TWO mothers have started a fast-food delivery service to schoolchildren in response to the healthy dinner campaign by the chef Jamie Oliver.

Julie Critchlow and Sam Walker say that children don’t want to eat the “overpriced, low-fat rubbish” offered to them at school. Instead, they are making daily deliveries of sandwiches, fish and chips, pies, burgers and fizzy drinks. Their service has become so popular that they now use an old supermarket trolley to make deliveries to up to 60 children each day at Rawmarsh Comprehensive School in Rotherham.

Ms Walker, 41, whose son attends the school, said: “This is all down to Jamie Oliver. I just don’t like what he stands for. He is forcing our kids to become more picky about their food. He can feed whatever he wants to his kids but he should realise that other parents think differently.” The women take orders during morning break, then return with the food at lunchtime.

Ms Critchlow, 43, said: “We don’t make a penny on it, we just want to make sure the kids are properly fed.”

John Lambert, the head teacher, said: “All the freshly prepared food served by the school now complies with the Government’s guidelines. I can’t imagine why the children want to go elsewhere.”

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