The project came about through the schools food and nutrition class, with the aim of creating a ‘fun and nutritious’ menu that students would want to eat themselves.
Dan Hoggett, catering manager at RJAH and Sian Langford, deputy facilities manager at RJAH recently delivered some lessons to the class to ensure the dishes they designed met the nutritional criteria for the patients.
Students designed dishes including chocolate beetroot cake, quorn spaghetti bolognaise, a risotto dish and a ‘pick your own’ pizza.
Suzanne Marsden, Alice Ward manager, said: We recently started to realise that our children’s menu was in need of an update and some fresh ideas, so when Sian suggested us working alongside the students at Llanfyllin, I welcomed the opportunity.
“Adults think we know what the youngsters want to eat but actually, nobody knows that better than the young people themselves. Their input has been absolutely invaluable and is already making a big difference to our patients, who are enjoying the new items on the menu.”