Meals in the kindergarten are an important learning arena.
The adults participate during mealtimes by engaging in meaningful conversations and by eating together with the children. We are a lunchbox‑free kindergarten, so we provide breakfast, lunch, and fruit. We serve warm lunches three times a week—every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Breakfast varies between cereal, bread meals, and oatmeal porridge.

We focus on:

• Learning about the connection between food, the body, and health.
• Becoming familiar with the names of food items, their origin, and their uses.
• Allowing children to prepare their own sandwiches, which can promote both learning and a sense of mastery.
• Having children participate in setting the table and cleaning up after meals.
• Using shared sensory experiences related to food: tasting, smelling, seeing (colors, shapes), feeling (weight, surface, consistency), and hearing (crunching, slurping).
• Learning to recognize hunger, thirst, and fullness.
• Using meals and cooking activities to support language development and curiosity about food.
• Introducing mathematical concepts through cooking, such as counting, sorting, weighing, and measuring.

We provide a varied diet, bake our own bread, and prepare much of the food together with the children. We have kitchen duties where children help set the table and clean up after meals.

We aim to focus on reducing food waste, and plant‑based foods and fish are central elements (sustainable development).