Making the switch from working family tax to universal credit for the self employed scheme, we actually qualified for free school meals for the first time (somehow).
School knocked up a bag for the youngest during the summer and we picked it up out of curiosity more than anything. I'm going back a few months now so I'm bound to forget something.
But bread, butter, cheese, pack of beans, fresh fruit (apples from memory), a few veg (lettuce, cucumber), good sized pack of pasta, bolognese sauce, pack of cuppa soups, fun pack selection of breakfast cereals - and definitely more I've forgotten, might have been some rice pudding etc.
A good £15 quids worth in my mind, but I was even more impressed, it was the week holiday period, but it was a decent 2 meals a day with the added advantage that it helped the kids understand how to portion (or allowed the parents to portion if they didn't get the kids involved) - whether it was beans on toast, cheese on toast, mix up the bolognese with the pasta, or have the pasta with some fruit and veg and so on and so on.
If that photo of Chartwell's attempt at £30 is absolutely genuine, that makes it even more embarrassing. The bag we got was about a foot and half in length, foot deep and two foot high and it was packed.
I could get their offering into my coat pockets and I'd have to carry the bread. Typical Gov bollocks though, farm out to a company looking for profit rather than giving it to an LEA or schools individually and just letting a sensible member of staff handle it so you really get good value for money.
We got vouchers for Xmas, but we didn't need them so didn't use them.
I'm still not actually sure why we got them to begin with, don't know anyone I could gift them to, so at least the cash stays unused hopefully for the next round for those that do.
