Lunch Menus

Our menus are:

Gold Standard Food for Life award winning
Seasonal and changed twice a year
We have monthly theme days and we run fun cooking events to educate children about healthy eating and cooking

All key stage 1 (KS1) pupils, including reception children, are entitled to free school meals. Your child could also get free school meals if you are receiving certain benefits.

If your child has any special dietary requirements, please can you inform us as soon as possible.

Thurrock Catering

Every day more than 15,000 school meals are served in Thurrock.

Thurrock provide affordable, nutritious meals for local school children.

Over 75% of the food is made using local ingredients:

organic and traceable farm fresh British meat
200,000 kilograms of fresh fruit and vegetables every year
fish that is caught from sustainable sources

Breaktime Snacks

Bulphan Academy is part of the Government’s School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme. Under the scheme, each child aged four to six (Early Years and Years 1 and 2) receive a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day.

All children are allowed to bring in the following snacks for breaktime:

Fruit
Dried Fruit e.g. raisins
Vegetables
Bread sticks
Plain crackers

Week 1 – Week commencing 31st October, 21st November, 12th December, 2nd January, 23rd January, 6th March and 27th March

Week 1
	Red Band	Blue Band	Jacket Potato	Sides	Desserts
Monday	Chicken Meatballs in a Tomato sauce with spaghetti pasta	Meat Free Sausage Roll with diced potato	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Peas	Ice Cream
Tuesday	Chicken Chunks with Potato Crispers	Quorn Nuggets with Potato Crispers	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Baked Beans	Cocoa Sponge with cocoa sauce
Wednesday	Roast Chicken with Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding	Roast Quorn Fillet with Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Fresh Carrots	Fruit Jelly
Thursday	Cheese & Tomato Pizza with Potato Wedges	Vegetable Fingers with Potato Wedges	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Sweetcorn	Coconut Sponge
Friday	Fish Fingers with Chips	Quorn Sausage with Chips	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Peas	Rocket Lolly

Week 2 – Week commencing 7th November, 28th November, 19th December, 9th January, 30th January, 20th February and 13th March

Week 2
	Red Band	Blue Band	Jacket Potato	Sides	Desserts
Monday	Vegetable Bolognese with Spaghetti	Quorn Nuggets with Herby Diced Potatoes	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Green Beans	Fruit Smoothie
Tuesday	Chicken Enchiladas	Macaroni Cheese	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Peas	Marble Sponge and Custard
Wednesday	Roast Gammon with Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding	Roast Quorn Fillet with Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Broccoli	Fruit Jelly
Thursday	Cheese & Tomato Pizza with Potato Wedges	Quorn Sausage with Potato Wedges	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Sweetcorn	Apple Flapjack
Friday	Fish Fingers with Chips	Vegetable Fingers with Chips	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Peas	Toffee Cake and Custard

Week 3 – Week commencing 14th November, 5th December, 16th January, 6th February, 27th February and 20th March

Week 3
	Red Band	Blue Band	Jacket Potato	Sides	Desserts
Monday	Pork Sausage with Chips	Cheese and Tomato Pasta	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Sweetcorn	Frozen Yoghurt
Tuesday	Creamy Chicken Curry with Rice	Cheesy Wrap Stack with Diced Potato	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Peas	Spiced Orange Cake with Custard
Wednesday	Roast Chicken with Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding	Roast Quorn Fillet with Roast Potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Carrots	Fruit Jelly
Thursday	Cheese & Tomato Pizza with Potato Wedges	Vegetable Pasta Bake	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Sweetcorn	Vanilla Shortbread
Friday	Fish Fingers with Chips	Quorn Nuggets with chips	Jacket Potato with Tuna or Cheese	Peas	Apple Sponge

Autumn Winter Menu October 22 – March 2023

Week 1 Allergens

Week 1- Nut rition Report

Week 2 – Allerg ens

Week 2 – Nutriti on Report

Week 3 – Allergens

Week 3 –Nutrition Report

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