Sustainable school meals - a taste of things to come?

Madeleine Cuff
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Catering services giant Sodexo is trialling a new range of sustainable meals in schools across the UK - but will 'green eating' ever really take off?

What do you remember about school dinners? Instant mash? Potato smileys? Turkey dinosaurs? One thing you almost certainly won't remember is being offered a 'low-carbon' meal. But this is 2015, and school...

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