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Make Milk Available

Published 23 November 11

Providing milk as one of your healthy drinks options within your school couldn't be easier. Milk is packed with many essential vitamins and minerals that a developing body needs and there are a variety of ways in which you can easily introduce and provide milk within your school.

Here are a range of ideas that could assist you with the decision making process - for additional information please contact us.

Providing milk in cartons at mid morning break can help aid concentration, especially for those children who have missed breakfast. Why not introduce milk and fruit together - this will provide an excellent nutritionally balanced snack:

Milk and cereal are a perfect partnership to provide children with a great start to the day, or you could choose to introduce the breakfast smoothie as shown in the recipe ideas section.

Vending machines are an ideal opportunity to introduce milk cartons. There are a number of dairy companies now providing flavoured milks which have been reformulated to meet the Food in Schools and Voluntary Code of Practice (VCOP) for School Drinks. Visit www.dairyuk.org to find out which suppliers are in your area and the Schools Food Trust have a list of suppliers that support the VCOP visit www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk.