Junk food gets boot as school dishes out healthy meals

A PRIMARY school in Moyross, a disadvantaged part of Limerick, is way ahead of Tony Blair and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in tackling the junk food epidemic in the classroom.

Junk food gets boot as school dishes out healthy meals

It has pioneered a healthy food programme, with the distribution of healthy meal packs each day to children. Corpus Christi primary school’s initiative is now being replicated in other schools around the country.

A Spring Food Festival from April 25 to May 6 will also involve a chef showing children and their parents various ways to cook up a healthy meal.

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