Hot meals at school are one of the factors in the physical and mental health of the younger generation. It is necessary to pay close attention to this issue. Let's analyze how the organization of hot meals at school is carried out.

Diet

Schoolchildren from Russian educational institutions are expected to have breakfast and lunch. Children attending an after-school group are additionally required to receive an afternoon snack.

Round-the-clock stay of children in boarding schools implies five meals a day. An hour before bedtime, in the form of a second dinner, the guys receive a glass of yogurt, fermented baked milk or kefir.

Breaks between main meals should not exceed four hours.

Employee Requirements

The organization of hot meals involves the observance of the rules of personal hygiene by the employees of the catering department. Only healthy employees who undergo a medical examination in a timely manner in accordance with the instructions and orders in force in the educational institution are allowed to prepare food for schoolchildren. Each employee is required to have a personal sanitary book, which indicates information about past medical tests, infectious diseases, and passing the sanitary minimum.

Hygiene rules

Certain hygiene rules are imposed on employees who prepare hot meals for schoolchildren. They are required to come to the workplace in clean shoes and clothes, leave a hat, personal belongings, outerwear in the dressing room.

Persons who are responsible for hot meals in an educational organization are required to cut their nails short.

Before starting work, they thoroughly wash their hands and put on clean clothes. In case of colds or intestinal disorders, in case of burns or cuts, they are obliged to inform the school administration about this, seek help from a medical institution. The administration of an educational institution has the right to suspend an employee of the school cafeteria from performing official duties if he refuses to seek professional help from a medical institution.

Requirements for the catering department

There are certain requirements for the place where hot meals are prepared for schoolchildren. It is not allowed to smoke, eat, drink alcoholic beverages in the catering department. Before the start of the shift, the medical officer checks the employees of the canteen for the absence of clearly expressed purulent diseases on the skin, and also takes samples of dishes offered to children and employees of the educational organization for examination.

Each school food block should have a first aid kit, which contains all the necessary first aid drugs.

Hot meals are provided only with the permission of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision.

Organization of meals

Hot meals in Russian educational institutions are provided by classes (groups) at big breaks. Their duration should not be less than 15 minutes. In order for the guys to have time to have lunch, at the end of the lesson (5-10 minutes before), the attendants go to the school cafeteria. They set tables for the whole class, observing the rules of personal hygiene. Each class team is assigned certain tables.

According to the rules adopted in each educational organization, the duty is carried out by children over fourteen years old, and the teacher on duty supervises the process.

Hot meals at the school are often organized through the distribution line. The presence of children is strictly prohibited in the production premises of the school canteen. Also, they should not be involved in work that is associated with the process of cooking, cutting bread, washing dirty dishes.

List of Prohibited Products for Educational Organizations

It is strictly forbidden to use for school meals products that have expired, signs of poor quality have been identified. Hot food does not allow the use of leftover food from the previous day. It is also forbidden to use vegetables and fruits in school canteens that show signs of spoilage. Meat and fish for cooking must undergo preliminary veterinary control.

In the list of prohibited foods for children, canned food without labels, with signs of rust, without tightness. The ban applies to non-industrial food products, cakes, pastries with butter cream, mushrooms, kvass, milk (without pasteurization and primary processing). Dishes made from raw smoked sausages and gastronomic products are prohibited in the school canteen. Coffee, energy drinks, alcohol, soda, ice cream from vegetable fats are not provided.

School hot meals should not contain ketchups, hot sauces, pickled fruits and vegetables, hot peppers.

Soups and main courses in the canteen of a general education organization cannot be made from instant concentrates.

Rationality and balance of nutrition

What foods should be used for school meals? The axiom of healthy and balanced nutrition provides for the following rules:

• correspondence of the calorie content (energy value) of the dish to the physiological age needs of elementary school students and adolescents;
• inclusion in the diet of the necessary ratio of the main substances for growth and development;
• the use of foods enriched with vitamins;
• technological processing of products, which allows to ensure the full taste of products while maintaining their value;
• optimal distribution of the daily diet for individual meals.

