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#schoollunches

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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

What is it with every minor party leader and their dog giving "State of the Nation" speeches? Today it's Seymour... the Minister for School Slop.

In a SST piece - "David Seymour and the food fight he can’t win" - Andrea Vance argues that Seymour was better in opposition than he is in government.

"When questioned, he is rigid and defensive, with the demeanour of a man forced to eat a woke quinoa salad when he ordered a steak."

Touché.

stuff.co.nz/politics/360625194

www.stuff.co.nzStuff
#NZPol#Seymour#SchoolLunches
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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

Failed supplier of David Seymour's school lunch slop, Libelle Group, owes creditors $14m. This suggests they've been in trouble for quite a while.

Which begs the question, did Seymour & Co do any due diligence at all? Or was the decision to award a multi-million dollar government contract to an already collapsing business more of a philosophical one?

odt.co.nz/business/school-lunc

Otago Daily Times Online News · School lunch provider owes more than $14 millionA major provider of the government's troubled free school lunch programme owes more than $14 million to hundreds of creditors after going into...
#NZ#SchoolLunches#NZPol
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Strypey

"As a result, Dunbabin said they're seeing some children come to school on lunch days and not on other days."

#JohnGerritsen, 2025

rnz.co.nz/news/national/544587

I wonder how much Rimmer is spending on truancy officers to in his attempts to increase school attendance? Maybe that money would be better spent on providing school lunches that students actually want to eat?

RNZ · School lunch provider turns to Australia for helpBy John Gerritsen, Checkpoint
#SchoolLunches#truancy
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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

An Invercargill principal reports that Seymour's school lunch fiasco is reaching absurdity. They received 600 macaroni cheese lunch packs from Western Australia yesterday and "...about a third were not eaten."

From Western Australia!

How much longer will Luxon allow Seymour to keep up this charade?

Pay peanuts... get slop.

odt.co.nz/southland/principal-

Otago Daily Times Online News · Principal slams use of Aussie school lunchesA box of school lunches from Western Australia has made its way to the bottom of the country. Students at Invercargill’s Aurora College dined on "3...
#SchoolLunches#NZ
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Strypey

#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link to this story;

rnz.co.nz/news/political/54448

Like the Irex ferry cancellation, this is further proof that whenever the NatACTs try to fix what they claim is "wasteful spending", they end up spending more public money for inferior results.

Unlike Irex, which is difficult to unf%& k, school lunches can be fixed by canning Rimmer's penny-pinching failure, and going back to the local providers it displaced. Fingers crossed.

RNZ · School lunch failures: Original contractors ready to offer alternativesBy John Gerritsen
#NZPolitics#SchoolLunches
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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

A firm contracted by Compass to deliver 125,000 New Zealand school lunches each day has gone into liquidation.

The Libelle Group didn't last long. How far are we into the school year?

If around 350,000 kids are receiving Seymour's slop each day, there's a third of capacity vanished, just like that.

Is it possible that churning out cheap slop at $3 a unit doesn't make financial sense, once Compass have taken their cut?

odt.co.nz/news/national/school

Otago Daily Times Online News · School lunch provider goes into liquidationA major provider of school lunches has been placed into liquidation, in the latest setback to the beleaguered programme.
#NZ#SchoolLunches
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Marsden

"There’s been a bunch of advice from everyday people, many of whom are older and whose kids aren’t kids anymore. This advice tends to go along the lines that children should learn to eat what they’re given, like we used to. If they get hungry enough, they’ll stop being fussy. I’ve been trying to put my finger on exactly what’s wrong with this. "

#FoodCulture #SchoolLunches #NZPol

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The End is Naenae · Jam sandwichesBy Anna McMartin
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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

NZ's ongoing school lunch saga doesn't get any better. These comparison photos show what students at Porirua’s Mana College were served last year compared to the cheap slop Seymour ordered. I know which of the two I'd choose to eat.

Six local people lost their jobs when Seymour awarded the contract to multinational Compass.

stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360595992/

Left: Lunches from Waitoa Catering last year. Right: This year’s butter chicken.
#NZPol#SchoolLunches
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Strypey

"Meaning: the modes of preparation and delivery of the better quality food formerly available had enhanced co-operation between the schools who shared the tasks. Even more importantly, the school lunch programme had enabled local communities to become more involved in the general life of the school, by dint of taking part in the provision of what tended to be locally grown food ingredients within locally prepared meals."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2502/S00

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www.scoop.co.nzOn School Lunches, And The Coalition Government Eating The Young | Scoop NewsThe school lunches saga gets worse by the day. If ACT leader David Seymour can’t/won’t now admit that this brainchild of his is a total disaster...what more evidence pray, does he need? Do children have to die in the school cafeteria before Seymour will
#SchoolLunches
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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

The reports continue to pile up.

* "butter chicken for 11 days out of 17"

* "butter chicken -- day 13"

* "mac ’n’ cheese for four days straight"

* ""The mac and cheese smells so bad"

* "one certified halal meal" between 50 halal students

* jalapeños in curry

* "300 out of 500 lunches were uneaten"

* "nutritionally complete" meals with no fresh fruit, vegetables or even seasoning

Seymour's slop is an unmitigated disaster.

odt.co.nz/news/national/repeti

Otago Daily Times Online News · Repetitive meals becoming issue with school lunchesAfter weeks of late, unsuitable or unsavoury school lunches, two West Auckland schools had their first opportunity to speak to an actual person...
#NZPol#SchoolLunches#Seymour
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Strypey

"It's so f%&king disgusting, because they're championing the cost-cutting made through this revised lunches program. But a lot of those costs being cut are at the expense of the schools. The schools are going to have to spend extra money hiring staff to deliver these lunches, or people are going to have to volunteer to distribute these lunches.

It's so callous."

#Pmax, 2024

1of200.nz/podcast/1200-pwr-e6-

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1/2001/200 PWR E6 - School Lunches — 1/200Pmax gives us the rundown on school lunch policies and realities.
#podcasts#1of200#PWR
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Jo the Neenish Tart

Just got notified my child's school canteen is closing down.

Not sure what's worse - a school with no canteen, or a school with a privatised canteen that ignores the traffic light system, rips off students and puts the money in someone else's back pocket, which is my experience from the school I work in.

School-associated people: does your school have a canteen? Is it P&C run, or private?

#AustralianSchools#SchoolCanteen#HealthyEating
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