A surprising request. Although the meals served in school canteens are regularly criticized by disgruntled parents, the LFI municipal councilor for Toulouse in Haute-Garonne, Agathe Roby, asked the Toulouse city council that meals in nursery schools be serve on the City Council. A request intended to note the quantity and quality of meals served.
“To demonstrate to all elected officials that the dining room offers quality food, as you say, I hereby ask that we eat the same as children, of course with the amounts for adults, during the next municipal councils,” he said. . he suggests in a letter sent to two deputies of the Toulouse city council.
“Thus, each adviser will be able to sneak into the school canteens and into the place of the schoolchildren,” he hopes.
Comparative photos posted on Twitter
For just over two weeks, the left-wing councilor has been sharing photos on her Twitter account. We see the dishes served to children from Toulouse nursery schools, along with those who enjoy the city’s elected officials in their own canteen.
Agathe Roby explains to the office having collected the photos of technical agents, entertainers or even dining room staff.
“While Jean-Jacques Bolzan (the deputy mayor in charge of eating well) gorges himself, kindergartens today do not even have starchy foods and a ridiculous dish,” he denounces in the caption of a photo showing carrots and a chicken thigh, apparently. he served in a school.
In another post, Agathe Roby denounces a “kindergarten dish that speaks for itself.” We see a small pancake, accompanied by a portion of mashed potato. In another, just a few lettuce leaves.
“A problem of quality and quantity”
For the elected LFI, “there is a problem of quality and quantity. The price of the canteen has not gone up, but it seems that the rations have gone down,” he laments to France 3.
“What we see are unappealing dishes, often without starch, and the children withdraw into the bread. As a result, they don’t always eat and that doesn’t solve the waste problem,” she says.
To fight waste and offer better quality food, Toulouse canteens have reduced portions from 450 to 350 g in kindergarten canteens since the start of the 2021 school year. Without a priori relation to current inflation, Thus.
The City Council claims to “work with a dietician”
With the request that this symbolic action be launched, the municipal councilor hopes to raise awareness throughout the city.
“I want the people of Toulouse to realize what the children eat in the canteen,” he stresses.
Specifically, the elected official makes several proposals to improve school canteens: “the fitting out of a vegetable room in the central kitchen”, as well as the construction of “spaces for minimal cooking in schools”.
Jean-Jacques Bolzan responded to the criticism of the elected opposition member, assuring the quality of the meals served to the young Toulouse. He reminds Actu Toulouse in passing that the composition of the menus is determined by a commission in which parents can participate.
“We work with a dietitian and if the kids want more, there’s always something,” she says.
Last March, parents at a Toulouse school denounced the choice imposed on children between a starter or a dessert.
Source: BFM TV
