As the UK's leading supplier of products, brands and services, Premier Foods are committed to school meals, working in conjunction with LACA. We are dedicated to providing support for the education sector, working in partnership with schools to help make school meals healthy and appealing. We also understand the pressures that schools are under to deliver meals that are cost-effective and meet the nutritional guidelines.

Premier Foods Foodservice Product Range

Premier Foods has an extensive portfolio of school specific products, reformulated to be nutritionally balanced and combined to create healthy meal solutions children love. Our leading British brands McDougalls, Quorn, Angel Delight, Birds, Homepride, Sharwoods, Bisto and Branston are favourites with both cooks and kids.

Premier Foods Home Economist Team

We're proud to offer a unique and invaluable service for the education sector, led by our specialist team of trained Home Economists. Our passionate and dedicated team with significant experience in catering in education is bursting with ideas and keen to offer practical advice, support and guidance in many ways. This includes:

• Recipe Solutions - devising new recipe ideas within a budget
• Nutritional Analysis - helping to make it easier to provide healthier school meals
• Training - educating school cooks with the skills they need to make food fun, healthy and cost-effective
• Demonstrations - for cooks, supervisors and managers for new products and recipes
• Healthy Eating Talks - practical talks and demonstrations to help get the message through
• Event Support - help with local food festivals, opening of new facility or school parent's evening
• Theme Days - offering fun and practical advice on how to run a theme day
• Try Before You Buy - demonstrate how tasty healthier options can be
• Tailored Sessions - opportunity to have specific sessions to meet your schools needs

Premier Foods also run a series of Premier Culinary Academies for Schools during the Autumn which are relaxed, interactive sessions offering guidance, training and demonstrations to school unit managers. These one-day sessions are carefully designed to offer fun and practical advice to increase confidence around product knowledge and recipe useage.

Our responsibilities

Premier Foods is also committed to managing our business with due consideration to the efficient use of natural resources and in a socially responsible manner.

Our Corporate Responsibility strategy is based on ‘doing the right thing' focussing on a number of key areas including environmental management, packaging reduction, ethical trading through to community involvement.

So, as a supplier to the education sector, we are not only committed to getting kids enjoying healthy, appealing and cost effective meals, we are also committed to their environmental future.