Sheila Dillon

The canteen, where you can get a hot meal served on a real plate, or a takeaway like grab-and-go shop, pre-made sandwiches, jacket potatoes, salads, fruit cakes and biscuits, fruit-based fizzy drinks, or you can bring in a packed lunch.

And that's the choice of most of the girls I'm talking to.

What's in their packed lunches is up to them or their parents, but what's served by the school is regulated by the government school food standards, last updated in 2015 to not very meaningful levels, hence the new attempts at improving quality.

There are different standards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that we'll talk about later.

Here at Penwitham Girls, the food served is all prepared and cooked in the kitchens by a team-run

by Lancashire County Council's catering company.

And the standard, I'm told, is higher than many other secondary schools.

So what do the Year 10s make of what's on offer?

And what about you?

And tell us who you are.

The school is right next to a giant Tesco and I gather it has a lot of custom from this school.

So what difference is it going to make improving food here while you've got that next door?

I mean, you are a healthy looking bunch.

I mean, you could say, what's the problem?

What's the problem?

Jenya's idea to cut puddings to once a week is in fact one of the central proposals in the new school food standards.

But what became clear, strangely, was that the food wasn't the central issue in what and how the girls chose to eat at lunchtime.

And Jess, do you eat in the dining room?

I didn't expect to find that time was the big difference.

So what you seem to be saying is that unless the government really encourages schools to increase the time given over to lunch, they're not going to change eating habits.