The food we serve

At Norse Commercial Services we believe passionately in providing high quality food using quality raw ingredients, working with suppliers we know and trust and ensuring consistent preparation standards.

Our menu is fairly simple; we use meat , fish, potatoes, eggs, fruit, vegetables, flour etc. We are proud that we provide over 4 million school lunches to Norfolk School children each year who enjoy quality food ingredients that make our menu range taste great, In recent years we have worked hard to respond to our customers, and we know you are more interested than ever before in the food your child eats at school.

High quality produce

Food quality begins at the first link in the supply chain. We work with a purchasing consortium which supplies schools with all their requirements, Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation.

They have a highly trained team of professionals who work closely with our supply partners to develop and maintain the highest possible standards of food quality, safety and traceability. All our raw ingredients have to meet exacting specifications in preparation and delivery. In 2007 we spent over £2.75 million on food ensuring we deliver high quality menu choices so that when your child has their next school lunch you can rest assured we are able to trace where it has come from.

Our beef comes from UK reared steers and is sourced from facilities that have been audited by both our suppliers and independent auditors such as European Food Safety Inspection Services (EFSIS).

Our poultry and pork comes from the UK, and is wherever possible Norfolk or Suffolk from approved suppliers who must have a fully integrated supply chain to ensure full control over all aspects of our poultry and pork, including feed and animal welfare. All the poultry and pork used on our menu choices is traceable right back to the farms on which the animals were raised.

Our eggs come from local East Anglian suppliers. We take care to ensure that all our eggs conform to the 'Lion' mark code of practice and suppliers are independently audited.

Our milk comes from fresh dairy milk from the UK and the school milk is now semi-skimmed.

Our potatoes come from either East Anglia or Holland depending on what they are used for. Crops are inspected regularly to ensure a high quality and correct storage.

Our vegetables are a mixture of fresh and frozen and are supplied either from our frozen food supplier, Brakes, or our local greengrocer based in Norwich. Fresh vegetables are sourced from East Anglia wherever possible. Our salad ingredients are sourced locally when in season and at other times from EU countries as they are available.

Our fish, the salmon comes from Alaskan wild salmon and is monitored by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The haddock is sourced from North Atlantic waters and the tuna is Princess tuna, skipjack or yellow fin. In the fishcakes and fingers the fish used is cod from North Atlantic waters and hoki caught in Australian waters. All the fish as with meat has full traceability so that the companies we use can always trace where it came from.

Our drinks meet new government guidelines and the only drinks available are water, skimmed or semi skimmed milk, pure fruit juices, yoghurt or milk drinks with less than 5% sugar. Artificial sweeteners are not used to flavour water, a pure fruit juice is used for this purpose.

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