Schools take intelligent approach with healthy eating initiative

SECONDARY schools can now provide students with a healthy eating alternative to the chipper or local shop at lunchtime.

A new initiative called IQ - Intelligent Cuisine - is ensuring that schools that do not have full catering facilities or designated lunch rooms can provide students with a hot breakfast and a range of hot and cold nutritious options for lunch.

Campbell Catering, which launched the healthy eating programme in Templeogue College, Dublin, yesterday, have described it as an "intelligent" solution to unhealthy eating habits in secondary schools.