It is 20 years since I and the headteacher at the small village school we worked at decided to opt out of the meals service we had at the time because we thought the children deserved a better food experience.
The idea was simple – we wanted to see if we could turn school meals into a whole school approach, with everything cooked from scratch on site, and everyone within the school and wider community having a role in the food and education the children received.
Today, this might not seem like a huge step, but at the time it was a revolutionary change that led to the creation of the Food for Life campaign in 2003 and helped to reshape school meals across the UK.
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