Choose Your Lunch

הבעיה
Children can not choose the meal they are going to eat at their school restauran
The solution
An app where kids can choose what to eat for every day of the week
The prototype
The App lets kids choos their own food for the internal restaurant.
The societal actors
Schools, parents, teachers, food providers, local food producers

Hosted by SALL , contributed by Vilagreens on 7 July 2022

Teacher: Vilagreens
גיל התלמידים
4-5
Physical education, health, wellbeing
נושא הפרוייקט
Choose your Meal!

The app is offered to parents, kids and the school. Its about the possibility for kids to choose what they want to eat at the internal restaurant of the school. They choose between 6 possibilities for each day. They choose the main course and also the dessert. Every time they choose a meal for that day, it remains locked for the rest of the week, so they can't select it again for that week. The next week they will be able to choose it again or not, depending on the nutricionist plan for the month.

Vilagreens is a vertical farm in Vilafranca del Penedes, near Barcelona. We produce microgreens, and we can grow different kind of vegetables. We are starting to make activieties on one school to let kids learn to grow food in a vertical format.

Objetivo

We want kids to feel they can choose. We try to avoid the feeling of being told what to eat. 

Cocreation

On the 3rd stage we plan to involve other stakeholders, like food producers, such as bakery, vertical farms, pasta makers

Implementation

Stage 1:

- Menu of the nutrionist is added to the base

- Kids choose first course and dessert (weekly)

- Live stats shows the results, and wich food is wining.

- Food selected for a day are not available for the rest of the week and it remains locked until next week.

Stage 2:

- Instead of 24 first course options and 24 dessert options for the month, there is going to be 30

- Each food adds different points. Healthier foods gives more points.

- There is an award for those who selected healthier foods most of the times.

Stage 3:

- We add other stakeholders

- Kids start to be part of the production of the food they are going to eat: Example: Some produce bread, other microgreens or vegetables, other pasta, vegetable milks, etc

-The school can start to be part of a conversation aboaut nutriton and the importance of the production of food. 

- The school radio tell the audience the menu for the week.

- Competitions and food sharing between schools.

 

We think with this app, we can make kids be part of the decission to pick healthier foods. We want to generate the habit of choosing what your body needs.

We think with this app, we can make kids be part of the decission to pick healthier foods. We want to generate the habit of choosing what your body needs.