Taylor Shaw Catering (www.letsgetcooking.org.uk) • Windlestone School, Durham 2 3 Frequently asked questions: applying the school food At a glance – the food-based standards for food standards to after school clubs other than lunch The food-based standards for food other than lunch apply to all food provided 2. Do all after school in school up to 6pm. This includes breakfast clubs, mid-morning break services, 1. Do all after school clubs club food providers have tuck shops, vending machines and after school clubs. have to comply with the food-based to meet the standards? standards for food other than lunch? Yes, all food providers including Yes, these standards apply to all food and teachers, school caterers, private These foods should be provided drink provided on the premises of local companies, charities, volunteers, Food/food groups Food other than lunches authority-maintained school up until 6pm. parents or other person have to meet the standards. This includes breakfast clubs, Fruit and vegetables Fruit and/or vegetables must be provided in all places where pupils can buy mid-morning break services, tuck shops, food in school vending machines and after school clubs. Water Free, fresh drinking water should be provided at all times Only healthier drinks are permitted. These include: • Plain water (still or sparkling) 3. Should after • Plain low-fat milk school clubs coordinate with Healthier drinks • Plain fruit juice or vegetable juice other food providers in school? • Combinations of fruit juice (at least 50 per cent) and water • Flavoured milk containing at least 90 per cent low-fat milk and less Yes, there should be a process to coordinate than 5 per cent added sugar catering services across the school day. If you run an after school club, check with the breakfast club, mid-morning break These foods should be provided on a restricted basis, or not at all services, tuck shop and lunchtime food Food/food groups Food other than lunches 4. Do after school providers if you are going to serve clubs have to demonstrate any menu items which are restricted Starchy food cooked Starchy food cooked in fat or oil such as roast potatoes, chips, fried rice and that they are meeting by the standards. For a summary in fat or oil – restricted garlic bread should not be provided on more than three days a week, whether the food-based standards? of the food-based standards at lunchtime or at any other time in the school day where food is provided see page 5. Yes, the after school club food provider Deep-fried food No more than two deep-fried food items such as chips and battered or coated products should be provided in a single week, whether at lunchtime or at any should give evidence of compliance with – restricted other time in the school day where food is provided the standards to the senior manager responsible for school food. A meat product, either manufactured or homemade, from each of these four groups may be provided once per fortnight across the school day. This applies to lunchtime and all other times in the school day where food is provided: 5. Should after school clubs consult Meat products Group 1: Burger, hamburger, chopped meat, corned meat the whole school food policy? – restricted Group 2: Sausage, sausage meat, link, chipolata, luncheon meat Group 3: Individual meat pie, meat pudding, Melton Mowbray pie, game pie, Yes, many schools have a whole school food Scottish (or Scotch) pie, pasty or pastie, bridie, sausage roll policy, which restricts the types of food children Group 4: Any other shaped or coated meat product such as are allowed to eat at school. Check with the nuggets, meatballs headteacher to see if they have a policy, and what Salt should not be available to pupils to add to food after food has been cooked this means for the food and drink that you can Salt and condiments Salt should not be provided on tables or service counters provide at after school club. – restricted Condiments such as ketchup and mayonnaise should be available only in sachets or individual portions of not more than 10g or 1 teaspoonful Offer only nuts, seeds, fruit or vegetables without added fat, salt, sugar or Snacks honey (except for dried fruit which may contain up to 0.5 per cent vegetable A simple three-step process to check that the food provided at your after – restricted oil as a glazing agent). Savoury crackers and breadsticks must not be school club meets the food-based standards and the schools’ food policy. provided at any other time of the school day except lunch Cakes and biscuits Cakes and biscuits must not be provided at any other time of the school day Step 1. Write a Step 2. Check this food provision meets Step 3. Give a copy of – restricted except lunch list of all the the standards. Visit the Children’s Food your after school club food and drink Trust website. menu and completed Confectionery Confectionery such as chocolate, chocolate biscuits, cereal bars or sweets you provide. checklist to the school. – not permitted must not be provided at any time of the school day 4 5 Food examples and ideas for after school clubs More ideas – and what not to include Snacks: cold items Snacks: hot items How to include fruit and What can’t I serve at after • Breakfast cereals with milk • Toast or bread rolls with vegetables at after school clubs? or yoghurt spread, peanut butter* school clubs • Confectionery; chocolate, sweets, or yeast spread/extract • Whole/pieces of fresh fruit, such chewing gum, sugar-free sweets/ • Yoghurt or fromage frais as banana, apple, grapes, pear chewing gum (plain or fruit flavoured) • Toasted teacakes, crumpets or bagels • Pots of sliced/chopped fruit, • Cereals with added chocolate • English muffins/bagels such as melon, berries, pineapple • Toasted sandwiches, • Cereal bars and processed fruit • Plain currant/raisin bread warm pitta, paninis or wraps • Canned fruit in natural juice, such bars; these are categorised as as peaches, pears, mandarins, confectionery • Sandwiches – use a variety of • Bacon sandwiches pineapple different types of bread • Crisps (including baked crisps, • Tortillas, fajitas, burritos, • Fruit kebabs tortilla chips, potato sticks, puffs, • Filled pitta, bagels or rolls quesadillas, enchiladas prawn crackers) • Jelly with fruit • Wraps, such as Mexican bean • Toast with baked beans, cheese, • Japanese rice crackers eggs (scrambled, boiled or • Pasta salads • Yoghurt with fruit poached) • Pretzels • Sandwich fillings/toppings: cheese, • Banana custard • Omelette or Spanish omelette • Bombay mix hard-boiled egg, peanut butter, • Smoothies houmous, tahini, sliced meat, • Tortilla (thick omelette with • Nuts* with added salt or fat bacon, bean salad, meat or fish potatoes or vegetables) • Dried fruit without added fat, paste (potted meat), tinned fish sugar or salt, such as apricots, • Cakes: slices of cake, Swiss • Quiche sultanas, raisins, dates roll, fruit cake, banana cake, • Combinations of nuts* and seeds • Pizza slice with toppings apple cake, sponge, fairy cakes, without added fat, sugar or salt • Crudités, vegetable sticks individual cake bars e.g.