 In 2003, Orrey co founded Food for Life, a programme in British schools aimed at encouraging school kitchens to cook meals from scratch as well as teaching children how to cook and grow food.In 2005, Orrey, who had by now left school catering to work as a school meals consultant, published her first cookbook "The Dinner Lady" (Bantam).The same year, Orrey set up a two-day training course for school caterers based at Ashlyns Organic Farm in Essex.