OUR DAILY NUTRITIONAL HABITS

I. osnovna šola Celje, Slovenia

BREAKFAST (zajtrk)Breakfast is the most important meal in a day. Most Slovenian people eat it. But there are some people who don't have time or they just simply don’t like to eat in the morning. Breakfast is in Slovenia a meal at around 6.00 and 8.00 am. We eat it before we go to school, work or somewhere else. We call breakfast ''zajtrk'' in our language. The most usual food for this meal is a slice of bread with jam or milk with flakes and coffee or juice.I have breakfast every day. My mother makes my breakfast every morning. Today I’ve eaten bread with Nuttela (chocolate cream) and milk. But a lot of my schoolmates don’t have breakfast. We made a short research at our school about that. We asked kids at our school if they eat breakfast. This is the result:

Breakfast - students of I. OŠ Celje

54,5

45,5 yesno

Because breakfast is so important meal for our health, children at our school can have it at school. But it is prepared just for kids from the first, second and the third class. Others have to wait till 9.35 for the snack. Parents have to pay for school breakfast around 10€ per month and the snack is around 15€

per month.

Sara

LUNCH (kosilo)Many students eat lunch at school (210 students out of 330), but some eat at home. I have lunch at school and I like the food here. We have lunch after school at around 1 o’ clock in our canteen.

We have a really balanced and varied diet and I really like that. I think that our school tries the best to give us healthy life. At weekends I have lunch at home. I think that I eat healthy lunch at home too. Typical Slovenian lunch is: beef soup with noodles, meat, potatoes and lettuce.Our school lunch menu:Monday: Tuesday: soup with porridge; potato soup;fried fish fillet; roast in sauce;potato salad; potato croquettes;carob cake. red beet salad.

Wednesday: Thursday: soup with turnip and smoked meat; soup;puffed rice; stewed beef with gravy hunting;

stewed fruit. pasta; potato salad; apple.Friday: carrot soup with flakes;soya polpeti;potato;salad with beans.

Živa My lunch looks like this when I eat at home.

Dinner (večerja)

Green field represents 43% of students that have dinner from 7pm to 8pm.

Purple field represents a part of 7% students who don't have dinner.

Blue field represents 14% students who have dinner at about 6pm (most healthy

eaters).

Red field represents 36% of students that have dinner at 7pm.

The best time for dinner is between 6pm and 7, maximum 8pm. Our stomachs

can't work late at night because of the digestion, so it will be the best – even

experts recommend to eat early. If you can't sleep well, the cause is right here:

you might eat too late. Even some fruits aren't good to be eaten at night as a

snack, for example an apple is very hard to digest.

Nastja

Nastja’s dinner on:

a.) Monday:(turkey meat, potato, cabbage)

b.) Tuesday: (1 bread of tuna pate)

c.) Wednesday:(strawberry yoghurt)

d.) Thursday:

(goat cheese, tomato, basil and olive oil. My favourite dinner)

Nastja

TJAŠA’S (UN)BALANCED DIETI eat breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner. And of course I eat sweets and snacks too. Here is the food that I eat over a day:

Breakfast: bread with spreads and tea Snack at school: pizza, bread with cheese and ham,

flakes... School lunch: meat, potatoes, salad, desserts, different

juices... Sweets and snacks: ice cream, chocolate, candies... Dinner: flakes, salad, yoghurt, apples...

On Saturdays and Sundays I usually don't eat breakfast because I get up too late. However, during the week I have breakfast. Most of my classmates don't have a balanced diet, because they eat too much of sweets or not enough vegetables and fruit. And sometimes we don't eat breakfast or we skip any meal of the day. But, most of my classmates eat 3 to 4 meals a day. Every day students have apples or pears and sometimes strawberries and many other fruits. At school we get less sweet tea too and some children have breakfast at school.

Tjaša

MEAT (meso)In Slovenia people a lot of people eat beef, pork and chicken or turkey meat. But some people eat lamb, rabbit meat, deer meat too. And some people may not eat pork because of the religion. Two girls in our English class don't eat meat. One started to not eat meat this August, and the other one last summer. All others eat meat.

Most of the students are having meat every day (50 %), or every other day (25 %). And some are eating meat once in a week (25 %).

I asked my schoolmates if they have have tried any other special meat which we don't eat every day:- one tried snails- one tried rabbit meat- one tried roe deer- some didn't tried no specila meat

AND SOME TYPICAL SLOVENIAN MEAT DISHES: Kranjska klobasa (a kind of sausages) Ričet (barley soup): barley, water, salt, garlic, bay leaves, parsley, onion, carrots,

tomatoes, fats, soup cube, flour, smoked pork. Krvavice (blood sausages) – ingredients: pig head, veal lungs, bacon, salt, pepper,

cinnamon, marjoram, cloves, rice, pig blood.

Monika

SNACK (malica) School snack is very important meal in school time.

Students from first to second class got school breakfast and for them is not so important if they eat snack. Students from first to fourth class have snack in a canteen. Students in fifth to ninth class have their snack in classrooms.

Our popular snack on school:

1. Pizza;

2. Čokolino (chocolate flakes with milk);

3. Fish spread;

4. Egg spread;

5. Chocolate doughnut;

… and more

Pizza and chocolate doughnut is not so healthy food, so we eat it just two times in month. Our school food is healthy because we get many different food items. That mean we eat very different vitamins and minerals and other necessary things for healthy life.

Florjan

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES (sadje in zelenjava)They are healthy and important, because they give us vitamins and minerals. We

should eat at least five diferent fruits or vegetables a day. The most popular fruits in

Slovenia are: apples, bananas, oranges and watermelons. Some people don’t eat

meat and live just with fruits and vegetables. They are called vegeterians. We cook

most of the vegetables and eat them alone or with meat.

Typical slovenian fruits are apples, peaches, strawberries,

kaki, cherries and pears.

In our school a lot of students enjoy fruit and vegetables.

Every day after the 4th lesson at 11.30 we get a fruit and on Wednesday we get a

local apple or other fruit founded by European resources. It is more eco-friendly if we

eat food produced locally.

We get some vegetables for snack, usually chopped carrots and green salad.

Students’ favourite vegetables are potatoes, salad, rice and cabbage.

HOW OFTEN STUDENTS EAT FRUIT

Uroš in Vid

Sweets (sladkarije)In our school and in our country almost every person loves to eat sweets. In our school, favorite sweets are candies, for example chocolate bars, lollies…We eat lot of candies. That is not very good because candy has a lot of sugar (carbohydrate) which makes you fat. However, nobody wants to be fat but they eat candy as much as they want. That’s bad. Typical sweet in Slovenia is called »kremšnita«(cream slice). That sweet comes from city called Bled. It is in north-south in our country. The dessert is filled with double cream and is strewed with vanilla sugar.In school we get a chocolate bar once a month.

»Kremšni ta«

Vedran