Sheila Dillon

Jenya chose the all-day breakfast, something that could be served under the new school food standards, but that sausage...

from Booth's, it said on the menu, the Northwest supermarket chain, would be the one and only portion of processed meat for the week.

Outside, the playground is very crowded, with girls eating their lunches at picnic tables, some with takeaway boxes from the Grab and Go Cafe, others with food they've brought from home.

When I first came in Alison I asked you if you ate lunch in the dining room but like the girls you have, it's curtailed for you.

I mean, it just seems like almost like this has to be a military operation, Alison.

I mean, to feed 800 people in 50 minutes, like, oh, my God, how do you do that?

Alison Katanag.

In Scotland and Wales, school food rules have already been tightened.

Wales now offers free school meals to all primary pupils.

And from October, the new Healthy Eating Regulations...

require schools to serve more vegetables of more variety with less that's fried and sugary.

In Scotland, regulations introduced around five years ago are similar.

In Northern Ireland, however, the standards haven't been updated since 2008.

A few weeks ago in Belfast, I met Susie Lee, a chartered accountant, chef, mother and cookbook author who's been turned into a campaigner by her children's descriptions of the food at their local primary school.

Susie shared her worries with a friend, also a parent of young children, consultant paediatrician Dr Jonathan Henderson.

who was seeing a lot of things that worried him in his work.

Of course, not all the children's symptoms are diet-related.

But Jonathan is seeing more and more children with severe medical conditions related to the food they eat.

He is also seeing more neurodivergent children who struggle to eat certain textures and flavors.

In fact,