Welcome to 2026

Welcome to 2026 School Lunch Collective schools and kura.

Our first lunch service this year is on Monday 26 January.

Over the summer, we have been working hard to improve our menu variety. This year we will offer a standard ten-day menu cycle each term. That means ten different meals over ten days - up from a seven-day menu cycle in terms 3 and 4 last year. Check our standard menu cycle here.

We will also be keeping the menu fresh and varied with "pop-up" meals throughout the term. in our first two weeks we are offering two pop-up meals; on the 26th of January, we are serving Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl with Vegetables and on the 4th of February we are serving Chicken Pesto salad.

As well as our pop-up meals, we are offering some new standard meals including Country Chicken Meatballs with Potatoes, Chicken Burrito Bowl and Creamy Chicken Meatballs on Potatoes.

We have a great line-up of new dietary meals including Mornay Vegetable and Mash, Malay Vegetable and Rice, Cottage Pie and Baked Tofu and Rice. We have also increased the weight of our dietary meals from 240g to 250-260g. In total, there will be ten dietary meals on offer.

New snacks include Crispy Corn and Chickpea, Lentil Puffs and Pea and Chickpea.

If you would like to put up your meal numbers for the start of Term One, please enter your revised meal numbers in the portal or reach out to your Area Manager.