In the meantime, in Blagoveshchensk, a 10-day diet for younger students was presented. Funding for free meals has been increased from 25 rubles per person to 63 rubles in the south of the region and to 73 in the north. Therefore, the range of dishes will be diversified with products from meat, poultry, fish, dairy industries, as well as eggs, fresh vegetables, seaweed salad (for the prevention of iodine deficiency). The diet, developed by the technologists of the city school feeding complex, will be used in 20 schools of the regional center for more than 12 thousand students.
- A hot meal includes one hot dish consisting of a side dish and a main dish, or only the main one plus a hot drink, - said the head of the school food factory Maxim Khimenko. - On the initiative of parents, the diet can be adjusted (for example, there have already been proposals to correct the menu taking into account the nutrition of children with allergies, this is decided individually. - Ed.). So, we excluded milk porridge, which was in the last academic year, - children are fed "milk" at home before classes. There were several reports about the presence of hodgepodge and sausages on the menu. So, there are no cabbage products on the menu at all, and dishes with sausage (boiled - not fried) are served to schoolchildren only two or three times in 10 days.
The plant is ready to organize the same ration of dishes for high school students. Children will be able to pay for their breakfast or lunch with a personal identification card through the Pioneer school system.
“When organizing school meals, we will also support our Amur producers, because products that are grown and produced in the region will be purchased,” said Oleg Imameev, Mayor of Blagoveshchensk.
By the way, the school with. Berezovka, Ivanovo district, for example, is notable for the fact that three dishes are served on the table for children due to vegetables grown on their own land.
“Analyzing the first results of the organization of hot meals, what can we say: the new equipment was installed in a few hours - the children's meals were not interrupted,” commented the deputy chairman of the regional government, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Svetlana Yakovleva. - Communication with parents is established, schools and their founders are interested in meeting the nutritional needs of children and in maintaining their health. Although in one of the schools, for example, buns with sausages were given to children as baked goods. Since we are still talking about healthy eating, I recommend replacing the sausage filling with a fruit or curd filling. A positive example is the presence of a parental control representative in one of the lyceums in the morning when organizing breakfast.
School canteens, including unscheduled ones, will be checked not only in the regional center, but also in the districts. Tel. food hotline 8 (4162) 226-516.
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- I think everything about the 10-day menu is correct: there are non-recurring (which is important) hot dishes, and iodized salt, which is much more useful than any other. All calculations are according to the norms. The main thing is that now the chefs cook deliciously from the presented products - and this is important for children, - says nutritionist Alina Bozhko. - I emphasize that children MUST eat at school. Starving at school, children will eat almost the entire food ration at home, and this is 50-70% of the diet. As a result, the child gets fat. Children came to me, whom their parents feed almost by force in the morning. Many of them have not yet woken up, they have no appetite. Therefore, ideally, children should be fed breakfast and lunch at school, and younger children only with breakfast. And it is advisable that the food was prepared at the school catering unit by cooks, and not brought from somewhere. No vending machines with sweets and pantries. Food culture is also important: for many children, school food may turn out to be bland, due to the fact that the children are used to eating more salt. And that's bad. It is important for parents to develop a culture of proper nutrition in the family so that later none of its members will get sick. In the morning, children should eat slow carbohydrates: porridge, milk soup, mashed potatoes, vegetable slices or a piece of fish. And no baking! For lunch, of course, give the first, second and third.