95% of schools have joined the municipality's healthy eating program
In the 2021/2022 school year, 95% of schools joined the healthy eating program "A Minha Merenda" launched by the municipality in January 2020, after a study to assess the nutritional quality of the snacks that children from kindergartens and elementary schools took to school revealed that the snacks had twice as many calories, twice as much fat and three times as much salt as recommended, present in processed products such as cakes and juices.
The program "A Minha Merenda" was created to counteract this reality. A completely free measure for the neediest children (belonging to tax bracket A or B) that has reinforced the supply of healthy food in public schools in the municipality, constituting an added value in the context of school social action and support to families. The implementation of this new school snack service did not try to exclude the already existing offers (milk and school fruit), but to complement them with the provision of a healthy snack for the morning break.
And there were more than 1200 children who consumed this school year, daily, the school lunch.
In the next school year, 2022/2023, parents will be able to order the school lunch for their children directly on the SIGA platform, until 4 pm of the business day before its consumption. The snack of the day can be chosen or, alternatively, bread with butter.
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