The main aim of school meals is to maintain the health and work performance of students.
School meals should complement the food that the student eats at home. School meals are designed to promote healthy eating, develop food and taste habits and teach good eating habits.
In Mikkeli, school meals are planned to ensure that the above objectives are met.
On average, a school meal contains one third of the daily nutritional requirementsprovided that the student consumes all parts of the meal on offer.
School meals take into account students allergies and other illnesses, ethical choices and religious particularities.
Special diets are provided for students with special dietary needs.
Special diets are prepared only on the basis of a declaration to the kitchen by the school nurse.
The need for special diets is reviewed at least at the beginning of each school year.
It is the responsibility of the student to ensure compliance with the diet and to contact the kitchen staff. If a specially prepared special diet is not eaten for more than two weeks without the absence being reported to the school kitchen,
the preparation of the special diet will be suspended. In this case, a new discussion with the school nurse
will be necessary to recover the special diet.