Kohaliku Toidu Päev Salme Põhikoolis /Local Food Day in Salme Elementary School
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Saaremaa schools promote healthy meals
26.02.2013 21:46
Margus Muld, Saaremaa
Five Saaremaa schools are participating in the international programm Growing Gastronauts, which promotes healthy meals and the use of local ingredients in school lunches.
Today, the students at Salme Elementary School had Shrek Soup, colourful yogurts and a log cake Spotted Dog for their lunch, all made using mostly ingredients grown in Saaremaa, relayed the Estonian Public Broadcasting evening news.
In fact, the Salme school cafeteria was transformed into a restaurant for the day. The students served the food and the main dish along with the fried fish was prepared by a restaurant chef.
“The students were counting down the minutes to enter the cafeteria and see the green soup that was being prepared. They were really very curious,“ said the director of the school , Marika Pütsep.
Head chef Toomas Leedu from the GoSpa restaurant said that the soup was made from green peas and from the fresh Baltic Sea Herring that he bought from the marketplace in the morning. „We let the children make the dessert themselves, which they really enjoyed,“ added Leedu.
The events of the day gave the school and kitchen staff a lot of new ideas for the future.
“We will probably need to offer more training sessions for the school cooks, teachers and students in some form. Today was like a training course. There are more workshops planned for the school cooks in this programm, " said the director Pütsep.
Mare Poopuu, Head of Administration, at Salme school, said that the garlic and onion came from the school garden, as well as the herbs, which they dry or freeze.
"The apples come from the local orchard Kadastiku Apple Orchard, the meat comes from the local abbatoire, Fish has been somewhat problematic. Today we are having local fish and believe that this will lead to negotiating with local suppliers so that the fish will be local in the future, " said Poopuu.
The Growing Gastronauts project leader Sulvi Munk said, that school kitchens could use more local ingredients, which are abundant in Saaremaa, though in reality they are using little.
On of the main aims of the Leader supported project is that food from the local farms make it to the plate of the school children. At the same time and of no less importance the workshops will promote healthy eating and establishing school gardens.
