KULINARIX ...eats and is healthy.
Our initiative to improve nutrition in Upper Franconian daycare centers. For detailed information on how the program works, please contact our project partner, the Platform for Nutrition and Physical Activity (peb).
KULINARIX is our program designed for daycare centers throughout Upper Franconia to actively improve children’s dietary habits and health awareness from the time they start daycare through the end of preschool. Nutrition specialists assess the individual needs of participating facilities and then implement ongoing projects over a period of at least two years. These may include parent-child cooking classes, lectures, staff training, training for caterers, as well as many joint activities with the children on the topic of food and drink.
Our goal is to teach children the basics of a healthy and happy lifestyle in a fun and engaging way.
With our approach, which is tailored to the specific needs of each individual daycare center, we have consistently encountered parents, caterers, and daycare staff who are beaming with joy and brimming with ideas. So far, our program has included everything from small parent-run centers with just 15 children to large facilities caring for up to 160 children. “In total, we currently reach around 1,000 children and their families in the Kulmbach, Bayreuth, Lichtenfels, and Bamberg regions. The daycare centers are run by the Protestant and Catholic churches, AWO, and Caritas, as well as parent-led initiatives,” says our project partner, the Platform for Nutrition and Physical Activity (peb).
Individual concepts
It is evident that the focus on nutrition that we have set is manifold: "It is particularly important to us that we do not impose a rigid concept on the participating day-care centres, but rather provide support and impulses at precisely those points where the respective day-care centre partners see a need," explains Yola Klingel, managing director. The action plans developed together with the day-care centres include a wide variety of content: From staff training for the educational and technical staff to father-child cooking courses, sugar exhibitions, workshops for parents and/or children, bread box consultations, updates of the day-care centre concepts, round tables with the food providers, dealing with eating types, optimising the menus, the introduction of a common breakfast, the design of standards for meals, the increase of children's participation, the optimisation of the eating situation, nutritional education campaigns, offers for the improvement of staff health up to sensory and enjoyment training, everything is included and there are no limits to the imagination. The feedback from the participating institutions: This is how to make health promotion both fun and tasty!
More day-care centres welcome!
All day-care centres in Upper Franconia that see a need for optimisation in the areas of food, catering, nutrition education, participation, parental work and meal design are invited to contact the foundation team.
Detailed information on the program can be found at our project partner, the Platform for Nutrition and Physical Activity (peb) .