Feeding children in school

It's good if the children's meals in the school are organized, and they can get a hot breakfast and lunch in the dining room. The interval between meals should not exceed 3-4 hours. Best if the first light breakfast is a childhe will eat at home, in the school canteen he will be fed a second breakfast and lunch, and at home after school he will have lunch and dinner. If a child visits an extended day group, then a snack is included in the school meals for children. For children who go on an extension, school meals make up 50% of the daily ration.

Teachers are responsible for the nutrition of children in school. They should clearly organize food intake and monitor children received food at the same time and ate slowly. Why is the correct nutrition of children in school so important? A hungry child simply will not be able to properly absorb the educational material - all his thoughts will only be about food. In addition, if the child does not eat well at school, he will eat at home greedily, chewing on food poorly. This dinner is poorly digested, and therefore useless. In addition, swallowed hastily food can lead to pain and cuts in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

However, even the well-organized nutrition of children in school is not a guarantee that the child will eat normally. If you do not pay enough attention to the baby's nutrition at home, problems with his meals in school. Most often they are related to:

• Legibility in food. I do not want that, I will not ... If at home you can plan a child's diet, excluding from it those foods and dishes that he does not like, then at school no one will do it. The menu is one for everyone, so the child will either have to eat or give up.


• Food allergy and various diseases. With food allergies, not all school food can fit a child. And some diseases (gastritis, diabetes, etc.) require a certain diet, which the school can not always provide. Please note that about a food allergy and any problems with health it is necessary to warn the teacher in advance!

How to ensure the normal nutrition of children in school in this case? Have to give the child I'm taking food with me.. Cooked at home food can either completelyTo replace lunch in the school cafeteria, or simply to become a complement to it. Such a dinner should be tasty and balanced. Drycake in the form of sandwiches will not work. When collecting a child for school, include in his lunch protein food (meat, fish), cereal (cereal, porridge), fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as dairy or dairy products. Also it is necessary to take care of drinking.

There is a probability that the child will be illthere is such a home dinner. How can this be avoided? First, the nutrition of children in the school should include only those products that the child will eat with pleasure. If a child fusses over eating at home, you can still influence it, and he will eventually eat a useful, but not particularly tasty dish for him. At school you do not have such an opportunity, so products from school lunch should be guaranteed to like him.

The Japanese found another way to make sure that the pupils liked their children's food at school. Traditional Japanese school lunch - bento - this is a real work of art. Products for bento (boiled rice, scrambled eggs, vegetables, fruits, sausages, etc.) nicely fit into a special box. To make bento more interesting, the Japanese tint rice with harmless dyes, and from other products cut out interesting figures - flowers, animals and even cartoon heroes. Such a schoolchild will eat with pleasure. Why do not you take this useful experience? Of course, every morning doing bento is somewhat tedious, but even a couple of octopuses made from sausages will cheer your child up and he will eat with appetite.

Proper nutrition of children in school excludes fatty fried foods, too spicy and saltyfood, as well as the use of refractory fats (pork, duck, goose, mutton and margarine). If there is a store or kiosk near the school, the child can buy various harmful food on the changes - chips, croutons, soda, etc. Try to protect him from this: explain that such food is harmful; ask the teacher not to let the children into the store; if necessary, limit pocket money.

Nutrition of children in school is quite topicala problem for many parents. Even if the school in which your child is studying provides meals in the canteen, there is no need to shift responsibility for the ration of the schoolchild to teachers. Always watch what, where and when your child eats.