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are proving so unpopular in some parts of the country there is a warning that some catering services are in danger of collapse. 60 percent of English secondary schools who responded to a BBC survey reported a fall in the number of pupils wanting cooked meals. But our correspondent Collectman Beth is turn to a high school in Ipswich where she has a looking at there and collect. .

Well, this was supposed to be the beginning of this school dinner’s revolution out with fatty foods, like chips and chicken chicken nuggets more things like chili vegetable pasta we can see on the menu here. But now that these healthy meals on sale, many schools caterers are asking exactly how many pupils want to eat them.

Lunch time at Bars Hill school in Coventry and there is a new healthy menu to choose from. This was one of the first secondary schools this term to adopt the government's new guide lines limiting the amount of fried and fatty food. Good news you may think but the canteen here has seen a falling demand. Some children are simply choosing to eat elsewhere .

I go out of school for a meal and snack because I don’t like healthy foods and no chocolate and chips.
I think I rather have /because I can't have anything I want and know that I'll actually eat it.

And it seems to be the same picture in many parts of the country. The BBC spoke to 59 of the 150 local authorities across England. Almost 60 percent of them said the number of children opting for school meals had fallen since the last year. In Scotland too, the latest figure show a small drop in number of the secondary school pupils eating school meals. While in Wales, Denbighshire has become the first local authority to say its whole school meals service is under threat. Some local authorities say the changes will rush into quickly and even blame the so called Jenny Oliver effects. His campaign may have got the government's attention that seems many children remain unconvinced.

I think the governments have got it wrong. It is as much as they did not give caterers enough time to do this. They have not given the manufactures enough time to educate the products needed to comply with the regulations and to actually give enough information to schools and to pupils about why we are doing it.

School food campaigners say there were always going to be teasing problems and parents need to do more to encourage children to swap their chips and fizzy drinks for a healthier diet.

So there are many possible explanations for this downturn. Jenny Oliver who spearheads the campaign says that the government is still on giving enough money they have pledged to 220 million over the next 3 years. But when you take that down to each individual kitchen like this one, and each individual pupil amounts to very little. The other reason is this may have all happened too quickly. Some campaigners say if you and I as parents which swallow the baked beans with the mom beans on the chicken table, we too would meet with some resistance, and that is exactly what's happening in schools. Back to you.