Important Points

In the canteen of a general educational organization, it is necessary to have an approximate menu for two weeks, which is developed on the basis of the physiological needs of the child's body for nutrients, as well as taking into account the standards approved by the sanitary and epidemiological services and the rules of the institution.

For example, the following products should be included in the daily school menu: vegetables, vegetable and butter, sugar. Twice a week, eggs, cottage cheese, cheese, fish, sour cream are added to dishes.

Assortment of dishes

Breakfast in the school canteen should consist of a snack, a hot dish and a drink. It is also advisable to offer children fruits and vegetables.

In addition to salad, a hot dish, meat or fish with a side dish is served for lunch. As a snack, a salad of tomatoes, cucumbers, sauerkraut or fresh cabbage, beets, carrots is allowed. As an additional side dish, portioned vegetables are allowed. In order to improve the taste of snacks, it is allowed to add nuts, raisins, prunes, apples to the salad.

For dinner, a vegetable or cottage cheese dish, porridge, a drink, as well as poultry or fish are supposed. As a supplement, a fermented milk product is allowed, a bun without butter cream.

If any product is missing, it is necessary to select a replacement for it that is equivalent in nutritional value.

Nutritional norms

They must fully comply with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. For weakened, malnourished children and adolescents, according to the decision of the doctor, additional food may be offered.

If the stay in an educational institution of children and adolescents exceeds four hours, the organization of hot meals is an obligatory element of the work of the school.

In addition to the free sale of ready-made meals, it is allowed to organize a buffet, the assortment of which includes culinary products for an intermediate meal by children and teachers.

The sale of bakery products in the buffet should be carried out in an amount of at least two or three types of pastries. In addition to rich bakery products, schoolchildren are allowed to sell baked goods enriched with vitamin and mineral mixtures (buns with jam, berries, jam).

A business that is built on the basic needs of a person always brings good profits with the right approach. Hot food is no exception. A modern person from childhood spends most of his life outside the home. Kindergartens, schools, children's art houses, sports clubs, enterprises and offices - any institution where people stay for a long time should create conditions that are comfortable for eating.

Previously, there were buffets in schools, in which breakfasts were organized for schoolchildren. Large enterprises established their own canteens with full-time chefs. Today the situation has changed radically. The provision of catering services in various institutions is increasingly being outsourced.

This means that the first persons of a commercial company, the director of a factory or the head of an educational center can conclude an agreement with a company providing services for organizing hot meals. Moreover, the options for implementing such a task can be varied, for example:

1. Creation of a full-fledged canteen of a full cycle on the territory of an educational institution or enterprise.
2. Delivery of hot meals to offices by prior order. In this case, a contract can be concluded with a specific customer for the supply of a certain number of meals during a specified period. The second option is to take orders from office center employees and deliver food on demand.
3. Hot food kiosks on the territory of the enterprise or office complex.
4. A vending machine for various types of food, such as sandwiches and hot coffee from a thermos, designed for self-service.

To provide such services, you need to carefully work out a business plan, which will include equipment costs, menu development, product costs, competitor market analysis, available product distribution channels and advertising campaign costs.

The hot food business is quite well developed in the country, so the competition here is very high. Registration of all permits for this activity takes a lot of time. The work of the entrepreneur is under the strict control of state bodies. But the demand for such services is consistently high. To be successful, you need to find your niche in this market.

Organization of school meals

Providing hot meals to preschool institutions and secondary schools is one of the largest areas that a food business can develop.

A complete balanced meal is the key to successful mental and physical development of a child, therefore today, not only in kindergartens, but also in schools, hot meals are a prerequisite for the operation of an institution.

However, it is quite difficult to conclude a contract for the provision of lunches for educational institutions. This is due to the fact that baby food is strictly controlled by government services for the quality of products and compliance with technological standards for preparation, storage and transportation. Suppliers usually participate in competitive selection, following which the leader who won the tender for hot meals for a particular school concludes an agreement and begins his cooperation with the educational institution.

Another nuance of working with state applications for providing educational institutions with hot meals is that, as a rule, the winner is the one who offered the minimum cost. In this regard, business is often based, in this case, not on quality, but on volumes that bring profit. The menu for schoolchildren is strictly regulated, so sometimes it is simply impossible to meet the specified price and quality parameters.

Those who decide to develop their business in this direction need to purchase good equipment, pass the control of the sanitary service, which will check the quality certificates of the products, the conditions for their storage, preparation and transportation. A prerequisite is the availability of health books for employees.

The mark-up for hot meals for schools is small, since the budget allocated for it is limited. But the supply volumes quickly compensate for the small difference between the cost and the final price of such a product.

This activity can become one of the directions of an existing business and is able to provide a stable income throughout the year.

Organization of corporate catering

Dining in the office is a great opportunity to get a good income even for a small company or a budding entrepreneur. Such a business can be developed in 2 directions. The first option is to become a regular supplier of meals for a particular enterprise. In this case, the menu is agreed in advance. Lunches at a certain time are delivered to the company in the quantity specified in the contract.

The second option is to advertise yourself using handouts (flyers, business cards, leaflets) and electronic promotion methods (website, social networks, contextual advertising), addressing your advertising messages to office workers. This is the main target audience and source of income for the hot food delivery business.

The organization of activities requires the availability of space for cooking, agreements with wholesale suppliers of products. The equipment must be modern and work in the "automatic" mode. Hot food must be delivered using a special thermos built into the machine, or packed in special containers that maintain the temperature regime. For couriers, you can purchase a bag with the properties of a thermos. The cost of the final service depends on the choice of menu and the cost of transporting lunches.

The organization of hot meals at school is a paramount task in ensuring the normal growth and development of the child's body. And most importantly, the food should be of high quality, that is, natural.

The list of products for a balanced diet must include:

1. natural milk;
2. Eggs;
3. Vegetables;
4. Fruit.

The work of the whole organism depends on how correct and balanced the child’s nutrition will be, and this is important, since organs and systems are formed in childhood. After all, a child needs vitamins and minerals. To give everything necessary to children is a state task.

Schools today have special nutritional standards, because schoolchildren need not only to satisfy their hunger, but also to give the brain a chance to get enough. Indeed, for normal immunity, for the supply of oxygen to the brain, high-quality and regular nutrition is required.

Catering in schools

Today, school directors can not grab their heads, solving the problem of how and with what to feed schoolchildren. For example, our company, FOOD kids, has long earned an excellent reputation as a reliable food supplier. Organizing hot meals at school is our forte. The long-term work of the company's specialists has earned positive feedback from regular customers. We supply only fresh products to educational institutions. These are mainly ready-made meals that are designed specifically for children, based on certified standards.

"FOOD kids" is a company that, using only high-quality and fresh food products for children, offers its customers:

• a fully balanced menu for children of different ages, which can be selected on our website;
• used products that are supplied to us by the most reliable suppliers who have been reliable partners for many years;
• preparation of dishes and preparations that are produced in our own workshops. In the preparation of dishes, all the norms for the consumption of vitamins and other essential substances by children are necessarily used. We offer our customers a fully balanced, tasty meal.
• orders are made at affordable prices, which can be afforded not only by large public educational institutions, but also by small schools. It is our duty to provide all children with proper nutrition.

Any adult person involved in the upbringing of a schoolchild understands that an important point is the organization of hot meals at school. It is clear that the child should not receive everything at once at one meal. The law of balanced nutrition implies that on one day children receive proteins, and on the other - calcium. Thus, in a week, the developed menu will allow you to give the child's body everything it needs, and it will receive a full set of vitamins and microelements.

Necessary products for a balanced diet of a student

It is worth considering the rules for taking products containing useful substances that our company adheres to. For example:

• Vitamin A - essential for vision, skeletal system and proper growth of teeth. A normal level of this vitamin in a child's body maintains healthy skin and speeds up wound healing. We offer such products as a supplier of this vitamin: spinach and soybeans, cabbage and sweet bell peppers.
• B1 is a vitamin that regulates carbohydrate metabolism and normalizes the state of the nervous system. This vitamin is especially necessary for those children who are subject to great physical and mental stress, that is, schoolchildren. A large content of the vitamin is found in rye bread and potatoes, lean pork, peas and salmon fish.
• B2 - the growth and development of the child depends on it, since the vitamin contributes to the release of energy from the food that the child takes. In addition, it allows you to strengthen the nervous and immune systems. You can replenish the supply of this vitamin by regularly eating foods such as salmon, milk, cottage cheese, rye bread. A lot of vitamin B2 and young cabbage.
• In order for a child to actively produce cellular energy, a sufficient level of vitamin B6 is necessary. It helps to renew the blood and saturate it with oxygen, which, in turn, is necessary to nourish the brain. Many foods, such as liver, rye bread, contain this vitamin, and their regular use will help to make up for its deficiency in the body.

