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Attracting children to school lunches should be the national cuisine

How to convince a student to have lunch is a question that worries almost every parent

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Attracting children to school lunches should be the national cuisine

In Udmurtia, for example, the school menu includes overcooking and tabani. This is a type of national pastry, which is prepared at home only on big holidays. The second Udmurt schoolchildren eat together with Kystybay, the national cake. In some schools of Chuvashia, national sharttan and huran dolls are served - dumplings with cottage cheese and potatoes. St. Petersburg as usual amazes with creativity: some school cafeterias here have been turned into thematic spaces - there is even a dining room for Hogwarts.

In one of the schools of Yakutsk you can watch the preparation of food online. Parents and children at any time will see how cut their favorite salads and baked cakes. An unusual experiment, starting in the Arctic Circle, can spread to all educational institutions of the country: schoolchildren are interested to see how cooks work, providing them with food.

And in Tatarstan, for example, there are already “smart” canteens. At the entrance to the room there are special terminals. They can assess the quality of dishes - like or dislike. Cooks see the statistics and adjust the menu: if the dish does not like, it is removed or changed the recipe. For parents, an app. Here they depend on what the child ate and what his balance is.

In some rural schools, the format of eco-dining rooms has taken root. At educational institutions there are subsidiary farms. The harvest goes straight to the dining room or is laid for storage for the winter. All farm, right from the garden - this is not about expensive food, but a completely ordinary school reality.

Source: Московский комсомолец ↗

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