Shashlik, meatballs, goulash, borscht. We looked at what they feed children at school and how much it costs.

School nutrition plays a key role in forming healthy habits in children and adolescents, providing them with the necessary nutrients for full growth and development.

Proper nutrition at school not only contributes to improving the physical condition of students but also affects attention concentration, academic performance, and overall well-being. In today's world, where children face various temptations of fast food and unhealthy food, organizing quality school nutrition becomes particularly relevant. This is not just a matter of providing children with food, but an important step towards creating a healthy future for the younger generation. The organization of nutrition in schools in Minsk is handled by the School Nutrition Combine. BELTA correspondents learned how and what children are fed, using School No. 2 in Minsk as an example.

Fifth-grader Nikita Tomashkov and his classmates look forward to school lunch every day. It usually takes place after the 3rd or 4th lesson, by this time active fifth-graders manage to get quite hungry. "I like everything in our cafeteria. Today we have chicken cutlet with pasta - it's very tasty, like at home. I also love buckwheat with sausages. But my favorite, which I would never refuse, is dumplings. Once we were given them with sour cream. Our class ate everything. I wish we had them more often," the boy said, while his friends confirmed, not yet knowing that tomorrow there will be dumplings.

Their class teacher and math teacher, Tatyana Lisovskaya, accompanies the class to the cafeteria every day. The educator assured that the dumplings at school are not only eaten completely but there is also room for seconds. "Children generally eat well. There are favorite dishes, there are less favorite ones, but no less useful. Teachers keep an eye on students to ensure they eat. Sometimes we explain, sometimes we persuade. Overall, we teach them to treat food and bread with care, for this we recall history, the blockade, and talk about hunger, which, unfortunately, is not so rare in the modern world," the educator shared.