You can endlessly describe the necessary products, the use of which helps to increase vitality and strengthen immunity. And all of them help in increasing the mental abilities and strengthening the nervous system of children. Thus, in order for development to proceed in accordance with the norms, the child must receive daily all the necessary components, in an amount sufficient for his age.

Food preparation and delivery

The professional organization of hot meals at school is the direction in which our company operates. We are fully aware that the health of children is above all, therefore we offer the most healthy and delicious dishes prepared by the best chefs. And as practice shows, such nutrition increases the ability of children to work. And when children gather at the same table, their cohesion occurs, which creates a healthy psychological environment.

Since the food offered by our company is healthy and complete, unlike fast food, it is noted that schoolchildren stop getting sick and get in good physical shape. More and more school leaders are turning to us for cooperation. And this is not only because of the desire to provide children with a high level of performance, but also because it is cost-effective.

It is clear that at home it is quite easy to provide a child with proper nutrition, but at school it is much more difficult. Our company, being a leader in corporate catering, offers various types of catering, including the organization of hot meals in schools. For example:

• Organize a canteen on the territory of the school, where students can eat only the freshest food and refresh themselves during the school shift.
• Deliver to school ready-made meals prepared by our chefs, experts of the highest level. All meals are prepared with fresh ingredients. We deliver food in special boxes designed by manufacturers for transporting hot meals. A buffet is organized and food is distributed to schoolchildren there.
• We can cook the selected dishes in our workshops, and then at the appointed time, special couriers will deliver hot meals to the school, where the distribution of dishes to schoolchildren will be organized. This is the most economical option for organizing hot meals for schoolchildren.

Whichever option is chosen, we can guarantee that all selected dishes will be cooked to a high standard and delivered promptly and on time, which will be specified in the contract.

Today, when choosing a school for their child, many parents pay attention to how food for children is organized in an educational institution. And of course, the argument in favor of one or another school is the availability of hot meals. The ability to feed a child tasty, healthy and inexpensive is the most important aspect. And our company will do everything possible to provide children with a complete, balanced diet, tasty and healthy.

Norms for transporting children are regulated by the current legislation, in particular, the requirements of the sanitary and epidemiological station SP 2.5.3157-14 and Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 17, 2013 N 1177, “On approval of the Rules for the organized transportation of a group of children by buses”. Much attention is paid to the nutrition of children on the road: it has a number of mandatory requirements, aimed at maintaining the health of the children and providing comfortable conditions for movement.

Key points

For citizens who have not reached the age of majority, meals are necessarily planned if the duration of the trip exceeds 4 hours. The time between meals should not exceed 4 hours, in addition, young travelers are provided with bottled water with a capacity of 0.5 liters. On the way, it is possible to use juices in special packaging that provides for long-term storage.

Hot meals when transporting children are mandatory if the travel time exceeds 24 hours. During a short trip, pupils are given dry rations from products approved by the SES.

The recommended calorie content for younger students is 2000-2100 kcal / per day, for middle and high school children - 2500-2550 kcal / per day. It is important to maintain the correct balance of nutrients: the balance of carbohydrates, fats and proteins should be 4:1:1. According to the energy component, the segmentation of the daily ration is decomposed into the following parts: 30% for the first and last meals, 40% for lunch.

Dry ration

The set of food products includes products with a long shelf life that do not deteriorate under normal temperature conditions. These include:

• water, juices, nectars, fortified drinks in 200-500 ml packaging;
• fresh fruits and vegetables, always washed;
• hard cheeses in vacuum packaging for making sandwiches;
• nuts, dried fruits, mixtures of seeds and cereals;
• flour products without cream;
• tea, cocoa, coffee drinks packaged.

