Menu planning
Menu ideas
Breakfast Ideas
Drinks
- Milk.
- Water.
- Dilute pure unsweetened fruit juice (one part fruit juice: ten parts water).
Meal choices
- Toasted muffin and hard-boiled egg.
- Cheese wedges with toast.
- Toasted crumpet and banana
- Toast with baked beans.
- Offer a variety of bread products such as: muffin/crumpet/scotch pancake. different types of bread/toast/rolls/bagel/
- Low-sugar cereal e.g. Weetabix, porridge, cornflakes, puffed wheat.
- Porridge/Ready Break with tinned fruit or dried fruit.
- Yoghurts and fruit can also be available.
Main Meal Ideas
- Shepherd's pie with carrots/vegetables in season.
- Tuna and mushroom pasta bake with vegetables/salad.
- Meat/bean casserole with vegetables and potatoes.
- Meat/vegetarian curry with rice and vegetables.
- Meat/bean lasagne with vegetables.
- Chicken fricassee with rice and vegetables.
- Macaroni cheese with carrots and green beans.
- Roast meat, potatoes and seasonal vegetables.
- Pasta with salmon and broccoli.
- Meatballs with tomato sauce, pasta and salad.
- Tuna, red pepper and sweetcorn risotto.
- Fish pie with sweetcorn and peas.
- Stir-fried chicken with vegetables and noodles.
- Mexican bean tortilla wraps with vegetable rice.
- Caribbean chicken with rice and seasonal vegetables.
- Toad in the hole with boiled potatoes and green vegetables.
- Vegetable quiche with salad/vegetables and bread/potato wedges.
- Spaghetti bolognaise (beef or vegetarian) with vegetables/salad.
Light Meal Ideas
Sandwiches
Sandwiches/rolls (try different types of bread e.g. wholemeal, white, pitta bread, bagels, wraps, crumpets):
- Meat: chicken, ham.
- Grated cheese.
- Cream cheese.
- Hard-boiled egg and cress.
- Fish: tuna, salmon.
- Vegetarian spread.
Toast with:
- Baked beans.
- 'Cheesy' beans.
- Pilchards/sardines.
- Cheese and tomato.
- Scrambled egg.
Jacket potatoes with:
- Tuna and sweetcorn.
- Bolognaise (beef or vegetarian).
- Curry.
- Cheese.
- Baked beans.
Other ideas:
- Macaroni cheese.
- Cheese scone and vegetable sticks.
- Homemade pizza pieces and vegetable sticks.
- Lentil and vegetable soup with pitta bread strips/rolls.
- Cheese omelette and crusty bread with chopped cherry tomatoes.
- Vegetable quiche with salad/vegetables and bread/potato wedges.
- Bread sticks and vegetable sticks with dips e.g. cream cheese.
Dessert Ideas
- Fresh fruit platter e.g. grapes, bananas, satsumas, apples slices.
- Stewed fruit and custard/plain yoghurt/ice-cream.
- Plain sponge with stewed fruit and custard.
- Fruit pieces in jelly with plain yoghurt/ice-cream.
- Milk pudding with fruit pieces/purée.
- Fruit crumble and custard/ice-cream.
- Yoghurt or fromage frais.
- Bread and butter pudding.
- Egg custard.
- Banana custard.
- Milk jelly.
- Malt loaf.
- Banana bread.
- Fruit scone.
- Cheese and biscuits with grapes.
- Cakes containing dried fruits.
- Baked apple with dates topped with yoghurt.
