Newsletter Welcome to the first edition of the Club Joules newsletter for parents. It will provide you with an update to all things new in the Club Joules world. Should you have any feedback then please do not hesitate to email us at: enquiries.clubjoules.uk@sodexo.com

Did you know? My mate bread comes from down the road in Dagenham

I’m Red Tractor certified

All our baked desserts are homemade!

We always try to use fresh and seasonal fruit and veg

All our milk comes from ‘Up West’ (London that is!)

All our good work helped us get this!

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Food for Life

All of Sodexo primary school meals meet the prestigious bronze Food For Life Catering Mark. But what does that mean? The Catering Mark is a unique scheme which recognises caterers who serve fresh food that is free from controversial additives and better for animal welfare. More and more, people want to know where their food comes from and how it was produced. The Food for Life Catering Mark offers a guarantee that fresh food you can trust is always on the menu.

Sodexo is committed to providing freshly prepared, sustainable and healthy menus, with produce from farms that satisfy UK welfare standards. Caterers with the bronze catering mark serve seasonal meals which are freshly prepared and free from undesirable additives including MSG, tartrazine and aspartame. No GM ingredients are used and all eggs are from cage-free hens.

New Menu - April

Some of the exciting new dishes that will feature on the menu from April include:

•  Italian beef with tagliatelle

•  Somerset honeyed pork stew

•  Quorn and vegetable tikka masala

•  Turkey and roast vegetable pitta

•  Jerk style chicken

•  Cheese and tomato pinwheels

•  Hot gammon and apple sauce baguette

•  Shortbread cookie and milk

•  Carrot and orange cake

•  Eves pudding

LEAF

Sodexo joined LEAF as a corporate member, the first of its kind from the food and facilities management industry.

LEAF is at the forefront of sustainable agriculture and Sodexo is committed to setting the standards for sustainable business practices. This is an excellent partnership that will further enhance the work LEAF does across the supply chain.

Set up in 1991, LEAF promotes environmentally responsible farming and supports farmers to produce good food, with care and to high environmental standards, identified on pack by the LEAF Marque logo. It has corporate members across the food chain from retailers to food manufacturers.

Why not take a visit to a farm near you! Visit the LEAF website today to plan your visit: www.leafuk.org

What’s new?

Jubilee fun and Independence Day  With a busy summer ahead we have some fun theme day lunches planned at the schools we serve.

We will be having a street party to celebrate the Jubilee and some good old fashioned American hot dogs on the 4th of July!

Look out for our other theme days advertised around the school.

Summer Sweet Treat Specials

Over the next few months we will be serving some of your children’s’ favourites but with a twist:

Beetroot Brownie being one of them. Why not bake it at home and let us know what you think.

Makes 15 - 20 Preparation and cooking times:

Prep 15 minutes

Cook 30 minutes

Easy

Method

• Line a 9” square cake tin. Steam beetroot until tender, cool and peel, if using tinned beetroot wash and drain thoroughly.

• Puree beetroot in a blender until smooth, you need 125g of puree.

• Whisk together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

• Add vanilla, whisk in egg whites one at a time until all combined and mixture is smooth.

• Stir in the beetroot puree until blended.

• Mix together flour, cocoa and coffee powder, fold in beetroot mixture.

• Stir in chocolate chips. • Place mixture in the cake tin and cook in a medium oven until cooked

approximately 30minutes.

• Cool and cut into portions.

Ingredients

• Beetroot 2 large fresh or 14oz canned

• Unsalted Butter 100g

• Caster sugar 225g

• Vanilla Extract 1tspn

• Egg Whites 4ea

• Plain Flour 115g

• Cocoa Powder 25g

• Instant Coffee 15g

• Chocolate Chips 50g