As the new school year begins, parents go back to having to remember which days PE kit is needed, nagging the children about homework – and discovering at 8am that they need a long list of ingredients for that day’s cookery lesson.
One ingredient I can guarantee will be needed is cheese – for cheese and potato bake, cheese and onion pasties, cheesy tuna pasta bake… In my daughter’s first year at secondary school, during the seven weeks of her ‘food technology’ class, she took in more than half a kilo of cheese.