Struggling parents are being given a helping hand thanks to the Tesco Fruit & Veg for Schools initiative. With money tight and the cost-of-living crisis still biting, many families are finding it hard to juggle household financial commitments and fuel their children with healthy, nutritious food. At Saint Eithne’s Primary School in Derry, Northern Ireland, the scheme has come at just the right time.
It is one of 400 schools selected to join a first-of-its-kind scheme that will see 140,000 primary and secondary kids across Britain eat at least one piece of fresh fruit or veg a day. Principal Terence McDowell said: “Receiving fruit and vegetables from Tesco will make a huge difference to what we offer our children. “It could not come at a better time as we see on a daily basis the financial burden that parents continue to struggle with as a result of the cost of living crisis.
This will help to relieve the financial burden of having to provide a healthy snack for their child. “By providing a wide range of alternative healthy snacks to our children we hope to broaden their experiences when it comes to choosing fruit or vegetables that they can snack on each day at break time. We hope to extend this further by providing healthy snacks to the children at our after school clubs.
” Britain's biggest retailer teamed up with sustainability charity Groundwork and the British Nutrition Foundation to identify schools with the largest percentage of students eligible for free scho.
