Our school engages a caterer to provide hot lunch for the children. It also boasts of organic, nutritious meals prepared by cook especially trained in cooking for children.
Until last month we all loved the food! I found it exciting to discover the wide variety of dishes for children and loved to taste most of the vegetarian ones.
Boiled rice, vegetable rice, baked potato in jackets, bread with vegetable curry with plenty of carrots, zucchini, pumpkin, scallions, potatoes and tomatoes, special carrot, spinach, peas pizza, pasta with tomato sauce, tortellini, meat 2-3 times a week, soups, fish, spring rolls, sesame/ tofu/ carrot sausages and a whole array of other dishes which I never knew existed. The caterer would bring in prepared food in the morning and we would place them in food heaters and ovens to keep them deliciously hot till the time for lunch.
That was all only until last month...!
Stf suddenly discovered that she could save a little amount of money by replacing this caterer with a cheap one - well, the cheapest one in town.
So now we have a cheap caterer who needs to be put behind bars for catering a damn damn damn bad food. His food not only tastes horrible, but also looks and smells horrible! The children look at the food disconcertingly, try a spoon or two and then push their plates away in rejection. For the whole last month our children haven't eaten lunch properly which is such a shame - crime really, since they pay 90 Euros a month for food, and also because most of them stay the whole day from morning to evening.
Unlike the last caterer, this one brings lunch right at the lunch time. Once he brought pasta which was not buttered so the whole penne pasta got firmly glued into large chunks and we had to cut them off with knives in order to serve. Like Stf he was also saving money by not using butter!
We complained and the next time he brought penne pasta that was swimming in oil! Yes, you read right; swimming in oil! The sight of so much oil made me sick in my stomach and I was ready to throw up. It really looked horrible! We carefully served avoiding oil but still there was so much oil stuck and dripping that children's plate was full of icky oily stuff which became worse when coupled with the oily tomato sauce.
His pizza and one another dish which was vegetables and cheese got rock hard and stuck together; a large part of it couldn't even be cut with a knife, forget about chewing.
Once he brought rice pudding which is rice cooked in sweet milk. It was burnt from sides and bottom. No child ate it. Mk tasted it and said: "What a shame! It is full of badly burnt taste.!"
Yesterday he brought something that looked disgusting. Something off white and liquidy like gel with some odd looking pieces. We discovered it was just plain flour cooked in milk without sugar and the pieces were huge lumps and chunks of undissolved flour and what's worse, it was under cooked and smelt bad enough to make you want to vomit. It had to be eaten with apple sauce.
I wonder what sort of a caterer is this who cannot cook. I mean how can you be in cooking business if you cannot cook? And of course the bigger wonder is he is happily employed by none other than one of the largest kindergarten in the town and he is producing unhealthy, unsavoury torturous food which should be stopped ASAP.
It is so shameful that Stf is increasing the school's income and decreasing the quality on not one, two but on all fronts including food!
She has increased the admission fee 4 times since last year. Earlier parents had to pay about 200 Euros for admission, then it was raised to 300 Euros, then to 400 Euros, then 500 Euros, and now finally it is 650 Euros!
There are more children in this school then most other kindergartens and pre schools in this city can dream of. We are bursting our seams. The classrooms are cluttered full of children. There are not enough chairs and tables to seat them all or beds to sleep on. The toilets get full, the dustbins fill up before half a day is gone. A class or a group is no more like a class or a group anymore, just a wild herd of sheep and goats. The student teacher ratio has long gone out of control. The teachers are only shouting at the children the whole time, changing diapers and serving food. All teaching has got tossed aside. Where is the time to teach? New children keep filtering in like a swarm of bees. They are new so they cry and wet and don't understand a whole lot of things. Their assimilation disturbs the whole teaching process.
and the worst sufferers are the children, the teachers and the parents.
She is doing good business but a bad service...
Until last month we all loved the food! I found it exciting to discover the wide variety of dishes for children and loved to taste most of the vegetarian ones.
Boiled rice, vegetable rice, baked potato in jackets, bread with vegetable curry with plenty of carrots, zucchini, pumpkin, scallions, potatoes and tomatoes, special carrot, spinach, peas pizza, pasta with tomato sauce, tortellini, meat 2-3 times a week, soups, fish, spring rolls, sesame/ tofu/ carrot sausages and a whole array of other dishes which I never knew existed. The caterer would bring in prepared food in the morning and we would place them in food heaters and ovens to keep them deliciously hot till the time for lunch.
That was all only until last month...!
Stf suddenly discovered that she could save a little amount of money by replacing this caterer with a cheap one - well, the cheapest one in town.
So now we have a cheap caterer who needs to be put behind bars for catering a damn damn damn bad food. His food not only tastes horrible, but also looks and smells horrible! The children look at the food disconcertingly, try a spoon or two and then push their plates away in rejection. For the whole last month our children haven't eaten lunch properly which is such a shame - crime really, since they pay 90 Euros a month for food, and also because most of them stay the whole day from morning to evening.
Unlike the last caterer, this one brings lunch right at the lunch time. Once he brought pasta which was not buttered so the whole penne pasta got firmly glued into large chunks and we had to cut them off with knives in order to serve. Like Stf he was also saving money by not using butter!
We complained and the next time he brought penne pasta that was swimming in oil! Yes, you read right; swimming in oil! The sight of so much oil made me sick in my stomach and I was ready to throw up. It really looked horrible! We carefully served avoiding oil but still there was so much oil stuck and dripping that children's plate was full of icky oily stuff which became worse when coupled with the oily tomato sauce.
His pizza and one another dish which was vegetables and cheese got rock hard and stuck together; a large part of it couldn't even be cut with a knife, forget about chewing.
Once he brought rice pudding which is rice cooked in sweet milk. It was burnt from sides and bottom. No child ate it. Mk tasted it and said: "What a shame! It is full of badly burnt taste.!"
Yesterday he brought something that looked disgusting. Something off white and liquidy like gel with some odd looking pieces. We discovered it was just plain flour cooked in milk without sugar and the pieces were huge lumps and chunks of undissolved flour and what's worse, it was under cooked and smelt bad enough to make you want to vomit. It had to be eaten with apple sauce.
I wonder what sort of a caterer is this who cannot cook. I mean how can you be in cooking business if you cannot cook? And of course the bigger wonder is he is happily employed by none other than one of the largest kindergarten in the town and he is producing unhealthy, unsavoury torturous food which should be stopped ASAP.
It is so shameful that Stf is increasing the school's income and decreasing the quality on not one, two but on all fronts including food!
She has increased the admission fee 4 times since last year. Earlier parents had to pay about 200 Euros for admission, then it was raised to 300 Euros, then to 400 Euros, then 500 Euros, and now finally it is 650 Euros!
There are more children in this school then most other kindergartens and pre schools in this city can dream of. We are bursting our seams. The classrooms are cluttered full of children. There are not enough chairs and tables to seat them all or beds to sleep on. The toilets get full, the dustbins fill up before half a day is gone. A class or a group is no more like a class or a group anymore, just a wild herd of sheep and goats. The student teacher ratio has long gone out of control. The teachers are only shouting at the children the whole time, changing diapers and serving food. All teaching has got tossed aside. Where is the time to teach? New children keep filtering in like a swarm of bees. They are new so they cry and wet and don't understand a whole lot of things. Their assimilation disturbs the whole teaching process.
and the worst sufferers are the children, the teachers and the parents.
She is doing good business but a bad service...
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