The Akshaya Patra Foundation has been serving up hot vegetarian meals to children in London from its new kitchen in Watford during half term.
The zero waste and self-sustaining kitchen model was originally created in India, providing nutritious lunches from 52 kitchens to more than 1.8 million children in over 19,000 state-run schools every school day.
It will now cook two meal cycles a day in England - one for children during the holidays (2,000 meals) and one for those living in food poverty (3,000 meals) across London and Watford. When operating at full capacity the kitchen can produce 5,000 child meals per day and 4,000 meals for those living in food poverty, the foundation says.
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