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Phil Palfrey: Kaitao Intermediate Principal on the school lunch programme · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Seymour's school lunch program back in the firing line this morning,
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  Speaker 1: Auditor General seize up to twenty thousand meals a day
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  Speaker 1: being returned uneaten. Half of those delivered didn't meet the
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  Speaker 1: ministry's nutrition standards. That was up to December last year.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Seymour. When you put more vegetables than it reaches
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  Speaker 1: the standard and fewer children want to eat them, you're
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  Speaker 1: damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you do? Providers say, By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that term four, the number was actually seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 1: We're meeting the nutritional standards. Phil Palfree, the Kaytal Intermediate
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  Speaker 1: School principal, with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Get a Phil, Good morning, Ryan, how are you very well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? So at your school? Do you have this
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  Speaker 1: program at your school? And how many kids? How many
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  Speaker 1: of the meals go uneaten? Where you are.
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  Speaker 2: Are probably around about fifty percent, from forty to fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent go and eat him?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot? Now, does that mean forty to fifty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the kids aren't hungry?
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  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't mean that.
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  Speaker 1: They eat food.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it sounds it sounds simple, but it's the fact
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  Speaker 2: that it looks unempathizing, and it is unepetizing. And there's
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they're from from the historical thing. They've
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  Speaker 2: seen it. You know, they might have tried it first
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  Speaker 2: couple of times and just the look of it, and
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  Speaker 2: they say no, they said no, no, And it's really
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  Speaker 2: a real tragedy because I know they're hungry some of them.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them are the resort of that eating stuff
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  Speaker 2: from the local shop on the way to school, which
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  Speaker 2: is really unhealthy and just a very bad way to
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  Speaker 2: start the day.
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  Speaker 1: Where do they get the money from for that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point. There's only a few that do it,
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  Speaker 2: but it just looks terrible and it's very unhealthy. But
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  Speaker 2: we do have fruit in schools, which we're really lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have, and the kids, a lot of kids eat
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  Speaker 2: that fresh fruit. They can hit that all day long.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really interested in this because you've said that
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  Speaker 1: it is so unappetizing, and yet half the kids are
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  Speaker 1: eating it. So what's the difference between these two kids.
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  Speaker 1: You've got one and two. One of them say looks
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  Speaker 1: at it and says, that's unadvertising, I'm not eating it,
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  Speaker 1: and the other one says, presumably that equally it looks unappetizing,
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  Speaker 1: but I am eating it, and to me, that says
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  Speaker 1: one is hungry than the other. Frankly, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: That's not true. I have tried them myself, and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes there are some menus through the week
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  Speaker 2: that are that are okay, and I've even those, but
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  Speaker 2: I think, oh, it's not too.
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  Speaker 1: Badad one give us an example.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 2: look at them the ones. I do know that the
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  Speaker 2: ones that i've some of the ones I've eaten are
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  Speaker 2: absolutely horrible, But there are some that I think the
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  Speaker 2: kids should actually try. But I just feel it's that
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  Speaker 2: historical thing. All I know is that the previous model
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  Speaker 2: that we had the kids ate it, there was very
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  Speaker 2: little waste. And the prior to this model coming in
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  Speaker 2: where large companies started preparing and making the food and
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  Speaker 2: sending it to us. He has not been successful at
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  Speaker 2: all for us. But I know that for some schools
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  Speaker 2: and some supplies that works very well. Here in there
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  Speaker 2: is one company that supplies across to the primary schools
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  Speaker 2: for the contributing primary schools, and their food is fine.
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  Speaker 1: And what about over this whole period, So with the
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  Speaker 1: old system with the nude news system. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: any material change in academic performance at your school?
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  Speaker 2: And no, not really no, right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, appreciate your time this morning, Phil Palfrey, Kaitaile, Intermediate
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