A huge thank you to everyone who took part in #ISMD2019, sharing practice, posting pictures, promoting healthy, nutritious food and celebrating those who produce and serve it.
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Category: health and wellbeing
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2019 – who makes young people’s lunch in Japan? They do!
Children and young people at a school in Japan help to make and then serve the school lunch themselves.
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2019 – pretty Anime-inspired snack from Japan
Children in a Japanese education centre enjoyed making and eating pretty and fun anime-inspired snacks for lunch.
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2019 – a practical project that works to make sure all children get their free school meals in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
North Lanarkshire Council, Snook, and UrbanTide have secured funding from The Innovation Fund, a collaboration between the Scottish Government and The Hunter Foundation, to ensure they understand the scale and nature of low uptake of school meals in that part of Scotland. Find out more
March 14, 2019March 14, 2019
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2019 – A new programme to improve children’s nutrition and school attendance in Burundi – Tetra Pak
Milk is new on the school menu in Burundi as a part of a growing school food programme. Tetra Pak is supporting our customer, the newly founded local company Modern Dairy Burundi, to help boost the nutrition of 20,000 children and contribute to a positive spiral of health, development and school attendance. The challenge According...
March 14, 2019March 13, 2019
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2019 Blog – If you still think school meals are just about the food, then you haven’t been paying attention. Professor Donald A.P. Bundy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Since the last International School Meals Day there has been a sea-change in the way that the world thinks about school feeding. In 2018, the third edition of Disease Control Priorities (www.DCP-3.org), led by the World Bank with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provided new insights into the return on investing in...
March 14, 2019March 13, 2019
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2019 – Celebrating ISMD In Mozambique
The theme for ISMD 2019 is “Who makes my meal?” The aim is to encourage young people to learn more about where their food comes from. In Mozambique, primary school children in select schools in the Maputo Province understand that their lunch comes from farmers in the United States. The daily fortified, protein-rich corn-soy porridge they...
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2019 – School meals in Northern Ireland
Around 180,000 meals are produced daily for children in schools in Northern Ireland. Meals are served to children of all ages from nursery to post primary and for those pupils attending special schools. In addition there is a catering provision to staff both in schools and out centres. School food is designed to offer children a...
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2019 – favourite foods on the menu for lunch in Wales
At Ysgol Twm o’r Nant in Wales they were serving curry and rice, roast dinner and pasta bake for a hot lunch.
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2019 – a fresh, tasty school lunch from Japan
An Elementary School in Japan had a lunch of bread with apricot jam, milk, vegetable soup, salad and macaroni and cheese gratin. The food was handmade from scratch – and the food on the yellow tray is a lactose allergy version.