Food Explorers

Every Food Explorer menu is made up of tasty dishes packed full of nutrients, with each meal offering Food Explorers at least 3 of their 5 a day.

Our theme days offer lots of new flavours to explore and include competitions for pupils to win Food Explorer prizes.

Most of our schools will offer three choices of a Food Explorer hot main meal, including a vegetarian or vegan option, a selection of pasta pots, jacket potatoes or a sandwich.

Every Food Explorer is offered vegetables, side salad, bread and drinking water with their main meal. For dessert, fresh fruit and yoghurt is offered as an alternative to the homemade dessert of the day.

Our menus...

Our menus are on a three-week cycle and change every six months; after the Easter holidays to our Spring/Summer menu and after October half-term to our Autumn/Winter menu.

Click on the links below for our Autumn / Winter Food Explorer menus

Autumn Winter 2024 - Week 1
Autumn Winter 2024 - Week 2
Autumn Winter 2024 - Week 3

Autumn Winter 2024 - Poster

Theme Days:

To coincide with our menu, monthly Food Explorer theme days promotions are organised.

The special theme days are developed to correspond with the Food Explorer brand or national events. The promtions aim to spark children's curiosity and encourage conversations, whilst providing enjoyment for pupils of all ages.

Autumn Winter Theme Day Promotions

National School Meals Week
11th - 15th November
Join us as we celebrate everything great about our school meals

Christmas Party Menu
Get in to the festive sprit with our Christmas Party, this year with a Pantomine theme!

Christmas Dinner Poster
Join us for our Traditional Christmas Dinner with all of the trimmings

If music be the food of love
14th February
Join us as we explore the playwrite William Shakespeare

World Book Day Poster
6th March
Bring your favourite book to school and discuss what you like about the story with your fellow pupuls

Journey Around the World
16th January
Join us as we travel across the World to explore new meals

News

Autumn Winter Digital Menu Launched

We are pleased to announce our fully digital menu for the Autumn & Winter Season 2024 / 2025 is now live and available to download on our website.

National School Meals Week 2024

As we start the new school year, we are inviting all schools supplied by Derbyshire Catering Service to join our National School Meals Week Celebration.

The week aims to highlight the importance of a well-balanced school meal, to support a child with their mental wellbeing, as well as their physical and academic growth.

We have a brilliant line up of guests visiting schools, including local MP’s and council directors. The guests are invited to join pupils within a school for a meal, while meeting with the catering team to understand some of the challenges the industry faces.

World Book Day 2024

Derbyshire Catering Service were pleased to join the World Book day celebrations earlier this year, it was brilliant to see so many of the teams taking part and the childrens feedback has been excellent, with the pupils enjoying a selection of new products offered during the celebration.

We look forward to seeing how the kitchen teams "Kick off a Summer of Sports" with our May theme day.

Make sure to visit our website for more information and the photographs.