What do schoolchildren like to eat for breakfast?

Actually, neither. The favorite dishes for students of Moscow schools were nuggets with baked potatoes, cheesecakes with toppings and dumplings. These are the results of the monitoring conducted by the Expert Advisory Council of the Parents’ Society under the Department of Education and Science of the City of Moscow.

Every year, school catering combines adapt the menu of student canteens to the tastes and needs of students. But, no matter what new appears in this menu, all dishes must be, firstly, tasty, secondly, nutritious, thirdly, balanced in carbohydrates, proteins, fats and other microelements, that is, cooked according to the recommendations nutritionists and doctors.

According to the monitoring data of the Council of the Parents’ Society, this year the most popular dishes among children, in addition to the above three, include: pancakes, pancakes, pizza, fishballs, meatballs, croissants, muffins, frittata with cheese and ham. By the way, different soups are also popular with children, for example, schoolchildren are happy to eat Far Eastern soup with red fish, Kuban soup, Novgorod cabbage soup, Moscow borscht, hodgepodge, vegetable puree soup and minestrone.

According to Tatyana Khremuchkova, a member of the Parental Advisory Council, with the introduction of the new menu, more and more schoolchildren began to eat in canteens rather than bring food from home.

“Of course, you can’t force a child to eat healthy food – you need to make sure that he wants it himself,” said Tatyana Khremuchkova. “Therefore, the menu took into account the wishes of the children and made it very diverse. At the same time, all dishes are prepared using safe methods: boiled, baked or stewed, preserving useful substances.

By the way, for several years, school students and their parents have been able to take part in compiling menus for school canteens. Therefore, the guys got the opportunity not only to choose breakfast and lunch from several options, but also, for example, add sauces to side dishes or refuse them, put sweet toppings in cheesecakes or pancakes, make their own salad from fresh and boiled vegetables, salt food on their own. taste.

Mona Platonov.