WHAT do you remember about school dinners from your childhood?
Chips every day or lumpy mashed potato?
Turkey twizzlers or dinosaurs served with smiley faces and spaghetti hoops?
Followed by sponge cake covered in pink and green custard or semolina with a dollop of jam in the middle?
Do you have fond memories of the dinner ladies who would serve you every day in the school canteen?
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Mid Cheshire children get ready to celebrate National School Meals week
It's national school meals week – a whole week dedicated to the canteen food that keeps children well fed at lunchtime while they’re school.
Children at schools across Mid Cheshire enjoy school dinners that are tasty, nutritious and carefully planned each day, appealing to young appetites and hungry tummies.
On the menu for children in Mid Cheshire is chicken korma with rice, naan bread and vegetables, a roast of the day served with roast and mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and gravy, and spaghetti bolognaise with garlic bread.
They all sound delicious!
National school meals, which runs this week, is an opportunity for school caterers to shout about the fantastic work they do every day of the school year.
It celebrates the tireless efforts of school kitchen and canteen staff who continue to serve up great tasting, nutritious food to school children despite increasing pressures amid the cost-of-living crisis.
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Your memories of school dinners in Mid Cheshire in the 1980s and 1990s
To mark national school meals week, we asked you to tell us who your favourite dinner lady was when you were at school.
We’ve featured a selection of the lovely ladies and some of your messages:
Ellemae Johnson Adonna Heakey. You would always give extra milkshake on a Friday if there was enough. It’s definitely you
Hollie Louise Mrs Short at Forest Street Primary School Weaverham
Nicola Tracy Mrs Mills at Darwin Street Primary School. She was lovely
Elizabeth Gowler All of the Witton Church Walk ones were great - Mrs Roberts, Mrs Aston, Mrs Appleton and Mrs Birtwisle among others
Gemma Palin Carol Eaton at Rudheath School. She was mine and my children’s dinner lady – she’s been at the school that long. Lovely, lovely lady
Tracey Stuart-Hodkinson Mrs Crouchley at Victoria Road Primary School. And we shared the same birthday
Vickie Buckley Mrs TB - she was really good with the kids at Cuddington Primary School in the 1980s
Zoe Riley Mrs Riding at Rudheath High School for def
Jo Bulbrook Mrs Whally at Sandiway Primary School in the late 1970s
Elaine Hacking Mrs Garton from Church Walk Primary School
Rachel Levis Mrs Millington Victoria Road School
Lorraine Gibbs Mrs Birtwisle ,Mrs Nutter and the cook Mrs Pymer at Church Walk School
Jase Capper Mrs Mills at Darwin Street. Loved her to bits
Jo Westwood Mrs musker and Mrs Foy at Leftwich Primary School
Sam Robinson My Nan Mrs Robinson at Wincham Primary School in the 1990s
Samantha Goodier Mrs Lever at Darnhall and Sonia Bray at Woodford lodge
Jennifer French My Auntie Betty at Marbury School - now the School House B&B
Karen Johnson Mrs Birtwhistle and Mrs Appleton at Church Walk Primary in the 1980s
Nicky Dean Mrs Capper at Davenham Primary School over 40 years ago
Eileen Astbury Green Mrs Briscoe at Danebridge in the 1950s. A lovely woman
Tracy Hollinshead Mrs Mottershaw at Victoria Road Junior School
Paula McCafferty Mrs Robinson at Comberbach Primary School
Paul Bazley Mr Williams at Hartford High
Peter Drinkwater Mrs Miles at Darwin Street. Belting school dinners
Sharon Bennett Mrs McAvoy at Woodford Lodge. A tiny lady but you wouldn’t mess with her! She was great
Kezza Tench Norma Mills. Bless her. She’s still going strong Darwin Street School
Anna Maker Jill Clarke at Darwin Street in the 1980s and 1990s. Always got the biggest piece of lemon meringue
Julie Andrea Mrs Mottershaw at Victoria Road
Alison Chrimes Mrs Mutton at Hartford Primary School. She would let me stand with her on the playground for the lunch hour!
Sharon Massey Mrs Mills at Darwin Street Primary School
Laura Cliff Mrs Bracegirdle Hartford Manor
Teresa T Whalley Mrs Short at Weaverham Forest Primary and Nursery
James Huggins Mrs Short at Forest St Weaverham
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