Blairgowrie HS meals branded an ‘absolute ‘disgrace’.

More complaints about standard of meals at high school

Parents at Blairgowrie High School have continued to raise concerns over the standard of food being served to their children after a mum complained about a turkey burger given to her daughter.

Sharon Morgan shared a picture of the offending burger to social media with the caption “would any of you eat it?”

It prompted meal providers Tayside Contracts to apologise for the food served to the Perthshire pupil, saying they “fell short “of their high standards.

However, fellow parent Debbie Walsh has now shown The Courier other meals being served to children at the school where her daughter attends S1, saying the turkey burger was not an isolated incident.

Debbie said: “My daughter has been bringing home pictures of the food she’s been buying and I’ve been thinking ‘are you kidding’?

“When I was a pupil at the high school the lunches used to be very good.

“When we were at the school the cooks used to be able to make up homemade macaroni and things but now they have to use whatever Perth and Kinross Council gives them.

“I think it’s an absolute disgrace – it’s a lot of items.

“They give kids from P1 to P3 free school meals because some can’t get a proper meal at home.”

SNP councillor Dave Doogan said that Tayside Contracts needed to take on board the complaints and reiterated his belief that rolling out the frozen school meal plans would do nothing to benefit the dinners being served to pupils in Perth and Kinross.

He said: “I know for a fact that our Tayside Contacts kitchen staff here in Perth and Kinross work very hard within challenging parameters of cost and regulation to provide pupils with tasty healthy meals.”

Carol Haxton, Tayside Contracts’ facilities business manager, said: “Tayside Contracts produces over six million high quality school meals per year and our quality management systems and the skill levels of our cooks stand comparison with the very best.

“However, on this occasion we clearly fell short of these high standards, for which we are extremely sorry.”

On this occasion we clearly fell short of our high standards. CAROL HAXTON, TAYSIDE CONTRACTS