Perishable products, gastronomic meat products, sausages, dairy group (except milk and cream for long-term storage in individual packaging), home-made dishes, desserts containing cream, hard candy are strictly prohibited.

Hot meals in transit

When traveling by rail, children are fed in specialized dining cars. Hot meals for children transported by bus are organized in public places that specialize in serving this age group. The diet includes:

• confectionery and bakery group without cream;
• vegetable and milk soups;
• side dishes;
• meat and fish dishes;
• fresh vegetable salads;
• compotes, kissels, juices.

The process must comply with the general principles of full-fledged hot meals in preschool and school institutions. The use of damaged food products, expired, signs of poor quality is excluded. Meat, offal, eggs, milk that have not passed veterinary control cannot be used in the preparation of ready meals. Excluded the use of meat of wild animals, eggs of waterfowl.

Catering is organized by travel companies, companies authorized by the FPC, bus carriers. In the latter case, prior approval of the place where children eat is necessary: ​​the name of the institution, address, telephone number are indicated.

About the benefits of hot food

Many factors influence the state of human health. One of the most important is nutrition.

Modern scientists have found that the main eating disorders are: an excess of carbohydrates and fats of animal origin, a deficiency of vegetables, fruits and berries, as well as a violation of the diet, lack of hot meals.

Adults need to remember: school-age children should eat 4-5 times a day, hot meals should be present in the diet. During the day, students should consume at least two liters of liquid - soups, fruit and vegetable juices.

Basic rules of nutrition: variety, moderation and timeliness. It is very important that the child has a full breakfast, that he has a hearty lunch at school, that he has an afternoon snack at about five o'clock, and dinner a few hours before bedtime.

Breakfast is the most important and basic meal of the day - much better than a bun or a sandwich; it allows the child to replenish the energy supply, because from 4-6 hours of being at school, the child loses a lot of calories. Also, observations showed that at school, in the team, the child eats with appetite. High-calorie hot breakfasts provide long-term performance of schoolchildren and have a positive effect on their physical development.

The school menu includes cereals, pasta, dairy products, meat, fish, salads, fresh vegetables, tea, compote. It should be noted that the high mental load of schoolchildren leads to the fact that the need for vitamins and microelements increases. If the food lacks vitamins, then the child may suffer from beriberi. His memory and performance deteriorate, the growth process is disrupted.

School meals are rich in vitamins that are involved in the metabolism of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts; stimulate the growth of the body; improve the protective properties of the skin, affect the activity of the nervous system, in particular the cerebral cortex; regulate tissue respiration; activity of the nervous system.

Lunch is the second most important meal of the day. The only thing better than soup for lunch is soup. Boiled, soft and lean meat is useful for a child. Also in favor of the soup is the abundance of vegetables, which ideally should be about five types, and the fact that this is a dietary and healthy dish for the stomach. The use of only the main dish does not cause sufficient separation of gastric juice, food lingers in the digestive canal for a long time, undergoes fermentation, and irritates the mucous membrane. At the same time, any food should be not only freshly prepared, but also warm. Heat is always an additional source of energy, no matter where it comes from. And in winter, hot food is a help to the body in self-heating.

At school, for lunch, children can be offered borscht, pickle, vegetable soup, as a second course it can be cutlets with a side dish (porridge, mashed potatoes), goulash with a side dish or steamed fish dishes. Be sure to serve a vegetable salad with the main course, most often it is fresh cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, and, of course, children are offered to drink a hearty lunch with tea, compote. Such a menu will help the child save energy for the second half of the school day.

Many years of observational experience of doctors and teachers have shown that students who do not consume hot food during the school day get tired faster, complain more often of headaches, fatigue, stomach pain, bad taste in the mouth, bad mood and decreased performance. In addition, according to statistics, stomach diseases among school-age children take the second place after diseases of the musculoskeletal system.

Hot meals in the school canteen are designed to solve the problem of observing the diet. So that the student would not have breaks between meals for more than 4 hours, which is very harmful for the digestive system of the child. In short, more and more evidence speaks in favor of mandatory hot meals for all students during their stay at school.