Organic food for everyone: This is how sustainable food succeeds in day-to-day daycare!

Organic food for everyone: This is how sustainable food succeeds in day-to-day daycare!

Sendling-Westpark, Deutschland - It was an exciting workshop that was recently held by the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (Aelf) Ebersberg-Erding under the motto "Small Budget but organic". It was shown here that even with a narrow wallet, high -quality, regional and ecological ingredients can be used in the common catering. The bio-top chef Christopher Hinze provided impressive ideas on how to get high-quality dishes onto the plates through planning, creativity and strategy without overrap the cash register. Wochenanzeiger reports .

The participants, including kitchen ladder from daycare centers, were enthusiastic about the prepared dishes such as the Berglinsen-Bolognese and the Auberginen-Cordonbleu. These recipes should not only promote the appreciation for organic food, but should also be considered an excellent examples of everyday diet. Oecotrophologist Silvia Hilger also pointed out that the desire to integrate organic food into community catering is constantly growing, not only out of conviction, but also due to upcoming legal requirements.

the legal framework and the challenges

The rapidly growing market for organic food is supported by the requirements by 2025, which oblige state institutions to obtain at least 50 percent of the food used from regional and biological production. This is a step in the right direction to enable healthy and sustainable meals in shared catering, as well as the Federal Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture reports .

Again daily eating around 16 million people in community catering facilities, including six million children and adolescents in daycare centers and schools. It is therefore crucial that nutrition is predominantly vegetable and seasonal and high quality standards meets. The Federal Government's nutritional strategy plans to bind the DGE quality standards by 2030 in the facilities of the community catering.

innovative solutions and support

In order to meet these challenges, the AELF offers support with calculation aids, tips for planning food and information about funding opportunities. A valuable digital tool - "our school meal" - will be available free of charge for schools in Germany from September 2024 and should help to establish balanced and sustainable offers. The Federal Center for daycare and school catering also offers support for institutions that want to use organic food, including through advice and recipe ideas.

Another interesting aspect from the community catering is the concept of "nudging". This behavioral psychological technology can help to promote healthy and sustainable food decisions, for example, by promoting healthy dishes or emphasizing in colored output stations. The acceptance and success of such measures are greater the more, the more participants-from school children to chefs-in the process so that the canteen is perceived as "its". Potential has to make healthy and sustainable food accessible and attractive for many people.